World Cup Daily 2023, Day 45: How can Australia beat India in the final?

World Cup Daily 2023, Day 45: One more day until the storm. On the barricades of freedom. Or something like that. India are red-hot favourites, Australia are perhaps the only team that might challenge them. How can it happen? When will be know? And where have we mislaid the 1992 World Cup? Get it all on the second-last day of this tournament.
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[@vamsi9432]

as an Indian, i won't believe it until Rohit is holding the trophy.

[@BowlerKing-mb7zo]

Same same

[@Ab-cj8bs]

Bhai dar lag raha h😢

[@anand_narla]

​@@Ab-cj8bsfeeling the same.

[@abhishekindoriya]

IT'S GOING TO BE 11-0 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 IT'S TRUE , IT'S DAMN TRUE 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@dhirajjha8619]

OKAY

[@DrKazoo9994]

If India lose I think a comparable sporting moment would be Uruguay beating Brazil 2-1 in the 1950 wc football final in front of 200,000 brasillians at the maracana

[@gamerxvc3055]

😏😂😂

[@yourstruly1234]

Actually might be a good toss to loss..pitch will be slow in first half..

[@lawsattitude1999]

Toss won't effect Aussie either way. Heck, the last 3 winners lost the toss. Then only thing that will seperate these 2 is the quality of their players.

[@shihadrocks]

Nostradamus over here

[@louquay]

Good call mate

[@Gunjandabral]

Get Head early to bowl to Rohit , if Starc and Hazelwood don't strike. Put in Zampa straight away as soon as Kohli arrives. And Save Starc for a crack at Shreyas and Rahul.That's how you try and stop India's batting . May not succeed but probably gives you a chance.

[@vijaykumarsdesai2937]

Head to rohit aaaa

[@seejoyalapatt-ke4np]

We need more of you guys..excellent

[@manassrivastava8753]

India should just shut the outside noise, repeat the process we’ve been following for so long and concentrate on the task for one more game. So far they’ve handled pressure well and if they play to potential we’ve seen no one stands a chance. Just need to fight our own demons and we will come through !!!!

[@Supersticio]

Cricket is the great equalizer: no borders, religion or nationally. Just great athletes forging friendly, respectful connections.👍🌏🌌

[@lakshminarayanpanigrahy3076]

If you hear Pat Cummins press conference, you can feel that he is under stress and body language was not correct

[@bobburroughs6241]

Ha, ha.

[@maxmaxwell343]

He looks pretty happy and stress free now

[@rickiehardiman903]

You two guys really jhooz up my day

[@FinalWordCricket]

We don’t even know how to spell it

[@georgeibrahim7945]

Australia will win

[@Krish-2206]

I think Travis head and Marsh are key for Australia from a morale point of view. If India can get them out cheaply, that’s a huge morale boost. If Rohit/Gill/Kohli can play watchful for the first 10 - 15 overs, Australia will feel the pressure in the middle overs. ( applicable for both - while chasing/ batting first)

[@sachinsavarkar7785]

I think its India's world cup. Because Australians are talking how to beat India. People used talk about how to beat Australia. It's india's match and event.

[@rahulmakhija4790]

😂😂 Huge Turnover 😂😂 If the analysts are thinking the players wd be having SLEEPLESS NIGHTS 😂😂

[@Riuytfhjklf4634]

Aus favourites

[@georgesunny1999]

​@@rahulmakhija4790You do realise this is Australia,right?!?! They can win a bloody game with a single player if they want to Not saying Ind won't win but have to give the kangaroos the respect bcus they have the pedigree!!!

[@haranbtech006]

​@@georgesunny1999you just reminded why Aus is weak, 😂😂. Any team that requires "one of the greatest innings every played" to win AGF, is not a good team🎉🎉🎉🎉 it can happen once in several thousand matches "aka miracle ".

[@shihadrocks]

Lol. Lmao even.

[@jpc501]

These guys are under playing australia, they won 8/8 for fuck sake.

[@louquay]

The answer is FUCKING EASILY

[@sekharraja9679]

Every indian star got a fairy tale script this worldcup excelt bumrah. He has been exceptional without having that standout performance, hope he is saving ot for the final.

[@FinalWordCricket]

He was very important against England.

[@sekharraja9679]

@@FinalWordCricket yeah but he is not the thing that people remeber of that game. Its shami vs stokes that people remember. There is no "remember that bumrah spell" game, he has been exceptional everygame.

