ICC WORLD CUP 2023 DISCUSSION THREAD!

[HelliumZ]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

[eaLiTy]

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Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

The match is getting closer, at one moment it looked liked Australia will run away with the match scoring easily and once the spinners started to bowl, the match changed upside down, Australia already lost their 5th wicket and the only positive for Australia is that Steven Smith is still in the crease and they still need 73 runs to win and the match is getting interesting with the way the pitch is behaving .

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But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Second semi finals, a bowling wicket and all the batsman are struggling and now the pitch is spinning a lot and not sure everyone expected South Africa to be in the final that easily as they always choke under pressure but now the match is getting interesting because the spinners are troubling the Aussies but they can just chip away easy singles and win the match.

[BitcoinsGreat]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

The match is almost won by Australia, if you see their team playing so just imagine the final of Australia vs India, and I can bet of thousand dollars that we are unable to see the South Africa vs India final.

Australia's current run rate is five and their required is just 2 runs in an over. Suddenly, Maxwell lost his wicket on one score. People had very hopes with him, now the South African has been charged after this big wicket, it’s a greater than greater wicket for South Africa, the team of South Africa back in the match after this wicket

[HelliumZ]

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Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

The match is getting closer, at one moment it looked liked Australia will run away with the match scoring easily and once the spinners started to bowl, the match changed upside down, Australia already lost their 5th wicket and the only positive for Australia is that Steven Smith is still in the crease and they still need 73 runs to win and the match is getting interesting with the way the pitch is behaving .

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But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Second semi finals, a bowling wicket and all the batsman are struggling and now the pitch is spinning a lot and not sure everyone expected South Africa to be in the final that easily as they always choke under pressure but now the match is getting interesting because the spinners are troubling the Aussies but they can just chip away easy singles and win the match.

South Africa managed to put a lot of pressure on Australia but unfortunately the amount of runs South Africa scored especially the target of 213 runs is not enough for a semi-final especially against a favorite team like Australia, this small target is not an issue. Moreover, if the pacers succeed in the same way as the spinners are succeeding in today's bowling pitch, something could have been different in this small target of Australia and South Africa today.

[JSRAW]

Also, i don't think discussions about personal achievements are completely fair. The dude has scored more than half of his tons in chasing targets successfully and no other player comes close. The kind of consistency he provides in the ODI format is unmatchable so i believe fans should cut him some slack.

I don't disagree with you either. I know he is one of the best batters of all time. I know about his achievements and what he did. But I guess you got what I pointed out. I was talking about this particular match which is the Semi Final of the World Cup and what I believe is, that this is not the match where some one should play for their personal achievements.

I do not have any problem if he plays with 50-strike rate. I don't have any problem even if he plays with 50 strike rates in the World Cup Final too. But that does not look good when someone pick such match for personal achivement. You might have different point of view.

Well, Indian fans are biased for their cricketing heroes but they are not braindead for sure, i understand you used this as an example but still no matter how big a player is if he's playing with 50 or 70 SR in ODI then he'll face criticism, and for the right reasons. One example is see fans react to Kohli in the T-20 format, he faces criticism over his SR regularly but in the ODI virtually never.

Also, in the cricket field context matters, like in low scoring matches where every batter is shitting bricks. One batter scoring 80 odds runs with 50 SR is pure gold. On the other hand, if it's an absolute road then even 117 runs with 103 SR looks okayish (Kohli), not bad enough to attract any criticism but not as great as 105 runs with 150 SR (Iyer). 

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For a few moments it looked like we'd have some tight finish but now we are back to normalcy.

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Ah 1 more down, can we expect some twist?

[cryptoWODL]

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Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

The match is getting closer, at one moment it looked liked Australia will run away with the match scoring easily and once the spinners started to bowl, the match changed upside down, Australia already lost their 5th wicket and the only positive for Australia is that Steven Smith is still in the crease and they still need 73 runs to win and the match is getting interesting with the way the pitch is behaving .

