Australia's Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bowl first, but India's rohit sharma stated that they would have batted first anyway. Both teams have not altered from the semi-finals. While Rohit has gotten off to a flying start, Shubman Gill, who has a terrific record across formats in Ahmedabad, has been beaten early by Mitchell Starc. virat kohli came in with all guns blazing, but Rohit fell three runs short of his half-century to Glenn Maxwell due to a superb catch from Travis Head.

Cummins then got shreyas iyer in the following over, and KL rahul and kohli are now attempting to right the indian ship. After the 10th over, the boundaries almost completely dried up, and kohli fell on 54 off 63. rahul tried to keep the innings together, but india suffered another setback when ravindra Jadeja, who had been promoted ahead of Suryakumar Yadav, perished in the 36th over. rahul has a half-century to his name, and SKY has joined him in what is India's last stand of acknowledged batsmen. rahul was bowled out for 66 from 107 by Starc.

After mohammed siraj and kuldeep yadav put up 14 runs for the final wicket, india were all out for 240 in 50 overs. As the unstoppable force india confronts the immovable object Australia, an entire country clutches its collective breath. The world cup trophy is on the line. The two teams that met in the top fight in johannesburg 20 years ago, and who also happened to be the two semi-finalists that lost in the 2019 World Cup. When former india coach ravi shastri said before of India's world cup 2023 opener against Australia, 'there's a long way to go, but these two might be possible finals,' he couldn't have been more wrong.
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19/11/2023 06:05 PM