After a dream run in the World Cup, India finally exited the show piece event to a well balanced Australian side at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia played a near perfect match and outplayed Dhoni's men with both bat and bowl. Steven Smith continued his golden form from the summer piling more agony to the Indian players, scoring a superb century of just 89 balls.
The match was sided towards Australia as soon as they won the toss. India's best chance of winning was batting first and posting 300 on the board.
With 18 overs to play Australia were cruising at 197/1 and a score of 350 was on the cards. India pulled it back somewhat but conceded too many in the final overs owing to a cameo from Mitchell Johnson-27*(9).
India were off to a flier-thanks to Dhawan and Rohit but after the southpaw was caught of Hazlewood by Maxwell at deep cover- India didn't recover. Kohli was caught trying to pull a Johnson delivery.
By the time MS came to the crease the captain had realised he needed to stay till the end as his departure would lead to an embarrassing defeat. Captain cool played a good knock of a run-a-ball 65 on what could be his last world cup match for India. The pressure of the chase and the occasion was too much for the India batsmen.
India was never in the fight and were bundled out for 233 in the 47th over losing the match by 95 runs to the Aussies.
India were unable to beat the hosts in a gruelling four and a half months in Australia.
All said and done we must congratulate MS Dhoni for the excellent turn around in our Indian side after the drubbing in the test series and triangular series, taking 77 wickets out of a possible 80.
India played flawless cricket in the World cup and one off day in the office came in the semi finals against the best team in the competition. It is indeed difficult to beat the Aussies in their home turf but one would have expected a better fight by the defending champions.
The youngsters must have gathered a truck load of experience and come back from the Southern hemisphere as better players and hopefully can apply them in the coming tournaments.
The final will be a cracker between the Black Caps and Aussies but Australia seems to be the clear favourites! Hope it turns out to be a cracker of a match.
Cheers!
The match was sided towards Australia as soon as they won the toss. India's best chance of winning was batting first and posting 300 on the board.
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| The toss was crucial giving Aussies the edge |
India were off to a flier-thanks to Dhawan and Rohit but after the southpaw was caught of Hazlewood by Maxwell at deep cover- India didn't recover. Kohli was caught trying to pull a Johnson delivery.
By the time MS came to the crease the captain had realised he needed to stay till the end as his departure would lead to an embarrassing defeat. Captain cool played a good knock of a run-a-ball 65 on what could be his last world cup match for India. The pressure of the chase and the occasion was too much for the India batsmen.
India was never in the fight and were bundled out for 233 in the 47th over losing the match by 95 runs to the Aussies.
India were unable to beat the hosts in a gruelling four and a half months in Australia.
All said and done we must congratulate MS Dhoni for the excellent turn around in our Indian side after the drubbing in the test series and triangular series, taking 77 wickets out of a possible 80.
India played flawless cricket in the World cup and one off day in the office came in the semi finals against the best team in the competition. It is indeed difficult to beat the Aussies in their home turf but one would have expected a better fight by the defending champions.
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| Could be Dhoni's last World Cup match for India |
The youngsters must have gathered a truck load of experience and come back from the Southern hemisphere as better players and hopefully can apply them in the coming tournaments.
The final will be a cracker between the Black Caps and Aussies but Australia seems to be the clear favourites! Hope it turns out to be a cracker of a match.
Cheers!
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