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But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Second semi finals, a bowling wicket and all the batsman are struggling and now the pitch is spinning a lot and not sure everyone expected South Africa to be in the final that easily as they always choke under pressure but now the match is getting interesting because the spinners are troubling the Aussies but they can just chip away easy singles and win the match.

South Africa managed to put a lot of pressure on Australia but unfortunately the amount of runs South Africa scored especially the target of 213 runs is not enough for a semi-final especially against a favorite team like Australia, this small target is not an issue. Moreover, if the pacers succeed in the same way as the spinners are succeeding in today's bowling pitch, something could have been different in this small target of Australia and South Africa today.

No one thought that South Africa would perform badly today.Today South Africa seemed to have played with pressure from the start which saw them bowled out for just 213 against Australia.213 runs is nothing for a team like Australia today Australia will win the match easily and they will face India in the final.South Africa have lost in the semi-finals many times before but their dream of reaching the final was not fulfilled again this time.
At the moment, Australia have collected 175 runs for 6 wickets.South Africa still have a chance to win if they bowl properly.

[Suzume]

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Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

The match is getting closer, at one moment it looked liked Australia will run away with the match scoring easily and once the spinners started to bowl, the match changed upside down, Australia already lost their 5th wicket and the only positive for Australia is that Steven Smith is still in the crease and they still need 73 runs to win and the match is getting interesting with the way the pitch is behaving .

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But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Second semi finals, a bowling wicket and all the batsman are struggling and now the pitch is spinning a lot and not sure everyone expected South Africa to be in the final that easily as they always choke under pressure but now the match is getting interesting because the spinners are troubling the Aussies but they can just chip away easy singles and win the match.

South Africa managed to put a lot of pressure on Australia but unfortunately the amount of runs South Africa scored especially the target of 213 runs is not enough for a semi-final especially against a favorite team like Australia, this small target is not an issue. Moreover, if the pacers succeed in the same way as the spinners are succeeding in today's bowling pitch, something could have been different in this small target of Australia and South Africa today.

No one thought that South Africa would perform badly today.Today South Africa seemed to have played with pressure from the start which saw them bowled out for just 213 against Australia.213 runs is nothing for a team like Australia today Australia will win the match easily and they will face India in the final.South Africa have lost in the semi-finals many times before but their dream of reaching the final was not fulfilled again this time.
At the moment, Australia have collected 175 runs for 6 wickets.South Africa still have a chance to win if they bowl properly.

The current situation of the match is 190 runs of 6. We can see that Australia gonna win.23 runs needed in 66 balls . T Head played a great innings oi 62 runs in 48 balls and S.Smith played 30 runs in 62 balls. Both of they are hight runner of Australia batting innings in this math. Let's see what's hepoen.


Australia maybe selected for final and fight against India in final. Advance congratulations team Australia for final selection. See you in final agents favorite team India.

[leonair]

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Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

The match is getting closer, at one moment it looked liked Australia will run away with the match scoring easily and once the spinners started to bowl, the match changed upside down, Australia already lost their 5th wicket and the only positive for Australia is that Steven Smith is still in the crease and they still need 73 runs to win and the match is getting interesting with the way the pitch is behaving .

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But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Second semi finals, a bowling wicket and all the batsman are struggling and now the pitch is spinning a lot and not sure everyone expected South Africa to be in the final that easily as they always choke under pressure but now the match is getting interesting because the spinners are troubling the Aussies but they can just chip away easy singles and win the match.

South Africa managed to put a lot of pressure on Australia but unfortunately the amount of runs South Africa scored especially the target of 213 runs is not enough for a semi-final especially against a favorite team like Australia, this small target is not an issue. Moreover, if the pacers succeed in the same way as the spinners are succeeding in today's bowling pitch, something could have been different in this small target of Australia and South Africa today.

No one thought that South Africa would perform badly today.Today South Africa seemed to have played with pressure from the start which saw them bowled out for just 213 against Australia.213 runs is nothing for a team like Australia today Australia will win the match easily and they will face India in the final.South Africa have lost in the semi-finals many times before but their dream of reaching the final was not fulfilled again this time.
At the moment, Australia have collected 175 runs for 6 wickets.South Africa still have a chance to win if they bowl properly.

