IND vs AUS Final / India gave Australia a target of 241 in the first innings, Rahul and Virat scored half centuries.

IND vs AUS Final: India has given Australia a target of 241 runs to win in the final match of World Cup 2023. Batting after losing the toss at the PM Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the team was all out after scoring 240 runs in 50 overs. Team India has been all out for the first time in this World Cup. For the Indian team, Virat Kohli scored 54 runs and KL Rahul scored 66 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma gave a fast start to India by scoring 47 runs in 31 balls, but the rest of the players could not continue this pace. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets for the Australian team. Pat Cummins got 2 wickets.

Kohli was out after scoring 54 runs

Virat Kohli, who came to bat at number-3 from India, was out after scoring 54 runs. He was bowled by Pat Cummins. After coming to bat in the 5th over, Virat scored runs quickly, but after 3 wickets fell, he slowed down the innings and took control of Team India.

Virat was set after completing his fifty, but in the 29th over, he was bowled while trying to take a single on the short pitch of Pat Cummins. The ball hit his bat and entered the stumps. After Virat's dismissal, Team India's score became 148 runs for 4 wickets.

Rohit missed fifty for the 5th time

Team India captain Rohit Sharma once gave a fast start to the team in the World Cup. He scored 47 runs on just 31 balls, but was out in the 10th over itself. Rohit hit 4 fours and 3 sixes in the innings.

Rohit was out for the fifth time in 11 innings of the tournament with a score between 40 and 49 runs. Earlier, he had been out after scoring 48 runs against Bangladesh, 46 against New Zealand, 40 against South Africa and also after scoring 47 runs in the semi-finals.

Team India captain Rohit Sharma scored 597 runs in ODI World Cup 2023. He became the player who scored the most runs as a captain in a World Cup. Rohit broke the record of New Zealand's Kane Williamson, who had scored 578 runs as captain in 2019.

Indian openers returned to the pavilion in Powerplay-1; score 80/2

Captain Rohit Sharma gave a fast start to Team India, which came to bat first after losing the toss in the World Cup final. He attacked Josh Hazlewood, but Shubman Gill was seen under pressure in front of him. Shubman became the victim of Mitchell Starc after scoring only 4 runs. Virat Kohli, who came after him, also scored fast. In the 10th over, Rohit Sharma also scored 10 runs in 2 balls but got out while trying to play a big shot on the third ball. The team scored 80 runs in 10 overs but also lost 2 big wickets.

The team chasing the target won the last 3 finals, the team winning the toss lost.

Before the final, 4 matches were played in this tournament at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The team batting later in 3 wins.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma said that if he had won the toss, he would have decided to bat first. That means the wishes of both the captains were fulfilled. By the way, Rohit won the toss 6 times in this tournament and decided to bat thrice and bowl thrice. Team India won every match.

Since 2011, the team chasing the target in the final three consecutive times has won the title match. However, on all three occasions the team that won the toss has lost.

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.

Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), David Warner, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood.