Australia won the ODI World Cup for the sixth time: Beat India by 6 wickets in the final

Australia won the ODI World Cup for the sixth time: Beat India by 6 wickets in the final, Travis Head scored 137 runs on 120 balls.
Team India has lost only the final match in this World Cup. Before this, the team won 10 consecutive matches. Australian captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bowl first.
India has suffered a crushing defeat by 6 wickets in the final of the World Cup 2023. On Sunday, Australia won the ODI World Cup title for the sixth time. This defeat reminded Indian fans of the 2003 World Cup final. 20 years ago the Kangaroos beat us by 125 runs in Johannesburg.

After losing the toss and batting first, Team India was all out for 240 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Australian batsmen achieved the target of 241 runs by losing 4 wickets in 43 overs. Travis Head scored a century of 137 runs, while Marnus Labuschagne scored an unbeaten 58 runs. Earlier, Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets, while captain Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood got 2 wickets each.

Scorecard of India-Australia final match

Australia lost 3 wickets in Powerplay-1
Chasing the target of 241 runs, the Australian team scored 15 runs in the very first over. Mohammed Shami, who came to bowl the second over, got David Warner caught by Kohli in the slips on the very first ball. Mitchell Marsh, who came at number-3, scored runs quickly, but was sent to the pavilion by Jasprit Bumrah in the 5th over. Bumrah also made Steve Smith LBW in the 7th over. The team scored 60 runs in 10 overs even after losing 3 wickets with a score of 47 runs.

Indian innings

Indian team all out on 240, Kohli-Rahul's fifty
Batting after losing the toss, Team India was all out after scoring 240 runs in 50 overs at the PM Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Team India has been all out for the first time in this World Cup.

For the Indian team, Virat Kohli scored 54 runs and KL Rahul scored 66 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma gave a fast start to India by scoring 47 runs in 31 balls, but the rest of the players could not continue this pace. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets for the Australian team. Pat Cummins got 2 wickets.

India lost 5 wickets in death overs
India was all out in the death overs. Australia maintained dominance in the last 10 overs. During this period, the biggest over was only 8 runs. After 5 wickets fell, wickets were lost in the 42nd, 44th and 45th overs. After this, the responsibility of scoring runs fell on the bowlers along with Suryakumar Yadav. Due to continuous fall of wickets, Indian players could not score much runs. Surya was also out in the 48th over. The team added 43 runs in the last 10 overs and lost 5 wickets.

Australia prevented partnership from forming in the middle overs
Australia was completely in the game between 11 and 40 overs. After losing 2 wickets in the powerplay, India also lost the third wicket in the 11th over. Kohli tried to control the innings and made a partnership of 67 runs in 109 balls with KL Rahul.

As soon as both of them started scoring runs rapidly, Kohli was out. Jadeja also could not play for long. In these overs, Australia bowled overs from part-time bowler Travis Head and the Indian batsmen could not take advantage of it. The biggest over in the middle overs was only 7 runs. India scored 117 runs and lost 3 wickets in these overs. Middle over game in few points

Rahul's slow fifty, hits only one boundary. KL Rahul scored a slow but useful 66 runs. He scored his second half-century of this World Cup. This was Rahul's 17th half-century in his ODI career. Rahul scored 66 runs in 107 balls. In this innings, Rahul hit only one four, he completed all the remaining 62 runs by running.