Today, an undefeated India goes to the 2023 cricket World Cup final after beating New Zealand by 70 runs at the Wankade stadium in Mumbai.
What a magnet of cricket. Rohit Sharma and the clan went beyond the edge with a massive 397 runs against Kiwi runners-up last World Cup, recognised as a non-threat enemy.
An uncommon toss
After the Uncommon toss won, Sharma decided to bat first. The Indian skipper had a coin, and he tossed it away from their view. The match referee needed to go a few steps from them to collect the coin and say it was head. Who knows which side is on the top of the coin? The only match referee was the eyewitness.
Before the match, the New Zealand team had a complaint about the pitch. They blame the Indians for changing pitch number seven to six without informing the ICC. According to the ICC match schedule, this particular match should be played in pitch number seven. That is an unused fresh track, but India suddenly decided to use pitch number six instead of seven. Why that?
Changing pitch without inform ICC
Pitch number six has been used twice in this tournament. It is not grassy like other pitches used for Indian matches. There is no extra bounce to help fast bowlers and paradise for the batters. Why did India decide to bat first? An uncommon toss-winning allowed them to get that decision easily.
Anyway, every New Zealand fast bowler is stuck in this brown pitch. No bounce, no swing. There is no threat to the Indian batters from the kiwi bowlers anyhow.
That was an easy pitch for the Indian batters. They collected runs freely.
Quick 47 by Rohit Sharma followed by Shubman Gill’s 80 unless 100 if he did not get injured. Virat Kohli is always smiling at the wicket today and scored 117. Shreyas Iyer hit eight sixes and four boundaries everywhere around the ground, including his 107 in the 70 balls.
just like action Indian movie
Definitely, that was an Indian blockbuster movie played in the wankade stadium today with a pack of a full house. The whole day was a climax scene in the seven-hour film, which acted world-famous modern cricketers surrounded by mighty Indian cricket lunatics.
These beautiful people included film stars like Rajinikanth and Ranbir Kapoor and many more Indian beauties and attractive males and females. They happily enjoy Indian background music that always plays dancing tunes.What a pure Indian display at Wankade Stadium today. 397 for four wickets in front of the mighty Kiwi’s face attack.
On the other hand, New Zealanders were very disappointed about this kind of wicket India gave. Has India taken advantage of hosting the tournament? Controversial conspiracy theories are flowing over social media, as well as some former cricketers around the world. one of the former Pakistan cricketers blamed them for using a different ball when the Indians were bowling.
Also, today, New Zealand has blamed them for the pitch. This particular pitch actually helped the Indian batters and bowlers.No doubt about that. They won the match 60 per cent when Rohit won the toss.
397 runs is unreachable
Anyway, 397 is too high to chase in front of the Indian bowlers. New Zealand knows that very well. Their two openers struggled at the wicket. front runner Rachin Ravindra, who scored the most runs in the tournament for New Zealand, struggled very badly in front of the Indian pacemen. Ravindra got out for 13 runs as a second wicket at 39 on the board.
Devon Conway also scored just 13 runs. Both were confused in front of the Indian fast bowlers because of the uneven bounce. The ball did not come to the bat properly. It did not bounce as they expected. That has been expected because of the behaviour of the pitch India prepared.
Under the floodlights, it was more difficult for the batters.
Somehow, Daryl Mitchell and Kane Williamson managed Indian bowlers and collected 181 runs in a partnership made for the 3rd wicket by them.
But it was not enough for the reach, given the target by the Indians to win the match.
Mohmmod shami is the key
Mohammed Shami has destroyed New Zealand innings. Shami got seven wickets for 57 runs. It was the best bowling figures in this World Cup. It includes the most valuable Daryl Mitchell’s wicket, which scored 134 runs for the New Zealand total.
Shami has a variable bowling style. He has confused batters delivering bowling mixture. He broke the backbone of New Zealand: four front-line batters and three tail-enders were victims to him.
Today is the Indian’s day. Everything happened in the way the Indians expected. They are the most talented team in this World Cup. Unbelievably, India won all the matches they played, 10 out of 10. who can do this in international cricket. But they did it.
Just one to go. That will be a huge one. That will not only be a regular match between the two sides but also make world champions for the next four years. Who will be their opponent? It will be decided tomorrow. It may be Australia or South Africa.
South Africa is the team that has never won a cricket World Cup. Australia and India won many times. South Africa is the most unlucky team in the cricket world to win this kind of trophy. But this time, they approach the World Cup very differently.
They are a very talented and enthusiastic team that played well this year. Even in this time, they proudly got into the semi-final. No matter what happens, South Africa will fight to go through the semi-final against Australia to reach the final they never achieved.
They deserve it. But no one is giving up India or Australia. Both are winners. They have lots of trophies and cups in their cabinet. But nobody is giving away their chance. South Africa has to fight them.it is a challenging task. This year, India, Australia or South Africa will win the World Cup. We will see it within another few days.
