India vs Australia LIVE: Cricket World Cup final reaction after Travis Head century leads Aussies to victory
Australia stunned hosts India to win the Cricket World Cup final by six wickets in Ahmedabad
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Your support makes all the difference.Australia won a record-extending sixth World Cup title after opener Travis Head smashed a magnificent century to fashion their six-wicket victory in Sunday’s final against the tournament’s form team India.
Put into bat, India rode battling half-centuries by KL Rahul and Virat Kohli to post a below-par 240 all out in exactly 50 overs at a packed Narendra Modi Stadium.
Australia suffered a top-order wobble of their own but Head’s 137 off 120 balls saw them romp home with seven overs to spare in a match that never reached great heights.
Around 93,000 predominantly Indian fans sat mostly in deathly silence as the home team, who had won 10 matches in a row to make the final, succumbed to their first loss of the tournament
Relive all the match action and reaction below:
India 162-4 (32) KL Rahul 45, Jadeja 5, Zampa 0-29 (7)
Zampa will continue, it is all looking quite straightforward for Australia at the moment. But India still have wickets in hand and enough firepower to attack in the final 10 overs.
Just four runs from the over.
India 158-4 (31) KL Rahul 43, Jadeja 3, Cummins 2-23 (7)
Cummins will bowl his seventh here, he already has the key wicket of Virat Kohli, but Australia will want to turn the screw here.
A two off the first ball but after that it’s kept tight and India have added just four runs to the total from the over.
India 152-4 (30) KL Rauhl 39, Jadeja 1, Zampa 0-25 (6)
After that key over Australia turn to Zampa. There’s an umpire review for stumping against Jadeja who has only just come to the crease but his back foot did not move.
India 149-4 (29) KL Rahul 37, Jadeja 0, Cummins 2-17 (6)
Cummins has taken key wickets in this match, his bowling throughout the tournament has not been the best in the early period, despite being good at the death, but he has the key wicket here and Kohli has to depart.
He had looked unflappable until just miss-timing that delivery and Jadeja has come out to join KL Rahul at the crease.
The crowd has just gone quiet.
Wicket! Kohli out for 54! b Cummins India 148-4
Cummins will bowl his 6th over here, the first two balls are tapped away for singles.
Cummins strikes! Virat Kohli has played onto his stumps!
It was banged into the surface and just got up on him a bit and all he could do was edge it onto the stumps, Cummins wheels away in celebration and that is a crucial breakthrough.
India 146-3 (28) Kohli 53, KL Rahul 36, Zampa 0-22 (5)
Zampa is into his fifth over here. KL Rahul gets an early single to bring Kohli on strike.
He taps it into the leg side for an easy single. The scoreboard has not stopped ticking along and the dot balls have not been allowed to build up, but it has not been enthralling batting, although it has been exactly what the situation called for.
Four singles from the over.
India 142-3 (27) Kohli 51, KL Rahul 34, Maxwell 1-34 (5)
Maxwell comes back on and KL Rahul has hit this one away to the boundary! It had taken 97 balls, but KL Rahul employed the paddle to score a four fine past the keeper.
With that boundary it was a more prolific over though, seven runs from it.
India 135-3 (26) Kohli 50, KL Rahul 28, Zampa 0-18 (4)
David Warner has put in a stunning dive to prevent the first boundary for a long time, he was full stretch and just got a hand to it.
Just four runs from the over.
Virat Kohli 50! India 132-3
Zampa is back on, nine different bowlers have been used recently, and Kohli has brought up his half century with a single from the first ball.
It came from 56 balls, and he had to weather the storm a bit after the three early wickets.
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