[@nomad123a]

Lately I think this podcast has started taking cheap potshot typical of first world people. I don’t see any excitement about anything that’s happening. Seriously guys chill out, be good travellers and learn to enjoy local culture.

[@nomad123a]

Learn a few things from the great Wasim who brushes aside non-cricket stuff and shares his views. I like your views when it comes to cricket and to be honest I became a listener because of the light hearted poking you did. But now it’s turned to one way bashing mostly. Don’t know the reason but do listen to yourself from a year back. You had so many good things to talk about and so much constructive criticism with non targeted fun.

[@dingoDogMan]

Australia's best chance is to let Kohli get into the 90s. That'll dramatically decrease their run rate as all he cares about is getting to 100. He couldn't care less about team success.

[@dhawal7476]

And that way allowing Kohli to play his ROLE allotted to him by team management so that everyone else around him (Iyer, Sky, Jaddu) can whack the bowlers? Sure ❤

[@lakshminarayanpanigrahy3076]

A ridiculous assessment

[@adeadgirl13]

2000 IQ move!

[@advitiayanand5974]

Please. I hope this happens 😂 Would be like gifting us the trophy.

[@GAUTI.]

The synopsis of the closing ceremony being labelled as boisterous is a bit 'RICH' coming from a couple of Aussies.

[@sramabadran]

All these pundits plotting ways to take india down is funny to watch. 😂 But I had to add, I mostly agree with everything you say, even the bits unpalatable to most Indians.

[@dddsaa7217]

Exactly what I was thinking about

[@louquay]

Didn't need pundits to plot - just needed Travis Head 🤌

[@niksur7113]

Smashed😂

[@acousticnomad1682]

To me it will come down to the Indian bowling against Aussie batting. If Aus can blunt the first 15 overs, they have the edge with their more explosive batting top and lower order. Aussie bowling should be able to keep Indian batting in check imo.

[@sickman112]

Keen to hear Geoff tomorrow on the abc

[@seventyeight4237]

Gotta love Aunty

[@shihadrocks]

I listened to the first two hours of the SF and loved the team, including our lad. Then I got home and the first thing I heard was Hayden talking all the way though a delivery about some bullshit jingoism, something about Ozzie backs to the wall. Jebus give me strength to not throw the remote at the TV tonight

[@thetraveldrunk]

The podcast is bookended with a critique of capitalism at the beginning and a Westfields promotion at the end. Lmao.

[@anshumansingh7725]

You guys are so patronising of whatever doesn’t fit your idea of “Anglo” method of doing things.

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

Since the series in 2020 the head to head is 5:5. They only beat them in a series in March of this year. Same Indian team was bowled out for 117 in Chennai when starc got the ball swinging. They also failed to chase 350 in the final warm up game before the World Cup started. If it's a fair pitch, there's every chance aus can beat them. If it's ragging from ball 1, probably the same thing will happen as what happened in the group stage game.

[@PankajKumar6493]

Bilaterals are for experimenting not winning. Both teams were experimenting.

[@rahulmakhija4790]

Yes it's gonna be like the group stage game. Aussies won't even last 40 overs. India will chase it in 25 overs with Hitman in this mood😂😂. If India bats first then it's the highest total of the WC 23.

[@jehanariyaratnam2874]

@@rahulmakhija4790well your comment aged well, ragged in the first innings and india weren't willing to take a single risk then flattened out in the 2nd innings with the dew😂

[@UmpireStrikesBack]

Will you be discussing the Henry Nicholls ball tampering incident and the New Zealand cricket verdict? Seems like a distinct lack of international scrutiny.

[@shihadrocks]

the what

[@UmpireStrikesBack]

@@shihadrocks Look it up online. Watch the video. Read the New Zealand cricket verdict. Decide for yourself.

[@shihadrocks]

@@UmpireStrikesBack just crazy this is the first I think I've heard of it

[@UmpireStrikesBack]

@@shihadrocks If it was an Australian and a Cricket Australia verdict. Do you think the world would be silent? What would people say?

[@FinalWordCricket]

Can’t say we’re watching a lot of Plunket Shield right about now

[@Lathi33]

Remember the day before 2017 champions trophy final. 😂😂😂.. Everybody had the exact same conversation about India being formidable for pakistan. And the pain i felt after learning that India lost that final horribly

[@kaafirTamatar]

Alright, is it the fault of the ICC or the BCCI that Imran Khan is in jail? You guys should probably write to Gen. Asim Muneer to see if Imran can be released for a day. He has fan following in India both for cricket and for screwing up his country.

