In Sydney the second semi-final match between Australia and India was played and India lost the match by a margin of 95 runs. The loss though does not make India a bad team but it is clear that Australia in home conditions is a superior team. Having born and brought up on those pitches and grounds they are naturally adept to playing in those conditions.
Probably Australians had a psychological advantage over India as well since in the entire season India has not won any match against Australia. After Australia chose to bat at SCG India did manage to get the first wicket pretty early and cheaply. However Steve Smith who has scored tonnes of runs against Indians in the Test Series once again proved to be thorn for Indians . Smith and Finch build a big middle over partnership at over 5.3 runs an over.
Australia did lose lots of wickets in the later part of the innings in trying to make the scoring rate faster. However a deep batting line up ensured that the rate of scoring was maintained. Australia ended up with a mammoth total of 329 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. In reply India did start off solidly and well in the first 10 overs India scored 55 runs. 16 runs came of the 10th over. By the 13th over India's score reached 76/0 and India looked good with Shikhar Dhawan going after the bowling.
But from the last ball of the 13th over the carnage started. Shikhar Dhawan who was playing beautifully till now ended up hitting a ball straight down the throat of Glenn Maxwell. Virat Kohli came to the crease and played 5 dot balls in the 14th over, off the last ball of the 14th over he scored a single. The next over played by Virat was a maiden.
Virat seemed to be under pressure having made just 1 of 12 balls . The next ball he got he tried to pull a ball that was outside off stump but the ball bounced too much took the top edge of the bat and was out caught by the wicketkeeper. After that the Australians bowled well and Indians kept losing wickets at regular intervals and struggled to keep up with the scoring rate . By the 40 th over India had lost 5 wickets and needed more than 12 runs per over.
Although Dhoni was there in the crease and did play a few good shots he could do very little and India lost the match by a big margin. Cricket is a highly condition dependent game . The same Australian team lost all 4 test matches when they came to play a test series in India.
But there is no reason for Indian fans to despair , India did win 7 consecutive games on the trot. The bowling has been exceptional. Only today India managed to get a mere 7 Aussie wickets whereas in the previous World Cup games India had got the oppositions all out every time they took the field.
The kind of performance showed by Australian team makes them hot favourites to win this world cup on home ground . The MCG is a large ground so miss hits there would end up in the hands of the fielders.
This is the first time the world is going to witness a trans-Tasmanian rivalry in the final of the Cricket World Cup. The two nations Australia and New Zealand have tremendous rivalry in every sport they play . The final is likely to be a cracker of a match with Australia being firm favourites.
Probably Australians had a psychological advantage over India as well since in the entire season India has not won any match against Australia. After Australia chose to bat at SCG India did manage to get the first wicket pretty early and cheaply. However Steve Smith who has scored tonnes of runs against Indians in the Test Series once again proved to be thorn for Indians . Smith and Finch build a big middle over partnership at over 5.3 runs an over.
Australia did lose lots of wickets in the later part of the innings in trying to make the scoring rate faster. However a deep batting line up ensured that the rate of scoring was maintained. Australia ended up with a mammoth total of 329 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. In reply India did start off solidly and well in the first 10 overs India scored 55 runs. 16 runs came of the 10th over. By the 13th over India's score reached 76/0 and India looked good with Shikhar Dhawan going after the bowling.
But from the last ball of the 13th over the carnage started. Shikhar Dhawan who was playing beautifully till now ended up hitting a ball straight down the throat of Glenn Maxwell. Virat Kohli came to the crease and played 5 dot balls in the 14th over, off the last ball of the 14th over he scored a single. The next over played by Virat was a maiden.
Virat seemed to be under pressure having made just 1 of 12 balls . The next ball he got he tried to pull a ball that was outside off stump but the ball bounced too much took the top edge of the bat and was out caught by the wicketkeeper. After that the Australians bowled well and Indians kept losing wickets at regular intervals and struggled to keep up with the scoring rate . By the 40 th over India had lost 5 wickets and needed more than 12 runs per over.
Although Dhoni was there in the crease and did play a few good shots he could do very little and India lost the match by a big margin. Cricket is a highly condition dependent game . The same Australian team lost all 4 test matches when they came to play a test series in India.
But there is no reason for Indian fans to despair , India did win 7 consecutive games on the trot. The bowling has been exceptional. Only today India managed to get a mere 7 Aussie wickets whereas in the previous World Cup games India had got the oppositions all out every time they took the field.
The kind of performance showed by Australian team makes them hot favourites to win this world cup on home ground . The MCG is a large ground so miss hits there would end up in the hands of the fielders.
This is the first time the world is going to witness a trans-Tasmanian rivalry in the final of the Cricket World Cup. The two nations Australia and New Zealand have tremendous rivalry in every sport they play . The final is likely to be a cracker of a match with Australia being firm favourites.
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