2023 Cricket World Cup ultimate: Australia beat India by six wickets to claim sixth men’s title

Travis Head struck a powerful, match-winning hundred as Australia claimed a record-extending sixth men’s Cricket World Cup title, breaking Indian hearts with a six-wicket win over the match hosts within the ultimate in Ahmedabad.

Head’s excellent 137, off 120 deliveries, helped rescue Australia from 47-3 early on of their chase of 241 to win as he grew to become solely the sixth participant to rating a century in a males’s World Cup ultimate, following within the footsteps of Sir Clive Lloyd (1975), Sir Viv Richards (1979), Aravinda de Silva (1996), Ricky Ponting (2003), Adam Gilchrist (2007) and Mahela Jayawardene (2011).

India 240 all out in 50 overs: KL Rahul (66 off 107 balls), Virat Kohli (54 off 63), Rohit Sharma (47 off 31); Mitchell Starc (3-55), Pat Cummins (2-34), Josh Hazlewood (2-60)

Australia 241-4 out in 43 overs: Travis Head (137 off 120 balls), Marnus Labuschagne (58no off 110); Jasprit Bumrah (2-43), Mohammed Siraj (1-45), Mohammed Shami (1-47)

Participant of the Match: Travis Head

Mohammed Shami (1-47) had picked up David Warner (7) along with his first ball, whereas Mitchell Marsh (15) and Steve Smith (4) each departed within the face of an excellent opening spell from Jasprit Bumrah (2-43).

However Head and the uber-watchful Marnus Labuschagne (58no off 110 balls) noticed off the hazard and, with batting changing into progressively simpler below lights as the sport wore on, they shared in a 192-run stand as Australia cruised to victory, Glenn Maxwell smashing the profitable runs along with his first ball after Head perished two shy of the profitable line.

India falter with bat after blistering Rohit begin

Earlier, KL Rahul (66 off 107) top-scored for India, whereas Virat Kohli (54 off 63) chipped in with a half century however the innings misplaced its method after a blistering, boundary-laden 31-ball cameo from skipper Rohit Sharma (47) on the prime of the order.

However Rohit departed to the fourth ball of the tenth over, Head claiming a terrific catch working again from cowl, and Shreyas Iyer (4) was gone to the second ball of the eleventh. The scoring dried up massively thereafter, with solely 4 boundaries scored over the remaining 40 overs of the innings!

Kohli and Rahul rebuilt, including 67 for the fourth wicket, however slowly, and the Narendra Modi Stadium was silenced when the previous was bowled by Pat Cummins (2-34), chopping onto his stumps, when deceived by the dearth of tempo within the floor.

With Kohli’s dismissal coming within the twenty ninth over of the innings, and given India’s lack of all-round choices of their decrease order, Ravindra Jadeja and Suryakumar Yadav, together with Rahul, had been pressured to bat cautiously.

As they seemed to construct a platform from which to launch later, Rahul reaching his half century within the course of, Australia’s seamers managed to discover some useful reverse-swing. Josh Hazlewood (2-60) exploited it completely to choose up Jadeja (9), whereas Mitchell Starc (3-55) claimed the important thing scalp of Rahul with one which straightened from around the wicket and located the sting.

India’s complete had solely simply edged previous 200 when Rahul departed, with greater than eight overs left to bat, and with only a assortment of their bowlers left to be part of Suryakumar on the crease to attempt to scramble to a match-winning rating.

Ultimately, the tail provided valuable little and Suryakumar (18) would glove Hazlewood behind within the forty eighth as India had been finally bowled out for 240 off the ultimate ball of their 50-over allocation.

Bumrah has Australia rattled earlier than Head hundred heroics

Early in Australia’s reply, Bumrah’s double-wicket opening burst, together with Shami’s first-ball dismissal of Warner, appeared to swing the sport firmly again in India’s favour.

Every breakthrough was greeted by deafening celebrations contained in the stadium, however all had a component of fine fortune about them. Shami and Bumrah, who every beat the sting with regularity in supremely skilful spells of quick bowling, truly claimed the wickets of Warner and Marsh, respectively, to a few quick, broad long-hops.

As for Smith, he’ll have been massively annoyed with himself for failing to evaluation his lbw determination within the eighth over, the ball proven on replay to have struck him exterior the road.

Ultimately, it mattered not. Head, who struggled in opposition to the seamers early on, nearly survived the opening bursts of Bumrah and Shami, then received his eye in in opposition to the ineffective spinners – Kuldeep Yadav (0-56) and Jadeja (0-43) each held wicketless – and cruised to a powerful fifth ODI century.

Shortly after smashing the returning Bumrah again out of the assault with three boundaries in an over, Head’s magic second arrived within the thirty fourth over, whereas he celebrated by smacking Jadeja into the stands within the subsequent for the second of his 4 maximums (to go along with 15 boundaries) within the innings.

Labuschagne introduced up a richly-deserved half century of his personal off 99 balls, to finish the fortieth over, earlier than Maxwell struck the profitable runs with seven overs to spare after Head perished late on, holing out within the deep off Mohammed Siraj (1-45).

‘Head is a legend’ | ‘India not adequate’ – what the captains stated

Australia captain Pat Cummins:

“You may have to be courageous to win a World Cup. You’ll be able to’t look forward to it to occur. You may have to be courageous and take the sport on.

“We saved our greatest for final. The gamers stood up and had been are fairly satisfied. This can be a 12 months we are going to bear in mind for an extended, very long time.

“My coronary heart was fluttering [at 47-3] however Marnus (Labuschagne) had a cool head straightaway and Trav [Head] did what he does.

“He’s actually courageous, takes the sport on, places the strain again on the bowlers, and to do it on the largest stage reveals loads of character.

“I could not be happier for Trav. He’s a legend.”

India captain Rohit Sharma:

“We weren’t adequate at this time however I’m actually happy with the way in which we now have performed since day one. As we speak was not our day.

“We tried every thing but it surely wasn’t supposed to be. We received early wickets however Australia stitched a partnership and took the sport away from us.”