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| Event | 2023 Cricket World Cup | ||||||||
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| Australia won by 6 wickets. | |||||||||
| Date | 19 November 2023 | ||||||||
| Venue | Narendra Modi Stadium,Ahmedabad | ||||||||
| Player of the match | Travis Head (Aus) | ||||||||
| Umpires | Richard Illingworth (Eng) andRichard Kettleborough (Eng) | ||||||||
| Attendance | 92,453[1] | ||||||||
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The2023 Cricket World Cup Final was aOne Day Internationalcricket match played at theNarendra Modi Stadium inAhmedabad, on 19 November 2023 to determine the winner of the2023 Cricket World Cup.[2] It was played between host nationIndia andAustralia.[3] It was the first time thatAhmedabad hosted aCricket World Cup final.[4] It was the second time that India and Australia played a World Cup final against each other, after the2003 final.[5]
In the final, Australia defeated India to win a record-extending sixth World Cup title. The comfortable Australian victory, with seven overs to spare, is considered one of the bigger upsets in World Cup history, due to the heavily favoured India going undefeated through the entire tournament up until this point.[6][7][8]
The 2023 Cricket World Cup was hosted byIndia. Originally, the competition was to be played from 9 February to 26 March 2023 but due to getting longer qualification time it was moved to October to November.[9][10] In July 2020, it was announced that the tournament would be moved to October and November as a result of the qualification schedule being disrupted due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[11][12] The ICC released the tournament schedule on 27 June 2023.[13] Semi-finals were played inMumbai andKolkata while the final was held inAhmedabad.[14]
India secured a place in the final for the fourth time, after defeating New Zealand in the semi-final;.[15] having won two (1983 against the West Indies and2011 against Sri Lanka) and lost one (2003 to current finalist Australia).[16]
Australia qualified for a record-extending eighth time in the final, after defeating South Africa in the semi-finals; having won five (1987 against England,1999 against Pakistan,2003 against current finalist India,2007 against Sri Lanka, and2015 against New Zealand) and lost two (1975 to the West Indies and1996 to Sri Lanka).[17]
It was the second time that India and Australia played a World Cup final against each other, the previous one being in2003. None of the players from the squad of both teams were a part of that final, the only member who featured in that game wasRahul Dravid, India's head coach while there was no one from Australia's coaching staff and management being a part of 2003 final. However, there were 7 members from Australia's squad who were a part of the2015 final that includedDavid Warner,Steve Smith,Glenn Maxwell,Mitchell Starc,Josh Hazlewood (who were a part of the playing XI in the 2015 final), as well asPat Cummins andMitchell Marsh, who were not a part of the playing XI in the 2015 final. Meanwhile from the Indian team onlyVirat Kohli andRavichandran Ashwin had featured in a World Cup Final in2011 and among the duo only Virat Kohli was a part of the playing XI in that final.[18]
This match was the lastOne Day International (ODI) for Australian cricketerDavid Warner.[19]
Each team played the other nine teams in the group stage; the top four teams advanced to the semi-finals.[20]
 India | Round |  Australia | ||||
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| Opponent | Result | Group stage | Opponent | Result | ||
| Australia | Won by 6 wickets | Match 1 | India | Lost by 6 wickets | ||
 Afghanistan | Won by 8 wickets | Match 2 |  South Africa | Lost by 134 runs | ||
 Pakistan | Won by 7 wickets | Match 3 |  Sri Lanka | Won by 5 wickets | ||
 Bangladesh | Won by 7 wickets | Match 4 | Pakistan | Won by 62 runs | ||
 New Zealand | Won by 4 wickets | Match 5 |  Netherlands | Won by 309 runs | ||
 England | Won by 100 runs | Match 6 | New Zealand | Won by 5 runs | ||
| Sri Lanka | Won by 302 runs | Match 7 | England | Won by 33 runs | ||
