Certified Legendary Thread 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Game 48 The Final India v Australia 19/11 1900hrs @ Narendra Modi Stadium

[Gough]

I didn't realise Gujarat is a dry state, that rules out Narendra Modhi Stadium for my custom.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Hmmm where have I heard that before?

 

[Gak Attack]

I'm glad we're picking sides for the game again. Too often I think we can just get stuck with choosing a XI based on overall form or expected potential. Marnus is obviously the biggest example here, in the past I think they could have been too excited about Stoinis's potential but if there was ever a Marnus pitch it was this one so well done picking him and he proved them right. Still overall there's probably only one place for Smith/Labs for most games.

 

[Leeda]

Barr..iliant. All they needed was a grand old buck shot between the corpus menus and rock fillia...
Hedonistic and ...silence is golden...

 

[apollo_creed]

I'm glad we're picking sides for the game again. Too often I think we can just get stuck with choosing a XI based on overall form or expected potential. Marnus is obviously the biggest example here, in the past I think they could have been too excited about Stoinis's potential but if there was ever a Marnus pitch it was this one so well done picking him and he proved them right. Still overall there's probably only one place for Smith/Labs for most games.

Not with a front three of Head, Warner and Marsh. Stoinis has no place in the line-up, he has been consistently poor and unreliable with the bat.

Need two solid, technically sound players at 4 and 5 with that front three.

 

[eltrain]

I'm glad we're picking sides for the game again. Too often I think we can just get stuck with choosing a XI based on overall form or expected potential. Marnus is obviously the biggest example here, in the past I think they could have been too excited about Stoinis's potential but if there was ever a Marnus pitch it was this one so well done picking him and he proved them right. Still overall there's probably only one place for Smith/Labs for most games.

underappreciated point. The decision to play Marnus ended up being absolutely critical to us winning.

 

[philreich]

It's a quiet day in the office - I just said to one of the staff, "Geez it's quiet in here: for a moment, I thought I was at the World Cup final."

 

[AJ_2000]

So much salt pretty much the same excuses that have been shared here

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/deluded-world-cup-claim-slaps-australia-in-the-face/news-story/e801b6c48445ed1644c6948b0b96e786

 

[big_e]

I didn't realise Gujarat is a dry state, that rules out Narendra Modhi Stadium for my custom.

Not hard to get a permit to drink, apparently.

I remember hearing on radio commentary during the test series that the upper deck has no toilets or food outlets, etc, but I've not been able to confirm that anywhere else.

 

[Satan]

Not hard to get a permit to drink, apparently.

I remember hearing on radio commentary during the test series that the upper deck has no toilets or food outlets, etc, but I've not been able to confirm that anywhere else.

Think hotels are ok for foreigners . When wanderers won afc club in saudi arabia , they drank at embassy

 

[PhatBoy]

So much salt pretty much the same excuses that have been shared here

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/deluded-world-cup-claim-slaps-australia-in-the-face/news-story/e801b6c48445ed1644c6948b0b96e786

Oddly enough the BEST thing that has happened for India out of all of this?

Their oft maligned players have actually come out of it looking ok.
Aside from the presentation thing (was that real or not? I haven’t read the story) I haven’t heard of any real carry on and they seem to have copped their medicine without any overt misrepresentation of themselves.

I actually feel sorry for them if this is the sort of shit they have to represent

 

[JimmyBC]

Why would you feel sorry for rich, entitled, soft **** Indian cricketers?

 

[grumbleguts]

Everyone beats India in England.

And they DID do a bradbury to make the final NEVER EVER FORGET THAT. Clayton's win.

 

[PhatBoy]

Why would you feel sorry for rich, entitled, soft utensil Indian cricketers?

Because they’re human beings and they’re not entitled and I don’t know what soft utensils have to do with anything, and having half a billion people probably hating you and burning effigies of you wouldn’t feel great either.

But yeah.
Rich.

 

[PhatBoy]

And they DID do a bradbury to make the final NEVER EVER FORGET THAT. Clayton's win.

What does that even mean?

Edit: oh, NZ. Nevermind

 

[010203]

Trav looks munted. More munted than Robbo (TGO).

 

[Foucault1989]

India are massive underachievers in cricket given their obsession with the game and population, none of their best line-ups over the years hold a candle to the great era sides of the past like the West Indies & Australia.

Since the late 90s India has always been a team of champions rather than champion team

 

[PhatBoy]

Since the late 90s India has always been a team of champions rather than champion team

Again their bowling attacks haven’t been. It’s really not very difficult.

Unless you count Srinath you who was gone by the end of the decade, Their three best bowlers from 1995-2010 were Harbhajan, Zaheer and Kumble. Kumble was a champion. Harbhajan was a champion when absolutely everything was in his favour but nothing more, and Zaheer was nothing more than a good honest left armer.

The fact is that in the last decade they have addressed that and started to produce attacks that whether you would consider them to be filled with champions or not, they play and function as good attacks should and it’s allowed them to start competing and winning in countries they didn’t previously.

They’re unbeaten in their last four series in Australia and England and blew it in SA when Rabada and Jansen f***ed them.

 

[James Colorado]

Oddly enough the BEST thing that has happened for India out of all of this?

Their oft maligned players have actually come out of it looking ok.
Aside from the presentation thing (was that real or not? I haven’t read the story) I haven’t heard of any real carry on and they seem to have copped their medicine without any overt misrepresentation of themselves.

I actually feel sorry for them if this is the sort of s**t they have to represent

I thought Sharma spoke quite well, he didn't make excuses but gave a lot of credit to Head and Labuschagne.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Peaked too early

Which makes our 2007 win all the more impressive. Absolutely smashed basically everyone... Then simply rinsed and repeated in the Final.

 

[PhatBoy]

I thought Sharma spoke quite well, he didn't make excuses but gave a lot of credit to Head and Labuschagne.

He’s been a pretty good leader I think, he’s prepared to play the way he has to in order to give them the best chance, he has generally captained well although he panicked as I think we all acknowledged by going to shami instead of siraj with the ball and most of his pressers have been fairly gracious. It’s not like they seem to have a team stacked with dickheads at the moment and even one noted dickhead they actually do have, couldn’t get a game (Ashwin)

 

[AJ_2000]

Let's be honest it's really hard to win a World Cup.










Unless you're Australia then it's bang easy.

 

[bh90210fan]

I still rate the Bairstow runout above this World Cup win tbh

 

[MarcMaverick]

Trav looks munted. More munted than Robbo (TGO).

He should get at slab of WE every day for the rest of his life at a minimum.

 

[MarcMaverick]

I still rate the Bairstow runout above this World Cup win tbh

Nah, making 1B+ people into sodium refineries is much sweeter.