[@anitapadhi325]

These guys are prolific Modi haters; what do you expect; One is a borderline Hinduphobic.

[@FinalWordCricket]

Listening to words isn't your strong point, hey?

[@kaafirTamatar]

@@FinalWordCricket Well, English isn't my first language. Perhaps I imagined a bit of bias against everything that happens in India from pitches to organisation. Anyway, I have been following your channel for a while and enjoy the content. Keep going 👍

[@georgesunny1999]

​​@@anitapadhi325And yet,you still take the pains to go through this video! Wonderful😂😂😂

[@hershpuri289]

35 pg document... i like your tone -- 'humility' is not a strong point!! parade of champions-- arjuna ranatunga after alan border..-- 'they have joseph stalined him out'

[@FinalWordCricket]

Haha, thanks!

[@vijaykumarsdesai2937]

8 overs 80 wowwww

[@moviefan700]

When Australia hosted in 2015, did the fans, organizers, and Cricket Australia have this much of confidence in their team? If India win, we are definitely taking the supremacy away from Aussies based on this confidence

[@sekharraja9679]

I dont think there are conspiracies about kettleborough, people just think he is a very bad luck for india

[@lakshminarayanpanigrahy3076]

Australia came to Final with pure lock. They should have lost to Afghanistan and Pakistan

[@nandansharma3923]

It wont be easy for India.

[@manvendrarawat8785]

Capacity of Narendra Modi Stadium 🏟️ is 132000. It will over filled....

[@snowman01]

7:12 2018. Collingwood should never have been in the Grand Final. Ruined our 4-peat 😋

[@mrgyani]

Even if they get Kohli, India might still have a chance.. Kohli, Gill and Rahul all average 46+ against Australia (in the last 2 yrs, 5 innings). Even if Rahul stays, he could salvage it.

[@FinalWordCricket]

He's been a banker all tournament. Funny considering how badly he was batting in the Test series earlier this year.

[@seejoyalapatt-ke4np]

Big match its all about kohli

[@shashankshukla1151]

Will you be putting your sobbing video as well after the match?

[@shihadrocks]

You first fucko 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@maxmaxwell343]

Will you?

[@subramanismani3109]

Your dream prediction never comes in reality India wins ❤️👑 kolhi Rohit gill sami bombara Iyer Rahul jadaja if not plays in the India team then your dream will come into real

[@PankajKumar6493]

Bombara 😂😂

[@bobburroughs6241]

Bat first and score 380.

[@kapeel2008]

2 western guys worried about not keeping their supremacy on rest of the world... So cute.. I m crying and sad for them and hope aus wins the cup

[@starbucks3624]

So true. What a case of white solidarity which is okay. We understand

[@Riuytfhjklf4634]

Biggest load of bullshit, i read in a long time.

[@chandrasekharbhaskara6138]

Ins or Aus ,Match will be over in first innings..

[@lakshminarayanpanigrahy3076]

Pat Cummins was looking stressed

[@maxmaxwell343]

He looks pretty happy now 😁

[@akhileshsathyan]

Anything can happen tomorrow but not calling India clear favourites isn’t accurate. Aus have just been slightly better than the rest while India has been miles ahead. They don’t need to win the cup in the future to be called favorites today and tomorrow and upset if it doesn’t happen.

[@vishalkulkarni6046]

Agree totally ! I found the statement that India has to win world cup and then win for next 4 years and then show the same run in next World Cup ..feels odd .. don’t know what to make of it

[@adeadgirl13]

He wasn't talking about calling them favourites. He was talking about calling an Aussie win an upset. India has been miles ahead for a month but that doesn't mean they're unbeatable, especially by Australia. Which is why it will be wrong to call it upset. If India dominates this way for long time then it will be upset.

[@akhileshsathyan]

@@adeadgirl13 I fully understood what he said. An upset is when the improbable event happens and I am saying purely based on probability, it would be an upset & future results/ results a decade ago have no bearing on probability of tomorrow’s event. It is based on current team, their form, strengths and weaknesses.

[@adeadgirl13]

@@akhileshsathyan No an upset is not just an improbable event. An upset is when the team that was 99% sure to win, loses the game. Your definition of upset is wrong. If Netherlands beats India, it's an upset. If Australia beats India it's not an upset. If India dominates for 4 years the way they dominated for the 10 matches until the final, then any team beating India would be an upset. Even accepting your definition, Australia's chance was never improbable. They were slight underdogs. As we saw, it was very probable.

