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I thought India would be able to score 400+ but they didn't play such faster. However, they still will win I think. The highest chase in World Cup is probably 329 by Ireland against England in 2011 world cup.

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[AB de Royse777]

Australia had a very slow start. They need to accelerate their run rate. The way they are going, it's gonna create pressure sooner or later. I did not see the out of Fince may be it was because of the pressure.

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Australia had a very slow start. They need to accelerate their run rate. The way they are going, it's gonna create pressure sooner or later. I did not see the out of Fince may be it was because of the pressure.

It was a run out. Australia is in full pressure. Warner is playing shit provided that the target is huge enough. Required run rate is going high and it's getting more harder for them now.

[AB de Royse777]

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It was a run out. Australia is in full pressure. Warner is playing shit provided that the target is huge enough. Required run rate is going high and it's getting more harder for them now.

It's the 18th over and still there are no sign to push the run rate. Australian team management really needs to pass some message to Warner so that he can start attacking. Imagine he gets out with this strike rate. Usually he does not play slow like this.

[FIFA worldcup]

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I am still hopeful that this match will not be single sided and Aussie can still win this match.  They need to bat well.
An entertaining run chase is waiting for us.  

No matter Australia wins or lose, I am confident that this will be an entertaining chase.

It will be huge run chase, if AUS suppose to manage that will be a record chase in the World Cup history. I am sure they are capable to manage that sum total as its batting pitch. India should win here, anyway. BTW! Worst fielding by Australian side.

So far, Aussie are going well with 127 for the loss of only 1 wicket. If they keep their wickets intact, i am sure they will  reach very close to Indian total.
Warner is playing well and should make a century today.

Edit: As soon as i posted this, Warner is Out. 

[Thanasis]

Australia had a very slow start. They need to accelerate their run rate. The way they are going, it's gonna create pressure sooner or later. I did not see the out of Fince may be it was because of the pressure.

They still need 224 in 156 balls which looks achievale but on ODI standard its still a huge number upfront,but only good thing for AUS is they have 9 wickets in hand so they can hit hard at later end of their innings but don't take it too longer,you need to make it now to win the match.

For India they need to take one or two wickets now to put more pressure which makes the required run rate to climb more and more higher.

[AB de Royse777]

I am not sure if Warner helped the team or put them in danger. Warner was playing too slow where he needed to strike hard. Now he is gone and the new batsman is in pressure. Require rate is going up very fast.

Australia needs someone to score very quick to release some pressure from the team.

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I am not sure if Warner helped the team or put them in danger. Warner was playing too slow where he needed to strike hard. Now he is gone and the new batsman is in pressure. Require rate is going up very fast.

Australia needs someone to score very quick to release some pressure from the team.

Warner presence was more of a physiological pressure on the opponents and also he had the ability to turn his slow run rate to run a ball in no time.
Team Australia need to push up score fast now without losing wickets and i think India grip on the match is now tightened.

[AB de Royse777]

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Warner presence was more of a physiological pressure on the opponents and also he had the ability to turn his slow run rate to run a ball in no time.
Team Australia need to push up score fast now without losing wickets and i think India grip on the match is now tightened.

Australia hasn't score any boundary since the last 5 and half overs. They badly need to look at the require run rate. This is not the Australia we usually see.
To be honest I am seeing spirit in Indian team. Australian's are psychologically down now.

[webtricks]

I am not sure if Warner helped the team or put them in danger. Warner was playing too slow where he needed to strike hard. Now he is gone and the new batsman is in pressure. Require rate is going up very fast.

Australia needs someone to score very quick to release some pressure from the team.

I don't think there was anything wrong with Warner's inning. He was trying to build a match winning inning but failed to do so. Still Australia have 132 balls to make 200 runs. It is tough job but still possible. Australia have quality lineup and only 2 wickets down.
But being true Indian fan, I havs full faith in Bumrah-Bhuvi. They won't give away too much in last overs like Aussie did in first innings.

[Maheshkumar_Hrangkhawl]

Advantage with India right now. For Australia, the required run rate has gone past 10 runs per over, and now it will be very difficult to get to the target as David Warner has got out. On top of that Usman Khawaja is batting extremely slowly, with less than 18 overs remaining. His strike rate is around 60, and at this point three times that much is required for a win.

