ICC Cricket World Cup 2023

[mugatiya]

(11-20-2023, 01:35 AM)mugatiya Wrote:  

(11-20-2023, 01:17 AM)BELSWILF Wrote:  They would have choked if not for Marnus!!!  

Yea underrated knock by Labus Cag Ne. But it was tailor-made for him to play his classic gritty test knock. Another character who knows what it is to dig deep and fight for his place in the side.

He said the team was announced at 10pm the night before the game and he was nervous until then as he didn't think he would be in the playing XI. But they bury these to deliver when it counts

Ice in their veins when the big moments come.

The Aus think tank had gone to the Modi ground at 10pm the night before to check the dew situation and ONLY then had they picked the XI for the game and why Marnus was picked.

The more you dig into this win, the more you see how Aus was tactically magnificent. The decision to ball was a calculated gamble. One for the ages.

[BELSWILF]

(11-21-2023, 10:11 PM)mugatiya Wrote:  

(11-20-2023, 01:35 AM)mugatiya Wrote:  Yea underrated knock by Labus Cag Ne. But it was tailor-made for him to play his classic gritty test knock. Another character who knows what it is to dig deep and fight for his place in the side.

He said the team was announced at 10pm the night before the game and he was nervous until then as he didn't think he would be in the playing XI. But they bury these to deliver when it counts

Ice in their veins when the big moments come.

The Aus think tank had gone to the Modi ground at 10pm the night before to check the dew situation and ONLY then had they picked the XI for the game and why Marnus was picked.

The more you dig into this win, the more you see how Aus was tactically magnificent. The decision to ball was a calculated gamble. One for the ages.

Was having too much dew caused them to pick Marnus? I am just curious, how Marnus being there relevant as opposed to a different player? If dew was significant then bowling first was a no brainer. Also, that would nullify India's spin attack since they had to bowl with dew.
We were also correct when we put India to bat first in our match with them. Although many criticized KM's decision to field first. The difference is that, our bowling and fielding vs Aussies, with them also having a great tactical on-field captain.

[mugatiya]

Mitch Marsh 2023
Swampy Marsh 1987

Is that a cricket first? Father-son combo winning a WC?

[rsk19]

Toppers, duffers, can-do-betters - the World Cup report cards are out

Australia are annoying teacher's pets again, India get gold stars for effort, England look for a place to hide their report cards

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/toppers-duffers-can-do-betters-the-world-cup-report-cards-are-out-1409897

Sri Lanka

Place: Ninth

Remarks: No matter how bad your playing XI is, it will never be as bad as your administration. But man, has your playing XI sucked.

Best work: Beating England. Very least you could do. But nice.

Worst work: Your administrators asking for the ICC to suspend their own board after the Sri Lankan courts gave a stay order ousting the interim committee that replaced the board for roughly 24 hours, off the back of you crashing out of the World Cup and out of the 2024 Champions Trophy.

[kalu5678]

(11-21-2023, 09:32 PM)pj57 Wrote:  Kalu is famous for shooting off the hip without thinking LOL

[stillwill]

Ashwin just mentioned that they were surprised to see Australia opt to bowl first in the final. Apparently during the innings break, Ashwin approached George Bailey and asked why the Aussies chose to bat first. Australians he said they had done their homework well. They mentioned that they knew that that the Ahemdabad pitch was originally brought from Orrissa(East India) and they use black soil instead of red soil in the East. The black soil tend to get flatter and get's less bouncier, making it easier to bat. The red soil also isn't impacted by the dew. The black soil also get's better for batting as the sun settles and the turn that comes in the first inning doesn't come in the 2nd inning.

[mugatiya]

(11-21-2023, 10:34 PM)BELSWILF Wrote:  

(11-21-2023, 10:11 PM)mugatiya Wrote:  The Aus think tank had gone to the Modi ground at 10pm the night before to check the dew situation and ONLY then had they picked the XI for the game and why Marnus was picked.

The more you dig into this win, the more you see how Aus was tactically magnificent. The decision to ball was a calculated gamble. One for the ages.

Was having too much dew caused them to pick Marnus?  I am just curious, how Marnus being there relevant as opposed to a different player?  If dew was significant then bowling first was a no brainer.  Also, that would nullify India's spin attack since they had to bowl with dew.
We were also correct when we put India to bat first in our match with them. Although many criticized KM's decision to field first. The difference is that, our bowling and fielding vs Aussies, with them also having a great tactical on-field captain.