[@rahulmakhija4790]

People are thinking abt India dominating till 2027WC 😂😂 and still saying India wont win the WC 😂😂

[@FinalWordCricket]

Which people?

[@shihadrocks]

How's that working out for you bhai

[@saurakamal3665]

Keep calm . India will win .

[@nitinvishwakarma1158]

India is here to correct the history and write new.😅 India can remove the pace and you can see Ashwin in place of Siraj.

[@guyhornsby9572]

LE GRAND DANSE

[@chandrashekergompa5761]

No mate if Australia faces indian bowling first game over

[@md.rafiulhaque1089]

Please Don't stop the show😢 I am enjoying it very much You guys very generous and polite not like "grade cricketers" Please continue this show even after world cup

[@ytuser903]

I don't understand why 'grade cricketer' type podcast is even a thing.

[@dhawal7476]

Stop whinging and crying. Both podcasts are DIFFERENT and awesome in their own way.

[@pkmkb_0]

and be ready for surprises Shubman Bumrah gonna strike tmrw

[@pkmkb_0]

toss wont matter tmrw

[@Aman_PB03_Hr25]

Let the grass be 1 inch , Australia will piss in pants.

[@eightyseven3113]

Why?

[@georgesunny1999]

If grass is one inch,there won't be any match.....it'll be called off😂😂😂

[@GS15179]

One sided final - india will stamp the dominance infront of all world champion captain and whole world 🌎🌎

[@shihadrocks]

Ah yes, that's exactly what occurred not 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@nair55555]

Adam- haha😊 kohli is a machine. If he doesn’t make a hundred tomorrow, I will treat you in my mansion in UK.

[@maxmaxwell343]

Well he got halfway there

[@ashiquehassanayan2776]

As a former ISI agent Imran shall rather act opposite Shah Rukh Khan as a romantic love interest in Pathan 2 than visit Ahmedabad for a silly cricket game to receive a free blazer....😂

[@rahulsrinivas3224]

There has been so much negativity around how India has hosted this world cup and you guys have been the flag bearers of these narratives. You guys just cant stand the fact that indian cricket is big now.

[@BobB-bu1wk]

They cant

[@FinalWordCricket]

This is the analysis we're here for

[@BobB-bu1wk]

@@FinalWordCricket ok I take that back

[@kshitijkumar3180]

Shubhman is getting a 200 tomorrow

[@childhoodforever223]

Bowl and field exactly like how they did to SA in first ten overs and India's top order will crumble. Iyer and Yadav are lollipop batsmen, Australia should make a quick work of them .

[@PankajKumar6493]

What a revolutionary idea. Bet they didn't think about it in previous matches?

[@rahulmakhija4790]

HITMAN KING KOHLI GILL ALL SET TO GIVE A BRISK START 😂😂. IYER AND SKY BOTH CAN BELT THE LOLLIPOP MAXI AND ZAMPA 😂😂. KL RAHUL has a good technique. What else do you need to win this WC. BOWLERS like Boom boom and SHAMI 😂😂 or the Spin Duo of Kuldeep and Ashwin the Aussie Killer.. Jaddus all round abilities the best athlete in this WC.

[@childhoodforever223]

@@rahulmakhija4790 Yes, all of that was visible when India was 3 down for 2 and would be 4 down had the Australian fielder taken the catch.

[@mangshu21]

​@@childhoodforever223well you didnt take the catch.. if ishan kishan didnt play poor shot he woudnt have gotten out. If ball didnt hit pad rohit woudnt be out. If warner didnt hand in a lollipop catch australia would make more than 199. Dont be a dumbass.

[@manassrivastava8753]

India need to ace the mental aspect of the game more than the cricketing tussle. That’s where the fight will be.

[@wittysparks6787]

under arm bowling, sand paper, if Aus wont invent anything new, India will win.

[@UmpireStrikesBack]

We should use the helmet to tamper with the ball. New Zealand cricket has deemed it legal.

[@wittysparks6787]

@@UmpireStrikesBack by cricketing skills Aus can not beat India. Watch out if Aus pulls of sand paper, news paper, tissue paper.

[@samratmanna1353]

My prediction - Ahmedabad prince will score a hundred

[@shihadrocks]

Headedabad Prince

[@Riuytfhjklf4634]

Congratulations! to Australia for winning the 6 th world Cup.