South Africa has shown a very good performance in this year's Cricket World Cup. But today's match was not expected to lose with Australia like that. Because this match with Australia was not very difficult for them. Australia now need only 20 runs but they still have 10 more in hand.  So it was said that Australia is going to lose South Africa very badly today. After winning today's match, Australia will move behind South Africa to the second position.

[Essential10]

David Miller's individual 101 helped South Africa build resistance to chase down Australia with a target of 213 runs. Had pat cummins not missed the catch in the 45th over, the game could have taken a different turn. In the end, Australia secured the final by winning by 3 wickets. Australia collected 74 runs in the power play for two wickets and this power play run helped Australia to win. This time, Australia vs South Africa met three times in the semi-finals of the World Cup, but South Africa could not win even once. Congratulations to the Australian team for making it to the finals.

[Jateng]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Australia won by 3 wickets against South Africa 215/7 in 2nd semi final, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins won the match for Australia at last. Now It's an India vs Australia-Final of world cup. South Africa lose yet another semi-final. Travis Head played a excellent knock for Australia 62 off 48 balls. There was fight from both South  Africa and Australia sides, match turning point when tabriz Shamsi took the big wicket of Maxwell but the runs on the board are very short 213 for South Africa to defend.

[noormcs5]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Australia won by 3 wickets against South Africa 215/7 in 2nd semi final, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins won the match for Australia at last. Now It's an India vs Australia-Final of world cup. South Africa lose yet another semi-final. Travis Head played a excellent knock for Australia 62 off 48 balls. There was fight from both South  Africa and Australia sides, match turning point when tabriz Shamsi took the big wicket of Maxwell but the runs on the board are very short 213 for South Africa to defend.

I would say that South Africa tried their best both in their batting and bowling to get out of the crisis but eventually failed in the end. They were 4 wickets quickly down at 24 runs only. The match could have been lost straight from there but David Miller fought back and made 101 runs and eventually helped South Africa some run to bowl with.

Then their (South Africans) bowlers did a great job, took the match to the 47th over, and made every run count for the Australian batsmen, There was no free scoring and it was a great game to watch, a low scoring match but still a thriller to watch. One team has to lose and one team has to win, South Africa was on the losing side but they fought really hard.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Australia won by 3 wickets against South Africa 215/7 in 2nd semi final, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins won the match for Australia at last. Now It's an India vs Australia-Final of world cup. South Africa lose yet another semi-final. Travis Head played a excellent knock for Australia 62 off 48 balls. There was fight from both South  Africa and Australia sides, match turning point when tabriz Shamsi took the big wicket of Maxwell but the runs on the board are very short 213 for South Africa to defend.

The South African bowlers made the match competitive despite giving away a  target of just 213 runs. However, Australian  batsmen batted very  well in the first 10 overs. He scored 74 runs in the first 10 overs. Travis Head's innings of 62 off 48 balls kept Australia in control of the match. However, the match became competitive due to  the poor performance  of the middle order. I expected  a more responsible performance from the Australian batsmen. With such a performance, Australia will not be able to do well against India in the final match. To do well in the final, Australia's batsmen need to do better. India is a very strong team. If the batsmen perform so erratically against India, the attempt will be by a big margin to the Australian team.

[Bureau]

So, it is confirmed now that India would be playing against Australia in the finals. Looks like the South African dig their own grave by choosing to bat first. Holding on to a liability like thier captain, who hasn't played a good knock in the tournament. Then the last would be thier management which decided to keep him as a captain.

Australia has a past of snatching the cups in the finals. I hope they don't get another chance. It is like the New Zealand team which has been defeating the Indian team from 2003 until yesterday when they lost. A reminder the New Zealand team has not won the cup and niether have the African team.

[LDL]

So, it is confirmed now that India would be playing against Australia in the finals. Looks like the South African dig their own grave by choosing to bat first. Holding on to a liability like thier captain, who hasn't played a good knock in the tournament. Then the last would be thier management which decided to keep him as a captain.