The ’60s pop song and stats guru behind Australia’s World Cup miracle

The night before Australia’s male cricketers stepped into the cauldron of Narendra Modi Stadium for the World Cup final, two critical meetings took place. One involved hard data, the other a Simon and Garfunkel song.

One strengthened Pat Cummins’ conviction that if he won the toss, he should send India in; the other helped give the Australians the strength to conjure a World Cup win for the ages.

The two meetings are recounted in a podcast by commentator Mark Howard, who was invited into the dressing room after the final on Sunday night to record interviews for his Howie Games World Cup Tour Diaries podcast. Amid the celebrations, he was told that Cummins and coach Andrew McDonald asked the team’s analytics chief to try to convince them why they should ignore their instinct to bowl first.

In their team meeting on the eve of the final, the Australians listened to the calming Simon and Garfunkel song, The Sound of Silence, to help them prepare for, and ultimately deal with, the sea of blue shirts that awaited them in the crowd.

“Sounds of Silence was a small part of a team meeting presentation,” a team spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.

One verse goes: “And in the naked light I saw 10,000 people, maybe more, people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that voices never share, no one dared, disturb the sound of silence.”


The crowd of more than 90,000 was rendered silent first when Cummins removed Indian hero Virat Kohli, who appeared stunned to have knocked a short ball onto his stumps, and later as Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne combined for a century stand that guided the visitors towards victory.

Cummins was delighted with how his team had taken the crowd out of the game.

“You knew you were walking into something pretty special. And then to walk out for the toss and just see 130,000 blue Indian shirts; it’s an experience you’ll never forget,” he said at the post-match press conference.

“[It was an] awesome day, and the good thing was they weren’t too noisy for most of it.”

Cummins’ bold call to send India in was part of a masterclass in captaincy, his instincts backed up by detailed information provided by the team’s boffins about past results, dew patterns and even the composition of the soil in Ahmedabad.

“Andrew and Pat did seek detailed info on the bowling first statistics of the ground from team stats man Tom Body,” the CA spokesman confirmed.

In an interview with South African great A.B. de Villiers on Tuesday, David Warner revealed the statistics presented to Cummins favoured batting first, but when senior players were consulted on what they wanted to do, they were keen to bowl.

Star quicks Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood – and Cummins himself – backed up the decision to bowl first with excellent spells.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma said at the coin toss he would have batted first if he had won the toss.

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, whose decision to bowl first in the 2005 Ashes Edgbaston Test famously backfired, said Cummins had made a brave call.

“I mean, any captain deciding to bowl first at the toss; that’s a gutsy, courageous move,” Ponting told Sky Sports.

“Australia felt that if they could bowl well on that dry wicket early on and restrict India, batting was going to get easier in the second innings – but we all know if you get that call wrong and you lose the game, that’s a huge decision to make for a relatively young captain.”

Former Victorian captain Darren Berry conceded he was wrong to suggest Cummins would resign from the captaincy because of his tactics during the fourth Ashes Test earlier this year. Australia drew the series 2-2 and retained the urn.

“Huge triumph for the Australian team in the boiling cauldron of India. I was critical of skipper Cummins[’] tactics during the Ashes series & sceptical of his tenure. I was wrong. Last night was his crowning glory as captain. Credit to all involved, this is a monumental victory,” Berry said on social media.

David Warner, who will miss the forthcoming T20 series in India and will retire from Test cricket after the coming home summer, took to social media to thank all involved with the tournament.

“Chuffed to walk away as winners and 6 times champions. Our whole team should be extremely proud,” the 37-year-old opener wrote.

Then came the kicker: “Thanks again everyone, see you in 2027,” he wrote, alluding to Australia’s world title defence in four years.

Warner has been replaced in the T20 squad by Aaron Hardie.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-60s-pop-song-and-stats-guru-behind-australia-s-world-cup-miracle-20231121-p5elms.html

If anyone wants to listen to Howie's podcast referenced here you can check this.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/howies-world-cup-tour-diary-episode-8/id1146329262?i=1000635390431

[nuffa]

So harsh was right all along. And all of us were dissing him.

[BELSWILF]

(11-24-2023, 10:42 AM)nuffa Wrote:  So harsh was right all along. And all of us were dissing him.

Yes, until the next ICC WC, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Harsha Jothi for not believing in his theory and prediction about India.

[stillwill]

Indians were chokers all all along, just look at the last cup they won...