Thats the 3rd World Cup for Australia! short and he tried a pull skied for a simple one to Lehmann at mid on. Celebrations in the Aussie ranks, deservedly a great win by 125 runs
Australia vs India, Final at Johannesburg, Mar 23 2003 - Match Result
RESULT
Final, Johannesburg, March 23, 2003, ICC World Cup
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Australia • 359/2(50 overs)
140* (121)
2/49 (8)
88* (84)
0/14 (3)
India • 234/10(39.2 overs)
82 (81)
3/52 (8.2)
47 (57)
2/7 (2)
Cheers and Aus team carries their flag and take bows from the crowd as they take a lap of honour
India still had a chance when even after losing Tendulkar Sehwag took over the role, were keeping up with the rate but Australian bowlers carried on professionally and got home easily at the end
We shall soon have the cermonies folk so please stand by
A please Dr bacher summarised the game and said it was a great success (meaning the world cup and the final)
We are ready for the ceremonies
The first hour of play was India's undoing when Hayden and Gilchrist were on song
Aussie players carryin Aus flags
There is the odd stuffed kangaroo too, Bichel has one holding is the MC today for the final, intros all the ICC and other top brass
Graeme Pollock and Sobers out there too
ICC boss Malcolm Grey pays compliments to South Africa for so well organising this Cup
Congratulates Ponting and his team and Ganguly and his team
Various other congrats to officials and their awards
Indian players come up for their medals
USD 800,000 to the losing teams and Ganguly says he is disappointed but Australia did well
Congratulates his team and says they got us here and made us proud and also thanks his supporters
Man of the Match Ricky Ponting
Says everything went well and batsmen did the job
Man of the Tournament is Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin says we did not start well and pressure was on the bowlers but have bowled well for the tournament
Aus team gets the medals
Holding first says 2000 and on Pontings query, corrects to USD 2 million, and goes and lifts the World Cup!
We hope you liked the coverage of this world cup and we look forward to bringing the next one from West Indies in 4 years, tho there will be lots of cricket in between
Good Bye all
39.2
W
McGrath to Khan, OUT
Zaheer Khan c Lehmann b McGrath 4 (8b 0x4 0x6 20m) SR: 50
39.1
•
McGrath to Khan, no run
a yorker dug out to leg
A comical scene, Bucknor picks up one of McGrats shoes and walks away while he was changing them
end of over 398 runs • 1 wicket
IND: 234/9CRR: 6.00 • RRR: 11.45
Ashish Nehra8 (4b 2x4)
Zaheer Khan4 (6b)
Brett Lee 7-1-31-2
Andrew Symonds 2-0-7-2
38.6
4
Lee to Nehra, FOUR runs
Another! take that Nehra says after field set for aggression, slams the most consistent fast bowler in the world to long on
38.5
4
Lee to Nehra, FOUR runs
in the slot, drives it in the air over mid off
38.4
•
Lee to Nehra, no run
another full ball, drives aNd edges to mid on
38.3
•
Lee to Nehra, no run
another yorking try, dug out to short cover
Lee needs 1 more to equal Vaas this world cup
Last man Nehra in
38.2
W
Lee to Srinath, OUT
Yorked! moved away and its through, leg stump gone and 22 wickets for lee this cup
Javagal Srinath b Lee 1 (4b 0x4 0x6 6m) SR: 25
38.1
•
Lee to Srinath, no run
makes room, moving to leg, heaves and edges to short mid wicket
Lee brought on to boaw at the co-pacers
end of over 383 runs • 1 wicket
IND: 226/8CRR: 5.94 • RRR: 11.16
Javagal Srinath1 (2b)
Zaheer Khan4 (6b)
Andrew Symonds 2-0-7-2
Darren Lehmann 2-0-18-0
37.6
1
Symonds to Srinath, 1 run
short and he pulls, drops well in front of lee at long leg
37.5
•
Symonds to Srinath, no run
defends to mid on
37.4
1
Symonds to Khan, 1 run
tucks it off his legs to deep square
37.3
•
Symonds to Khan, no run
beaten outside off
37.2
•
Symonds to Khan, no run
an inside edge and its very close to leg stump
37.2
1w
Symonds to Khan, 1 wide
down the legside
Srinath in but Khan to face as they did cross
37.1
W
Symonds to Harbhajan, OUT
a short one and it rose, Harby went for a pull and sent it down McGrath's throat at fine leg
Harbhajan Singh c McGrath b Symonds 7 (8b 0x4 0x6 12m) SR: 87.5
end of over 3710 runs
IND: 223/7CRR: 6.02 • RRR: 10.53
Harbhajan Singh7 (7b)
Zaheer Khan3 (3b)
Darren Lehmann 2-0-18-0
Andrew Symonds 1-0-4-1
36.6
1
Lehmann to Harbhajan, 1 run
a cross batted swipe to mid wicket, could not time it for a four
36.5
4b
Lehmann to Harbhajan, 4 byes
was a big miss trying to loft it and a possible missed stumping
36.4
1
Lehmann to Khan, 1 run
turned to fine leg and hogg dives to save
36.3
3
Lehmann to Harbhajan, 3 runs
edged to third man, long chase for martyn
36.2
•
Lehmann to Harbhajan, no run
a round armer, defends it forward
Match details
| New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg | |
| Toss | India, elected to field first |
| Series | |
| Season | 2002/03 |
| Player Of The Match | |
| Player Of The Series | |
| Series result | Australia won the 2002/03 ICC World Cup |
| Match number | ODI no. 1993 |
| Match days | day (50-over match) |
| Umpires | |
| TV Umpire | |
| Match Referee | |