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Australia fielding was more improved then all previous matches. In the round matches Australia drops so many catches. You said only saving runs and didn't talk about ROHIT SHARMA catches taken by Travis Head. This catch was very difficult and from here I think match direction changes. ROHIT SHARMA was looking very dangerous. He was in extreme aggressive form. If he had play full powerplay then 300 runs is expected. BTW both team played well and no player should be blamed for India lost. Many team didn't even reached to qualifing round.

As dominant as the Indian batsmen have been throughout the World Cup, no one expected the Indian team to face such a batting disaster against Australia in the final. India even won the first round match against Australia very easily. So everyone thought that the host India team was the favorite in the final match.

Apart from India's three experienced batsmen, Rohit, Kohli and Rahul, none of the batsmen can bat well. I expected a somewhat responsible performance from Suryakumar. But as usual he also cannot play big innings. The bowling of the Australian bowlers was very controlled. At the same time we must appreciate the captaincy of Pat Cummins. Pat Cummins has managed to use the right bowler at the right time. This is why the Indian batsmen were under a lot of pressure.

India definitely fell short on the runs in the World Cup, and they have only themselves to blame for not winning on their home turf with the talented lineup they've got. Honestly, their bowling attack is something else. With Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, and Mohammed Siraj, no team can easily score 300. In a World Cup Final, chasing 300-plus runs would have been a tough ask for Australia. If things had played out differently, the scenarios could have been better and favored India.

The final match was really incredible. Australia showed a surprise that day.  India played very well throughout the entire ICC World Cup and in every match India won the matches by a huge margin of runs. But coming to the final, Australia showed a good game, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra jadeja, SKY all these players were dismissed by only a few runs.  In the game of cricket I think India has the most fans and most people predicted that India is going to win the World Cup this year. But India came to the final and showed a very poor performance. Australia had a very good preparation due to which Australia was able to play so well in the final. And they won this World Cup

Australia fielding was more improved then all previous matches. In the round matches Australia drops so many catches. You said only saving runs and didn't talk about ROHIT SHARMA catches taken by Travis Head. This catch was very difficult and from here I think match direction changes. ROHIT SHARMA was looking very dangerous. He was in extreme aggressive form. If he had play full powerplay then 300 runs is expected. BTW both team played well and no player should be blamed for India lost. Many team didn't even reached to qualifing round.

Yes ,you are right. Indian team performed very bad. In my opinion,if target would be 300+ then it would be very difficult for Australia. In Final match, 300 score is big score to chase. But India can't make handsome score to defend. When Australian 3 wickets fell ,it seemed India will caught Australia  batsmans under 200 score but Travis Head and Labuschagne played very well and they made a good partnership and they snatched the match from Indian players.India is best team but Australia also proved that they are king not in only home ground but in also Indian ground,Ahmadabad. Mohammed Shami didn't performed well in Final match.

Pakistan Cricket Board changed everyone’s job before the tour of Australia. The captain of Pakistan cricket has been changed, the captaincy award goes to Shaheen Shah Afridi and Shan Masood, and few days before PCB changed their chief selector. The new chief selector of the Pakistan cricket team is Wahab Riaz and after that Pakistan changed its head coach and the new head coach of the Pakistan cricket team is Muhammad Hafeez.

All the senior players of the Pakistan cricket team take the responsibility of managing the team. All thing has been refreshed so let’s see how the Pakistan team performs in the tour of Australia.

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The problem with India was that once they lost the wicket of Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli and KL Rahul became over-defensive and were scoring just 2-3 runs per over. And once Kohli got out, Indian batting lost their balance and were losing wickets quite frequently. And for this match, India didn't had any bowling allrounders. They didn't included Ashwin or Shardul in the XI and as a result the Australians were able to wrap up the Indian innings without much effort.

Australia fielding was more improved then all previous matches. In the round matches Australia drops so many catches. You said only saving runs and didn't talk about ROHIT SHARMA catches taken by Travis Head. This catch was very difficult and from here I think match direction changes. ROHIT SHARMA was looking very dangerous. He was in extreme aggressive form. If he had play full powerplay then 300 runs is expected. BTW both team played well and no player should be blamed for India lost. Many team didn't even reached to qualifing round.

If we remember the final of the Asia Cup, we can see there that India bowled out Sri Lanka by 60 runs in the final match. But who knew that his streak would happen in the 2023 World Cup final with India vs Australia. By winning the Asia Cup, the confidence of the Indian team increased many times. India has won ten consecutive matches with power. But in the final match, the Indian team was bowled out for just 240 runs. If Shubman Gill had not been out, Australia would have been able to target around 300 runs in the final match. Australia bowled brilliantly in the final match. Australia's fielding was amazing. If we watch the game carefully, many players have done great fielding. Australia team has saved around 40 runs by fielding. The Australian team tasted its sixth championship thanks to their excellent bowling and batting.

Yes ,you are right. Indian team performed very bad. In my opinion,if target would be 300+ then it would be very difficult for Australia. In Final match, 300 score is big score to chase. But India can't make handsome score to defend. When Australian 3 wickets fell ,it seemed India will caught Australia  batsmans under 200 score but Travis Head and Labuschagne played very well and they made a good partnership and they snatched the match from Indian players.India is best team but Australia also proved that they are king not in only home ground but in also Indian ground,Ahmadabad. Mohammed Shami didn't performed well in Final match.