Australia has a past of snatching the cups in the finals. I hope they don't get another chance. It is like the New Zealand team which has been defeating the Indian team from 2003 until yesterday when they lost. A reminder the New Zealand team has not won the cup and niether have the African team.

Five times South Africa have faced each other in the semi-finals and each time they have lost in the semi-finals. Losing it in the semi-final is not acceptable at all. Why did South Africa perform so badly in the semi-final when they batted first in each game and scored 400 runs while yesterday they started the game with 4 wickets falling for 40 runs. However, I do not want to make any further comments about the degradation of South Africa.
Australia will face India in the final after defeating South Africa in tomorrow's match. However, every team is very important in the final, but if you consider it from that point of view, if the five-time world champions Australia pass the final, they will win the final. But from this side, India will get the advantage of the home ground in their own home ground, so they also have a chance. I can only hope that India will go to the World Cup this time as a neighboring country. I wish India win the World Cup.

[Jateng]

Proteas had one strength in this WC, batting first and outbat their opponent and putting them out of the game convincingly but here comes the knockout and they are back to their usual stuff of choking.

Dream run and tons of potential but looks like their journey ends tonight and seems to be a one sided victory for Australia, only a miracle or some ridiculous bowling spell could save the SA.

Tabraiz Shamsi and kesev Maharaj struggling hard to save South Africa. But in the end, no one can say whether South Africa will be able to save the last. But everyone expects South Africa to win the semi-final and become the champion with India. But why fate dealt so cruelly with South Africa no one can say.

Australia won by 3 wickets against South Africa 215/7 in 2nd semi final, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins won the match for Australia at last. Now It's an India vs Australia-Final of world cup. South Africa lose yet another semi-final. Travis Head played a excellent knock for Australia 62 off 48 balls. There was fight from both South  Africa and Australia sides, match turning point when tabriz Shamsi took the big wicket of Maxwell but the runs on the board are very short 213 for South Africa to defend.

The South African bowlers made the match competitive despite giving away a  target of just 213 runs. However, Australian  batsmen batted very  well in the first 10 overs. He scored 74 runs in the first 10 overs. Travis Head's innings of 62 off 48 balls kept Australia in control of the match. However, the match became competitive due to  the poor performance  of the middle order. I expected  a more responsible performance from the Australian batsmen. With such a performance, Australia will not be able to do well against India in the final match. To do well in the final, Australia's batsmen need to do better. India is a very strong team. If the batsmen perform so erratically against India, the attempt will be by a big margin to the Australian team.

I think Turning Points for Spinners Shamsi crucial dismissals of Australian bastmen including Glenn Maxwell for a duck. South Africa Spinners Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi 2-42 in a low scoring game and fast bowlers Coetzee 2 for 47 , causing trouble for Australia middle order bastmen. South Africa's early struggles, recording their lowest 10-over score in 15 years, but the Miller brilliant century, reached the South Africa total to 212. Australia top class bowler performance Wickets for Mitchell Starc 3-34 and Josh Hazlewood 2-12.

[Sithara007]

I think Turning Points for Spinners Shamsi crucial dismissals of Australian bastmen including Glenn Maxwell for a duck. South Africa Spinners Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi 2-42 in a low scoring game and fast bowlers Coetzee 2 for 47 , causing trouble for Australia middle order bastmen. South Africa's early struggles, recording their lowest 10-over score in 15 years, but the Miller brilliant century, reached the South Africa total to 212. Australia top class bowler performance Wickets for Mitchell Starc 3-34 and Josh Hazlewood 2-12.

Keshav Maharaj was the one who made Australian batsmen struggle. He ended up with figures of 10-0-24-1. He tied down the Aussie batsmen and also picked up the crucial wicket of Travis Head (top-scorer for Australia yesterday). Tabraiz Shamsi picked up two wickets, but he has expensive. And it was perplexing to see Marco Jansen not being used. He only bowled 4.2 overs. So far in this tournament, he was the best bowler for South Africa and it was surprising to see him not being used during yesterday's match. 

[cryptoWODL]

Five times South Africa have faced each other in the semi-finals and each time they have lost in the semi-finals. Losing it in the semi-final is not acceptable at all. Why did South Africa perform so badly in the semi-final when they batted first in each game and scored 400 runs while yesterday they started the game with 4 wickets falling for 40 runs. However, I do not want to make any further comments about the degradation of South Africa.
Australia will face India in the final after defeating South Africa in tomorrow's match. However, every team is very important in the final, but if you consider it from that point of view, if the five-time world champions Australia pass the final, they will win the final. But from this side, India will get the advantage of the home ground in their own home ground, so they also have a chance. I can only hope that India will go to the World Cup this time as a neighboring country. I wish India win the World Cup.

Cricket analysts say that South Africa is the "Chockers" team.South Africa is perhaps the only team to reach the semi-finals five times and never reach the final.South Africa have scored 400 plus runs in almost every match in the previous matches of this World Cup but in the semi-finals they have had their worst performance.Had David Miller not scored a century in the semi-final, it might have caused a bigger disaster for South Africa.One thing I noticed is that if Australia reach the semi-final or the final they become more formidable and every player of theirs performs well.
Now all eyes are on the final match whether Australia can win their sixth World Cup while India can win their third ODI World Cup.

[Patrol69]

David Miller's individual 101 helped South Africa build resistance to chase down Australia with a target of 213 runs. Had pat cummins not missed the catch in the 45th over, the game could have taken a different turn. In the end, Australia secured the final by winning by 3 wickets. Australia collected 74 runs in the power play for two wickets and this power play run helped Australia to win. This time, Australia vs South Africa met three times in the semi-finals of the World Cup, but South Africa could not win even once. Congratulations to the Australian team for making it to the finals.

South Africa failed to score the runs they needed to win against Australia. South Africa could not set up a good target against Australia but they tried to win the match by setting a target of 213 runs but due to the fielding between the fielders, South Africa may have lost this match to Australia. If the players are fielding like this at such a crucial time in a match, it would be foolish to take anything else out of that team. The result of this match might have gone in South Africa's favor if the South African fielders had not dropped easy catches to the Australian batsmen towards the very end of the game. The first reason why South Africa lost this match was batting failure and the second reason was poor fielding. If South Africa could have batted a little better and fielded a little better, then maybe South Africa would have played the final against India on the 19th.

[Sithara007]

Cricket analysts say that South Africa is the "Chockers" team.South Africa is perhaps the only team to reach the semi-finals five times and never reach the final.South Africa have scored 400 plus runs in almost every match in the previous matches of this World Cup but in the semi-finals they have had their worst performance.Had David Miller not scored a century in the semi-final, it might have caused a bigger disaster for South Africa.One thing I noticed is that if Australia reach the semi-final or the final they become more formidable and every player of theirs performs well.
Now all eyes are on the final match whether Australia can win their sixth World Cup while India can win their third ODI World Cup.

Team balance is simply not there in South Africa. Out of form players are pushed in just because of the quota system. The problem is that when one such player is pushed in, that results in poor performance not just from that player, but other players also come under pressure and perform poorly. One example is that of Temba Bavuma. His lack of form disrupted the balance of South African batting. Other batsmen such as Quinton de Kock are unable to play freely because Bavuma gets out usually during the initial powerplay and there is a need to stabilize the innings after that.

[synchronym]

Australia won yesterday's match by 3 wickets Congratulations to Australia team for reaching the final. But in yesterday's match, if the South African batsmen could have increased a little run, if they could have given a target of 250 runs to Australia, then I would say that South Africa would have won the match yesterday. It really feels bad for South Africa that they have reached the semi-finals five times but they have not made it to the final once. It is very painful for South Africa. South Africa give Australia a target of 212 runs. South Africa bowled brilliantly in the target of 212 runs. Australia lost seven wickets to collect 213 runs. If South Africa gave Australia a target of 250 then South Africa would have won yesterday's match. Either way, win or lose, Australia are now in the final and should now focus on the future. Now it is to be seen how the final match of Australia vs India goes. Thousands of cricket fans are eagerly waiting to see which team will be the champion.