Where did India lose the World Cup Final vs Australia? Cricbuzz Live decodes

India failed to defend 240 against Australia in the 2023 World Cup final. Where did Rohit & Co. lose the plot? Zaheer Khan & Parthiv Patel decode, on Cricbuzz Live

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[danieljoseph]

The Indian Team is pampered by the media and the BCCI and the whole country. Australia went and played like real men despite all the criticism....Props to where is due....The Real men won...

[alansmitheejr.]

Australia made things happen, India were hoping for things to happen.

[cmadelaide]

Without watching the video I’m going to guess the reasons put forward:
1. Absolutely no mention of Australia (or if so they were just really really lucky)
2. The pitch. (The pitch designed to favour spinners and blunt paceman was too slow and didn’t spin)
3. The toss. (Despite India still batting first even if RS had won the toss)
4. Kohli and Rahul stat padding (despite stabilising the innings and protecting a vulnerable tail)
5. Suryakumar coming into bat after Jadega instead of before (like it would have made a difference)
6. Luck (selective memory of lucky Australian moments but not Indias)
7. Absolutely no mention of the over-confident buildup and underestimation of any opponent.
8. Karthik will appear with fake tears and sombre music at the end with shallow words about fate. (nothing about him being shown up as a cocky prat now looking like a fool).

[binaldoshi]

Ricky Ponting said in commentary - If Australia lose today, the management immediately starts thinking what can we do starting today to ensure that in 4 years we have a WC winning team. That is the mentality we need to build tournament winning teams. Very proud but also very disappointed in how some individual players (Rahul and Kohli) showed visible disappointment or slowed play on not getting/to achieve milestones. That was bad form.

[debayanporel]

If bringing in Shami was not a desperate but a tactical decision then I don't know what actually desperation is. Suppose a team's top batsman has been their number 4 and in the final they have to chase 400. So that batsman will come to open to show that we are attacking? Come on Parthiv this was such a loose comment.

[philhogan]

Australia's fielding was terrific. If you add up all the runs they saved it's almost like India being one batsman down, plus it puts extra pressure on and forces mistakes.

[shreyaa]

True May be India dint have belief that 240 is not enough. Because of which there were tactical changes in bowling like shami opening the bowling, Siraj coming to bowl in the 17th over, not putting enough pressure or attacking to pick wickets. Surprised to see no slip for spinner first time by ind in the tournament barring first few overs of spin. Leaking easy singles & waiting for a batsmen to make a mistake. India was playing with attacking mindset more against netherland match than in the final.

[ad_]

Firstly congrats to the Australian team, they went in with a rock solid plan to contain Indian batting and pulled it off beautifully. The equation in this game was pretty simple, take out Rohit, Gill and Iyer cheaply who collectively scored nearly 250 runs in the semi and you have pretty much won the game, Kohli & Rahul got stuck in 3rd gear and scored what was expected of them to get India to 240 while they needed more like 350 to challenge Australia.

[Robrulzicloud]

Great achievement for India to make the World Cup final coming in unbeaten the Aussies 9 straight wins, Facts are no matter what india done OUR AUSSIE BOYS WERE NEVER LOSING 🇦🇺🏆🏏❤️🇦🇺 congratulations team AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

[Seekingtruth]

The main reason was our long tail. 8, 9, 10, 11 are number 11 batsman. All are top class bowlers but none can make 10 runs at least consistently. That is why the main batsman have to make sure that they have to be there till the 50th over. Even if India made 200 in 40 over but lost 5 wickets, they are reluctant to shift the gear and go attacking in fear of India may not play full innings. Australia, South Africa and New Zealand bat deep. It was India’s Achilles weakness and Australia hit it hard, managed to get wickets in the middle orders. Remaining batsmen caught up with confusion when to attack and lost their wickets and didn’t score any.

[Yash-difp]

We are talking about attacking mindset during bowling but when you have 240 on board you can't . If there is need of attacking mindset than it's in middle overs during batting .

[davidparsons]

Credit where credit is see this as the greatest victory in Australian sport...considering what they faced in this tornament....140, 000 Indians at home against an imperious Indian brilliance..there is no hindsight in sport it happens in the moment not after

[AbhishekSingh-fnlo]

Actually it was a gamble taken by India in this big match by preparing such a dry and two paced pitch and it backfired. It seems that they hoped to have toss going their way so as to field first and trouble the Australian batsmen and restrict them to a low total. (you might think that Rohit also wanted to bat first as he said at the toss. But I dont think so. He also would have bowled first if he would have won the toss given how much the pitch was dry during the day. Its a tactical thing used by a Captain to say that nevertheless we also wanted to bat first in order to create doubts in the mind of opposition Captain whether he took the right decision or not) And then chase the total underlights when the pitch becomes easier to bat on. Unfortunately, that didnt happen from Indian perspective.

I am not giving excuse for India's loss by blaming the pitch. But my question is why why do you want to prepare such kind of pitch and that too in the final ?? why take risk in such a big match ?....its like a lottery which can go either way. And it went Australia's way. They took full advantage of the tough batting conditions during the day after winning the toss and restricted India to a low total.

How can you take such a risk at such an stage by offering such a super dry and slow pitch???

This just shows that India were having fear of losing and were under confident. Instead they should have put aside the fear of losing and should have told themselves that come on we are going to play fearlessly, lets prepare a good even wicket (with some spin). They should have trusted their batsmen to chase down any target even if they lose the toss and field first.

[raytracker]

For me the game was lost during the Kohli, rahul partnership. No matter how good the bowling side is, you cannot be sooo defensive. You need to take a bit of calculated risks and disrupt the rhythm of the bowlers. No one even attacked the part time bowlers. Only 5 boundaries in the last 40 overs of a one day game is criminal batting. It's like they were playing with 250 runs target on their minds. Even Australia lost 3 early wickets but they didn't get back into the shells like India did. Yes they batted sensibly for a few overs but after that they also played their shots and broke the shackles. That is just poor pressure handling by team India.

[robmike]

This is the major reason. See the batting middle order differences

2011 2023
Viral kohli Shreyas Iyer
Yuvraj Singh KL Rahul
MS Dhoni Surya Kumar Yadav
suresh Raina Jadega

[KuchNahiBasAiseHi]

Since things have settling down now a bit, it looks like BCCI doing over the top stuff before final (air shows, captain parade, hosting PM for final) caused the unnecessary pressure on team and hence their meltdown. whereas on the opposite, Aus felt no to little pressure (their PM not visiting also helped in this sense).
India caused it's own downfall by doing such stuff.

[BalefulBunyip]

As an Australian I enjoyed this World Cup enormously. Watching Australia play of course, but also India a superb side who played a supurb series. The behaviour of the crowd at the final however was disappointing: Booing the umpires at the end, remaining silent at Head's century, going silent and leaving early when the Indian team’s defeat seemed inevitable. Fans chanting 'Rohit, Rohit' when Australia were handed the trophy. All of which demonstrated a disrespect for the players and the game that I found disturbing and unprecedented. I understand the disappointment of the Indian fans after all the hype and expectation but this was a very bad look for India in front of an international audience of billions. It spoilt the series for me. It was a childish display of petulance that has no place in cricket. I expected more of India.

[trixiebell]

The tagline of this World Cup was "It Takes One Day" and that's all that happened. India won 10 games in a row, but all it took was one day for another team to best them. It just so happens that one day was the Final.

[vivekjain]

Missing things
1) no sweep short to spinners.
2) easy singles after 10 overs.
3) Leaking too many runs as extra.

Australia almost saved 10 boundaries that cost. 20-30 runs while we have given extra 20-30 to them in starting