Given the fact that Rahul bats in middle order, his strike rate (90.76) looks awfully low for me. Others who bat in the same position had much higher strike rate when compared to Rahul. Examples are Shreyas Iyer (113.24), Ravindra Jadeja (101.69) and Suryakumar Yadav (100.95). You can claim that there isn't much of a difference between strike rate of 90 and 100-110, but IMO, it can decide the outcome in close matches. I am not saying that Rahul was the reason why India lost the final. All I am saying is that he had the chance to win a trophy for India and he failed in that.

Many people are judging him by the performance of the final match. Most of the people is praising Travis Head only for the victory of Australia, but Labuschagne had also great contribution to it. Australia would have been in trouble if he got out by playing in the aggressive mode instead of playing slowly. It is the nature of some cricket fans to judge the players in this way. KL Rahul played well in the whole tournament, but he was under pressure and a bit nervous in the final match.

Yes ,you are right. Indian team performed very bad. In my opinion,if target would be 300+ then it would be very difficult for Australia. In Final match, 300 score is big score to chase. But India can't make handsome score to defend. When Australian 3 wickets fell ,it seemed India will caught Australia  batsmans under 200 score but Travis Head and Labuschagne played very well and they made a good partnership and they snatched the match from Indian players.India is best team but Australia also proved that they are king not in only home ground but in also Indian ground,Ahmadabad. Mohammed Shami didn't performed well in Final match.

Yes ,you are right. Indian team performed very bad. In my opinion,if target would be 300+ then it would be very difficult for Australia. In Final match, 300 score is big score to chase. But India can't make handsome score to defend. When Australian 3 wickets fell ,it seemed India will caught Australia  batsmans under 200 score but Travis Head and Labuschagne played very well and they made a good partnership and they snatched the match from Indian players.India is best team but Australia also proved that they are king not in only home ground but in also Indian ground,Ahmadabad. Mohammed Shami didn't performed well in Final match.

Throughout tournament? He made fastest Indian hundred, and in one games he had good judgement about caught behind where other mates were unsure of, took DRS and he was right. In keeping he was excellent too (except Finale), several great catches.

Yes ,you are right. Indian team performed very bad. In my opinion,if target would be 300+ then it would be very difficult for Australia. In Final match, 300 score is big score to chase. But India can't make handsome score to defend. When Australian 3 wickets fell ,it seemed India will caught Australia  batsmans under 200 score but Travis Head and Labuschagne played very well and they made a good partnership and they snatched the match from Indian players.India is best team but Australia also proved that they are king not in only home ground but in also Indian ground,Ahmadabad. Mohammed Shami didn't performed well in Final match.

Given the risk involved, I don't think that the BCCI has anything to do with this. Their share from the ICC media rights for 2024-27 (38.5% of $3 billion, i.e around $1 billion) is only a fraction of the IPL media rights for the same period. Given this, I don't think that the BCCI will try to intervene in the tournament format. The risk involved is simply not worth it. I am 100% sure that Disney-Star is behind the new proposal. They have a feeling that they paid far more for the 2024-27 cycle than they should have and now they are trying to find some excuse to cancel the deal.

As mentioned in my previous post that Hotstar does have a monopoly in OTT market, close to 60 Million paid subscribers so no argument there whatsoever.

Let me put it this way, why i think they overpaid (not saying that they can't make money, just focusing on overpaid issue)

- Do you think that casual or even hardcore cricket fans watch every match in the ICC tournament? 99.99% would say no because fans love to watch their respective team (sometimes they even miss the action) and marquee, knockout encounters like Semifinals/ Finals.

-There are total of 179 matches in 4 ICC tournaments and India is playing 26 matches in 4 ICC tournaments then we have additional 8 semifinals and 4 finals (knockouts).

- From the broadcaster's point of view if they are targeting the Indian market only, then they have only 26 (Ind) + 8(Semis) + 4(finals) = 38 Important matches out of 179 in the ICC tournaments.

- If we look at important matches only (38) then according to $3.02 Billion bid it every match is worth close to $80 Million.

- And if we are looking at every ICC match which is 179 then every game is worth approx $16.8 Million. Point to note that 1 IPL match worth is $13-ish million, that's a recent benchmark.

Remember 179 - 38 = 141 non India/ non knockouts.

Now tell me which broadcaster will pay close to $17 million bucks for Aus vs SL, Pak vs SL, SA vs BAN or even Eng vs Aus for Indian or any market?

I think the way India batted was really bad compared to other matches. Especially if a few batsmen could have performed well, they could have scored more runs, but it was not in India's luck. But I think that if India had given the target of more runs, the Australian team could have met that target. Because the Australian batsmen came to the field with the intention of beating India by any means, and they fulfilled that objective and became the champion by defeating India by a huge margin. The way six-time world champions Australia played the final match against India was really interesting to watch. Where the Indian team was undefeated for the entire ten matches, it is truly worth seeing that the Indian team defeated Australia in the final match and won the champion trophy. However, every player in the Indian team was disappointed yesterday, both batting and bowling were bad which led to their loss, but many people were happy to see India lose.

The Ashes series win against England