| South Africa | Won by 243 runs | Match 8 | Afghanistan | Won by 3 wickets | ||
| Netherlands | Won by 160 runs | Match 9 | Bangladesh | Won by 8 wickets | ||
| 1st Place | Group stage positions | 3rd Place | ||||
| Opponent | Result | Knockout stage | Opponent | Result | ||
| New Zealand | India won by 70 runs | Semi-finals | South Africa | Australia won by 3 wickets | ||
| Source: ICC[20] | ||||||
On 17 November 2023, theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) named England'sRichard Illingworth andRichard Kettleborough as theon-field umpires, with West Indies'Joel Wilson as thethird umpire, New Zealand'sChris Gaffaney as thereserve umpire, and Zimbabwe'sAndy Pycroft asmatch referee.[21][22]
Kettleborough stood as the on-field umpire in the final for the second time, after2015, while Illingworth, who played in the1992 Cricket World Cup final, became the second person after Sri Lanka'sKumar Dharmasena to feature in the final of the World Cup as both a player and an umpire.[23]
Both teams remained unchanged from their semi-final matches.[24] Australia won the toss and decided to field first.[25]
India made a quick start to their innings, with captainRohit Sharma hitting 47 from 31 balls despite losing opening partnerShubman Gill early on. The loss of Rohit via a brilliant Travis Head catch, andShreyas Iyer soon after left themselves 81/3.[26]Virat Kohli andK. L. Rahul added 67 for the fourth wicket. Later Kohli was dismissed due to a slower ball from Pat Cummins; which Kohli inside-edged onto his stumps.[26] India continued to add runs slowly -- scoring 2 boundaries in a 28 over period (10-38) -- until Rahul was dismissed for 66 to leave India 203/6, and the remaining batsmen were not able to score quickly. The innings ended whenKuldeep Yadav was run-out on the last ball of the innings with the score on 240.[26]
Following a flurry of runs in the opening overs, Australia innings' almost fell apart, withMohammed Shami removing Warner andJasprit Bumrah gettingMitchell Marsh andSteve Smith. At that point, Australia were 47 for 3 after 7 overs.[26] While India was looking for more wickets,Travis Head andMarnus Labuschagne then built a partnership, which put on 192 runs in 35.5 overs. Australia were within two runs of victory when Head was dismissed byMohammed Siraj for 137.[26]Glenn Maxwell was the next batsman in, and hit the winning two runs off the next ball, to give Australia a 6-wicket victory.[26]
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Australia won by 6 wickets Narendra Modi Stadium,Ahmedabad Umpires:Richard Illingworth (Eng) andRichard Kettleborough (Eng) Player of the match:Travis Head (Aus) |
| India batting[28] | |||||||
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| Rohit Sharma | c Head b Maxwell | 47 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 151.61 | |
| Shubman Gill | c Zampa b Starc | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| Virat Kohli | b Cummins | 54 | 63 | 4 | 0 | 85.71 | |
| Shreyas Iyer | c †Inglis b Cummins | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| KL Rahul | c †Inglis b Starc | 66 | 107 | 1 | 0 | 61.68 | |
| Ravindra Jadeja | c †Inglis b Hazlewood | 9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 40.90 | |
| Suryakumar Yadav | c †Inglis b Hazlewood | 18 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| Mohammed Shami | c †Inglis b Starc | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| Jasprit Bumrah | lbw b Zampa | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Kuldeep Yadav | run out (Labuschagne/Cummins) | 10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| Mohammed Siraj | not out | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 112.50 | |
| Extras | (lb 3, w 9) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (10 wickets; 50 overs) | 240 | 13 | 3 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/30 (Gill, 4.2 ov), 2/76 (Rohit, 9.4 ov), 3/81 (Iyer, 10.2 ov), 4/148 (Kohli, 28.3 ov), 5/178 (Jadeja, 35.5 ov), 6/203 (Rahul, 41.3 ov), 7/211 (Shami, 43.4 ov), 8/214 (Bumrah, 44.5 ov), 9/226 (Yadav, 47.3 ov), 10/240 (Kuldeep, 49.6 ov)
| Australia bowling[28] | |||||||
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Mitchell Starc | 10 | 0 | 55 | 3 | 5.50 | 3 | 0 |
| Josh Hazlewood | 10 | 0 | 60 | 2 | 6.00 | 1 | 0 |
| Glenn Maxwell | 6 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 5.83 | 0 | 0 |
| Pat Cummins | 10 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 3.40 | 2 | 0 |
| Adam Zampa | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 4.40 | 1 | 0 |
| Mitchell Marsh | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Travis Head | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Australia batting[28] | |||||||
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| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
| David Warner | c Kohli b Shami | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 233.33 | |
| Travis Head | c Gill b Siraj | 137 | 120 | 15 | 4 | 114.16 | |
| Mitchell Marsh | c Rahul b Bumrah | 15 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| Steve Smith | lbw b Bumrah | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| Marnus Labuschagne | not out | 58 | 110 | 4 | 0 | 52.72 | |
| Glenn Maxwell | not out | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Josh Inglis | |||||||
| Mitchell Starc | |||||||
| Pat Cummins | |||||||
| Adam Zampa | |||||||
| Josh Hazlewood | |||||||
| Extras | (b 5, lb 2, w 11) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets; 43 overs) | 241 | 22 | 5 | |||
Fall of wickets: 1/16 (Warner, 1.1 ov), 2/41 (Marsh, 4.3 ov), 3/47 (Smith, 6.6 ov), 4/239 (Head, 42.5 ov)
| India bowling[28] | |||||||
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| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 9 | 2 | 43 | 2 | 4.77 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammed Shami | 7 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 6.71 | 3 | 0 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 4.30 | 1 | 0 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 10 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 5.60 | 0 | 0 |
| Mohammed Siraj | 7 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 6.42 | 0 | 0 |
The final match was broadcast live in India onStar Sports,free-to-air broadcasterDD Sports and free onOTT platformDisney+ Hotstar. In Australia the match was broadcast live onFox Sports,Kayo Sports and in free to air onNine Network and it's OTT platform9Now.[29]
The ICC also named the following panel of elite commentators for the final:Harsha Bhogle,Ian Bishop,Aaron Finch,Sunil Gavaskar,Matthew Hayden,Mark Howard,Nasser Hussain,Dinesh Karthik,Sanjay Manjrekar,Eoin Morgan,Kass Naidoo,Ricky Ponting,Ravi Shastri,Ian Smith andShane Watson.[30]
According toBroadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) data, the final was watched by 300 million people on TV, with a peak concurrence of 130 million, making it the most-watched cricket match on TV.Disney+ Hotstar recorded a viewership of 59 million concurrent viewers, the most for any live sporting event on an OTT platform.[31] The final was live-viewed globally for 87.6 billion minutes cumulatively through all media, becoming the most-watched ICC match ever.[32]
During the closing ceremony, adrone show was held along with huge fireworks. After this, Australia's Deputy Prime MinisterRichard Marles, Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi and BCCI SecretaryJay Shah presented the World Cup trophy to Australia's captainPat Cummins.[33][34]
In the aftermath of the match, many supporters of the Indian team took to social media to troll and harass Australian players and their families.[35] Some fans even sent death andrape threats directed at players and their families, resulting in many Australian players filing complaints withCricket Australia and theICC.[36]
Harbhajan Singh, a former player on the Indian team, condemned the trolls, saying "Reports of trolling of family members of Australian cricket players is completely in bad taste. We played well but lost the final to better cricket by the Aussies. That's it. Why troll the players and their families? Requesting all cricket fans to stop such behaviour. Sanity and dignity are more important".[37]It is widely considered biggest heartbreak in Indian cricket.
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