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I went to bed after 23 overs of our batting as Head and Marnus didn't look too bothered.
Magnificent fielding and bowling by the Aussies.
India paid the price for a few of things:
- trying to get a pitch that would suit them more than the Aussies
- having a very long tail meant that set batsmen still couldn't go after the bowling
- changing their bowling order - Shami at first change had been more than doing his job, as had Siraj opening.
- not being under pressure at anytime during the tournament
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I didn't think the Aussies could do it, not on the way we had been playing. But that performance was one for the ages. I've never heard an Indian crowd silent before, and God knows there weren't many Aussies to make a noise.
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Imagine having a major cricket ground called the Scott Morrison Ground or the Tony Abbot. We would deserve to be flogged.
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(11-20-2023, 12:22 AM)crashlander date Wrote:But that performance was one for the ages. I've never heard an Indian crowd silent before, and God knows there weren't many Aussies to make a noise.
On that crowd and it's dread.
It just goes to show you how much impact a crowd can have. You could see that as the crowd silence grew the tension on the likes of Kohli and KL Rahul also grew.
It's why as a supporter base when we role up in numbers we have be loud and support our team unequivocally from the first bounce to the final siren. Get too silent and the team will pick up on the tension, it's a primal empathic/sympathetic response to emotion that the players have little control over.
In the Prelim, when the Bluebagger Army went quiet, it played right into the Lion's hand!
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Watched half last night, and half before work this morning. Which was made easy with the kayo FF button. Completed in 1/3 the time.
Aussies went on a team early and got into the exact same position that India was in when we both got 3 down.
Difference between us and them, we kept the scoreboard ticking over. Best part of that was, it shut up the crowd.
The ability for the aussies to find the singles and rotate the strike played them into form which allowed them to hit the boundaries when they were there to be hit.
India i think had 1 boundary in about 30 overs....and were not hitting enough singles.
Intelligent cricket all round from the aussies.
Constant rotations of the bowlers meant India were always on the back foot and not getting comfortable and couldn't rotate the strike like they needed.
Great field placings and awesome effort by the aussies in the field saved us 30 runs on the night....which was a big deal.
Never have i seen such a huge, 1-eyed crowd at any sporting event ever......and to silence them was the hardest thing to do, and we managed to do it....and it won us the game.
When you have 0-2 to start, going 9-0 from there to take the whole thing against the undefeated home crowd favourites is nothing but a fairytale.
This one happened to come true.
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Fielding was excellent and led to frustration from the Indians who started well but couldnt get the boundaries they needed and tried to force the ball which led to their downfall. Indians performance at the end of the game not hanging around for the presentation was a real dummy spit and if we had done same there would have been an outcry and calls for fines etc etc....
Good losers and humble they are not and seeing them miss out again after their test championship debacle was good for the game imho and maybe if they lost the rockstar swagger and image, prepared their home wickets in a fair and reasonable manner they might get some reward.
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Masterclass in planning and then execution. Kudos Cummins and MacDonald et al.
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