Former Australian great wicketkeeper batsman Adam Gilchrist has shared his thoughts on the upcoming ODI World Cup, particularly about the two finalists who will be playing this year’s World Cup. Gilchrist shared a tweet on X with context, “On the eve of the Men’s Cricket World Cup, all the best to every team. Fond memories. Australia to beat India in the Final for mine.”
A number of players and pundits alike have decided to go with Australia, England and New Zealand as four of three semi-finalists. The fourth place will have a strong contest, especially between South Africa and Pakistan in which South Africa seeming to have the upper hand with most of their players in form.
Australia Enjoys Playing at Chennai
Australia generally playes well in Indian conditions. Whenever they come up with a full strength squad, which is mostly about having key match winners in the side, the team looks hard-nosed competitive. Australia has played 6 ODI matches during their two tours of India, the edge is balanced with both teams having 3 wins to their name.
India will face Australia at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on October 8 which is expected to be a cracking contest. Here comes an interesting stat about this venue, India faced Australia at this venue in a World Cup match in 1987. Australia won that match by 1 run as they defended 270 runs on the board.
Australia, under the captaincy of Steve Smith, played an ODI match at this venue in March 2023 in which the visitors successfully defended 269 runs on board against a star-studded batting line-up of India. Definitely, Australia enjoys playing against India at this particular venue.
On Final between India and Australia
It is a bold thought to predict India and Australia as the finalists. However, no so bold as out of curriculum because both teams have played a decent amount of cricket against each other in these conditions. Australian players, mainly Green, Warner and Maxwell, had superb time in India in IPL 2023.
Just few weeks ago, Australian cricket team captain Pat Cummmins remarked, “On the eve of the Men’s Cricket World Cup, all the best to every team. Fond memories. Australia to beat India in the Final for mine.”
Other teams can’t be left out. England is another dominating team that is virtually in the World Cup finals because they have got a special team that applies team’s philosophy to the game with utmost intensity and clearness. A single Warm-up game has displayed what they are going to do in this World Cup 2023.
