Before this, the 2 teams have faced each other 11 times on Olympics stage, with Australia holding slight edge with 6 wins & India securing 3, while 2 ended in stalemates.
Put into bat, India rode battling half-centuries by KL Rahul and Virat Kohli to post a below-par 240 all out in exactly 50 overs at a packed Narendra Modi Stadium.
Pat Cummins’s decision to field, primarily to avoid operating with a dewy ball in the night, bemused many but Australian bowlers, aided by some superb fielding, stifled their opposition.
‘If any team can challenge home side at this point it is probably Australians, because of their ultra-competitive nature,’ former English batsman writes in an op-ed in The Guardian.
Will Captain Courageous lift the World Cup that flushes away the gut-wrenching disappointment he suffered 12 years ago? Will Gill, Siraj, Ishan, and Shreyas carry Kohli on their shoulders on a victory lap?
The 2023 World Cup final isn't happening between the best two teams of the tournament. But despite India having a clear advantage, a win for Australia can't be ruled out.
A subject that united the media was the World Test Championship final between India and Australia at The Oval. They took us from ‘hope’ to ‘despair’ within a few hours.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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