[@iamaanu94000]

😂

[@nair55555]

Adam - did bhogle end your contract. Heard you slapped him

[@nair55555]

Adam how’s the alcohol going? 🤨

[@ebutu555]

I'm not proud of either BCCI or Jay Shah's administration, but as far as I know Imran hasn't been released from prison yet. Isn't it?

[@FinalWordCricket]

Quite true. It doesn't mean the 1992 World Cup never happened, though.

[@kirannejakar4271]

@finalwordcricket it's already been made aware to everyone that tomo in final match will be played on a used pitch

[@globalnationalismyoutube]

​@@FinalWordCricketNot related to the comment you replied to, but just wanted to let you know that you're doing a great job. My knowledge of cricket is average but you help me understand the matches well. Thanks.

[@vasanthnarain5639]

@@FinalWordCricket its funny how you symphatize with a person who called indians all sorts of things

[@cinefile0075]

@@vasanthnarain5639 he's an racist a$$hole trying not to be ...

[@milindapanha]

Why is everyone- first Jarod Kimber, now you guys strategising India’s downfall? 😢

[@barkupatree6871]

What are you smoking??

[@PankajKumar6493]

They are just thinking of a scenario where it can happen because it's hard od think of one.

[@rahulmakhija4790]

Aussies need to break the backbone of the Indian Team which isn't gonna be easy 😂😂. On the other hand even if Aussies get a start Kuldeep n Ashwin gonna break the Aussies backbone. Bumrah n Shami can control the last 10 overs if there are any batters left. Aussies won't even last for 40 overs😂😂

[@nair55555]

He as in a rehab last year. His Partner mentioned to one of mate in Perth. Hope he is well.

[@Silk1970]

Because India have been so dominant, the narrative in 2003 was how could India beat Australia. All India need to do is play the way they have been.

[@ohalch]

If India are streets ahead, Australia are streets behind

[@maxmaxwell343]

🏆 🇦🇺

[@prathameshkadam8072]

This used to be a cricket podcast. But sadly has became a medium for anti Indian cricket stuff. You guys are finding (Or generating) unnecessary criticism in everything. Ramprakash's column in Guardian seems perfect in which he states the Colonial mindset of west is the reason for this

[@TheEyeofSauron]

I don’t think you even watched the video. Probably looked at the title and decided to have a whinge.

[@maxmaxwell343]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@drrahulmehta]

I don’t agree - just the pedigree and the bloody-mindedness of the Aussies make them the favorite. Indian bowlers, though good, do not belong in the “great” category - they choked in 2 test matches against England and SA when India were on the cusp of winning test series. They will choke on the big occasion and when put under the sword. As for the batters, you only need a bouncer to get the king out in a crunch game. Virat does not fire in knock outs, save for the last semifinal. Aussies look far superior in the field too - with the Indians spilling several chances and them being faultless in the Eden.

[@FinalWordCricket]

Not a chance in the world that Australia are favourites!

[@nikunjdixit1175]

Comparing different formats and different conditions doesn’t make much sense. Much of this bowling attack has also won test matches in Aus in two tours.

[@chinmayaprakash]

It is wonderful to be a naysayer when you are unaccountable. Just pulling down your national team for the sake of doing it and be able to thump your chest later on the off chance that you find yourself on the right side of the prediction must be fun for you. Because if you are wrong, nobody will remember your prediction anyway. Pedigree in the context of the sport means less than you think.

[@drrahulmehta]

@@chinmayaprakash that is my honest assessment. I’m not a naysayer - I’m saying as I see it. I would be proud if Shami gets the new ball and bowls round the wicket to Travis. I would be proud if Kuldeep throws up the ball and asks Marsh to hit him. I would be proud if Bumrah and Siraj hold on to their catches. We will see if that happens, because it hasn’t in the past. Conway hits 2 boundaries and you take out 2nd slip. Next over, Ravindra knicks one exactly where that fielder was. I’m just an observer, not a fanatic.

[@chinmayaprakash]

@@drrahulmehta the team think tank would have made the same observations. This last comment is far more constructive in terms of criticism than your original post. There is no point airing your private fears as concerns and attracting negative attention. This team, more than any other Indian World Cup team in history that has not won the cup (yet), has done enough to deserve respect and admiration. The entire world is doing it. Why can't we? I can understand that we as a collective tend to be superstitious and wary of good things even when they are staring us in the face, but for once, enjoy this new sensation! Even if the team somehow does not manage to lift the cup tomorrow, it has done enough not to be ridiculed.

[@gaurav2k]

This video has a tinge of jealousy.. And Imran well..