ODI World Cup 2023

[Pies4shaw]

Top run scorers for the tournament:

Kohli - 765 at an average of 95.62
Rohit - 597 at 54.27
de Kock - 594 at 59.4
Ravindra - 578 at 64.22
Mitchell - 552 at 69
Davy "Defective technique"(ho ho ho) Warner - 535 at 48.63

Top wicket-takers:

Shami 24
Zampa 23
Madushanka 21
Bumrah 20
Coetzee 20

Head was obviously the batting Player of the Finals - POTM against both South Africa and India. 199 runs across two games in which the opposition between them only managed 455. His two wickets in two balls in the middle of the South African innings must make him the all-round Player of the Finals - he took as many wickets as any South African or Indian took against Australia. Apart from Head, Warner's 29 and Smith's 30 provided good support against South Africa and Marnus' 58* was the second-best batting for Australia in the Final.

As to the bowling (aside from Head) in the Finals, well - Starc 3/34 and 3/55, Cummins 3/51 and 2/34, Hazlewood 2/12 and 2/60. That's 15 out of 20 wickets from the fast bowlers in difficult conditions.

[Pies4shaw]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/ ... tch-report

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/ ... inal-twist

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc ... tch-report

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/aust ... ia-1409729

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc- ... st-1409761

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc- ... al-1409791

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc- ... ld-1409740

[Culprit]

Watching one of the greatest upsets of all time was worth losing sleep over. What a win along with some stellar performances. The Indian crowd was kept silent for most of the game and many a tear shed as they were left shocked. Kohli being bowled by Cummins was a special moment, he couldn't believe he was out nor could the crowd. Gimme's catch was amazing and then came out and just smashed it everywhere.

[Pies4shaw]

Travis Head, this year, has been player of the match in the World Test Championship Final against India at The Oval (163 from 174 balls), outshining even the epoch-defining Bradsmith's 121, player of the match against NZ in the World Cup group stage (109 from just 67 balls), player of the match in the Semi-Final against South Africa (62 from 48 balls and 2/21) and player of the match in the Final against India (137 from 120 balls).

That's some going.

[Culprit]

^^In between wrestling crocodiles re his rough looks.

[stui magpie]

Did England still win the Moral World Cup?

[Pies4shaw]

^ And the Participation World Cup, as well - although they shared that with 9 other teams. But, of course, sharing is a good thing.

[Donny]

Quite fantastic, in the true sense of the word.

Lost the first 2 matches and won the next 9.

In last night's amazing game, Trav Head set the tone with a superb, near unbelievable, catch. This inspired the whole team, and the thousands of Aussie fans, back home, who were somewhat bemused at the decision to bowl first.

The rest is now history.

[Donny]

"It's been pretty much through the whole Aussie winter away overseas playing but we've had a lot of success and this pips it all, this is at the top of the mountain"

Pat Cummins

[Donny]

Travis Head, this year, has been player of the match in the World Test Championship Final against India at The Oval (163 from 174 balls), outshining even the epoch-defining Bradsmith's 121, player of the match against NZ in the World Cup group stage (109 from just 67 balls), player of the match in the Semi-Final against South Africa (62 from 48 balls and 2/21) and player of the match in the Final against India (137 from 120 balls).

That's some going.

Thanks for highlighting all that, mate. Also for the links, earlier.

[K]

Did England still win the Moral World Cup?

It's a bit hard for them to win that when their Test captain almost bashed a man to death in a drunken rage in Bristol, all caught on security camera so there are no doubts 'bout what happened.

[K]

Cummins and co. deserved the benefit of the doubt when putting India in to bat. With some teams you might worry it was a strained reaction betraying fear, but they've never struck me as prone to that kind of thing.
...

Wow... that's faint support!!

Manjrekar and Morgan (to name just two commentators) really liked the decision, even early in India's innings.

True, Mark Taylor said he was surprised.


But about Cummins: I was bit when media reported he'd only captained 2 ODIs before the WC started. Hadn't been counting. That's not a lotta ODI captaincy experience. Only natural he'd take a few games to get into his groove.

[K]

I'm being painfully reminded why cricket lovers turned against 50 over games.

It's those dead boring middle overs. Field set deep and the 2 batsmen simply pushing balls for singles. Only the bad balls would sometimes get hit for 4s.

No, don't agree. Not boring at all. Full of tension. They'd lost 3 wickets. And no one knew exactly what'd be a good score.

I'll tell ya what's "dead boring". It's those 350-400 FTB pitches where bowlers have nothing. And then it's just which team can outslog the other team. A wicket falls, nobody cares. A ball is slogged into the stands, yawn. (It's just expected.) Single balls or overs don't matter.

That's what made the SF (Oz/SA) and F good for cricket. There was something for the bowlers. Even then, the fanboys of slogging got what they wanted. e.g. in the SF Miller hit a lotta sixes and got a century.

[Pies4shaw]

Mitchell Starc is third all-time for wickets at the World Cup Finals. His 65 wickets in 28 matches at an average of 19.29 put him behind only Muralitharan (68 wickets in 40 matches) and Glenn McGrath (71 wickets in 39 matches).

Meanwhile, David Warner is now 2nd all-time for runs for Australia at World Cup Finals, with 1,527 runs in 29 matches at an average of 56.55, behind only Ponting with 1,743 (although Ponting played in 46 ODI World Cup matches and only averaged 45.86).

SPD Bradsmith remains the only Australian (and one of only two players - the other being Kohli) to have scored 5 consecutive 50s at the ODI World Cup Finals.

Maxwell is the leading run-scorer all-time at number 6 for any team at World Cups (509 runs at the ridiculous average of 63.62). The only other Australian in the list, believe it or not, is Alex Carey, who has scored 329 runs batting at 7.

[K]

...
Zampa stats:

"Those are Warne-esque areas. The best haul the King had at a World Cup was 20 in 1999, while Zampa broke Brad Hogg’s Australian record of 21 from the 2007 tournament.

One more wicket on Sunday and he will equal Muttiah Muralidaran’s all-time spinners’ record of 23 for a World Cup, also set in 2007, but he is hoping for many more."

AZ took one wicket to match Murali's record.

Shami also took one to be the WC's leading wicket-taker with 24.