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Advantage with India right now. For Australia, the required run rate has gone past 10 runs per over, and now it will be very difficult to get to the target as David Warner has got out. On top of that Usman Khawaja is batting extremely slowly, with less than 18 overs remaining. His strike rate is around 60, and at this point three times that much is required for a win.

It seems that Aussies have given up and they are going to save the run rate and not after winning the match.
I do not like their defensive approach.

[Thanasis]

Five wickets down still need 115 runs in 10 overs.

Seems like Australia winning streak stopped by India.Anyone still believe Aussie can turn this game into their side?

[AB de Royse777]

Australia needs 106 runs from 54 balls.

No hope left for Australia. Maxwell gone. Now it's matter of time for India to win this match. Congratulations for those who picked India in the pool. India is going to have a comfortable win.

[UmerIdrees]

Australia needs 106 runs from 54 balls.

No hope left for Australia. Maxwell gone. Now it's matter of time for India to win this match. Congratulations for those who picked India in the pool. India is going to have a comfortable win.

Australia next match is with Pakistan so it means that Australia will have to face a consecutive two defeats in the world cup. 

[Thanasis]

Australia needs 106 runs from 54 balls.

No hope left for Australia. Maxwell gone. Now it's matter of time for India to win this match. Congratulations for those who picked India in the pool. India is going to have a comfortable win.

Australia next match is with Pakistan so it means that Australia will have to face a consecutive two defeats in the world cup. 

Like your confidence but I am not sure that AUS will go down two in a row and they are better team compared to current Pakistan squad.

[Pffrt]

Finch have some wrong call on the batting line up in my opinion. Khawaja was playing at 3, but today he was called at 4. I don't see any reason to call Smith in his place. Khawaja has a good performance in his last matches. However, I think Finch called Smith at 3 for having a faster score, if so, then calling Khawaja at 4 was also a wrong call.

Am I leading the pool  
Vishnu still has the highest margin point, sad he isn't in the top scorer. I made mistake locking matches. SA is going to lose against WI probably but I picked SA and locked the match.

Congratulations team INDIA, go ahead.

Australia next match is with Pakistan so it means that Australia will have to face a consecutive two defeats in the world cup. 

If so, Pakistan will be the champion at the end, like as you said at the beginning of this pool. Let's see. I would also be happy to see Pakistan winning the world cup with this squad.

[UmerIdrees]

If so, Pakistan will be the champion at the end, like as you said at the beginning of this pool. Let's see. I would also be happy to see Pakistan winning the world cup with this squad.

I too wish that Pakistan should be  the World cup winner but there are better teams in this world cup.
Pakistan team progress will depend a lot on how they play in the next two matches against Australia and India.

[JSRAW]

Finch have some wrong call on the batting line up in my opinion. Khawaja was playing at 3, but today he was called at 4. I don't see any reason to call Smith in his place. Khawaja has a good performance in his last matches. However, I think Finch called Smith at 3 for having a faster score, if so, then calling Khawaja at 4 was also a wrong call.

Somehow Khawaja doesn't strike me as an ODI batsman, have seen him many times, even he makes 100. his strike rate is terrible. I considered him as a Test Batsman, and in a shorter format he doesn't make quick runs, opposition team now know that he struggles with short pitch bouncer even in Batting friendly wickets, actually short pitch bouncer rattles him, the same thing happened in the match against Windies and similar story against India.

[Pffrt]

Finch have some wrong call on the batting line up in my opinion. Khawaja was playing at 3, but today he was called at 4. I don't see any reason to call Smith in his place. Khawaja has a good performance in his last matches. However, I think Finch called Smith at 3 for having a faster score, if so, then calling Khawaja at 4 was also a wrong call.

Somehow Khawaja doesn't strike me as an ODI batsman, have seen him many times, even he makes 100. his strike rate is terrible. I considered him as a Test Batsman, and in a shorter format he doesn't make quick runs, opposition team now know that he struggles with short pitch bouncer even in Batting friendly wickets, actually short pitch bouncer rattles him, the same thing happened in the match against Windies and similar story against India.

Well, if for this reason he wasn't sent at 3, by anyhow he wouldn't be called at 4 as well. That's what I exactly mentioned. I'm not agreed with you though, a slower but longer start at the opening can help a team much better than a short faster start.