Australia beat India in the final to Clinch their third World Cup Title

In the final of 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, Australia comfortably beat India by 125 runs at New Wanderer’s Stadium, Johannesburg. Australia clinch their third World Cup title and second world cup title in a row. 

Apart from winning the toss, nothing went in favour of India. Opting to field first, Indian bolwers failed to control Australian batting led by captain Ricky Ponting who scored an unbeaten 140*. Other contributors were Damien Martyn (88*), Mathew Hayden (57) and Adam Gilchrist (37). Australia scored 359/2 in 50 overs, the highest total ever made in the history of World Cup finals.

Indian team were bowled out for just 234 in 39.2 overs against some quality Australian bowling. Apart from Sehwag (82 from 81 balls) & Dravid (47) no other Indian batsman was able to score. India lost the match by a whopping margin of 125 runs.

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ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 Final scorecard - India vs Australia

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Match Date : March 23, 2003
Venue : New Wanderer’s Stadium, Johannesburg
Toss : India won the toss and elect to field
Umpires : Steve Bucknor and David Shepherd
Match Result : Australia won by 125 runs to lift the ICC World Cup 2003
Man of the Match : Ricky Ponting

Australia (50 Overs Maximum)

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• Adam Gilchrist (WK) c Sehwag b Harbhajan Singh 57 (48) 8 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
• Matthew Hayden c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh 37 (54) 5 ‘4s’
• Ricky Ponting (C) not out 140 (121) 4 ‘4s’ 8 ‘6s’
• Damien Martyn not out 88 (84) 7 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
• Did Not Bat - Darren Lehmann, Michael Bevan, Andrew Symonds, Bradley Hogg, Andy Bichel, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath

Extras : 37 (Wides: 16 No Balls: 7 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 12)

Total : 359/2 (Overs : 50.0)

Fall of Wickets : 1-105 (Gilchrist, 13.6 ovs), 2-125 (Hayden, 19.5 ovs)

India Bowling

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• Zaheer Khan 7-0-67-0 (6wd 2nb)
• Javagal Srinath 10-0-87-0 (2wd 3nb)
• Ashish Nehra 10-0-57-0 (3wd)
• Harbhajan Singh 8-0-49-2
• Virender Sehwag 3-0-14-0
• Sachin Tendulkar 3-0-20-0 (1wd)
• Dinesh Mongia 7-0-39-0 (2nb)
• Yuvraj Singh 2-0-12-0

India Batting

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• Sachin Tendulkar c&b Glenn McGrath 4 (5) 1 ‘4s’
• Virender Sehwag run out (Lehmann) 82 (81) 10 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
• Sourav Ganguly (C) c Lehmann b Brett Lee 24 (25) 3 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
• Mohammad Kaif c Gilchrist b Glenn McGrath 0 (3)
• Rahul Dravid (WK) b Andy Bichel 47 (57) 2 ‘4s’
• Yuvraj Singh c Lee b Bradley Hogg 24 (34) 1 ‘4s’
• Dinesh Mongia c Martyn b Andrew Symonds 12 (11) 2 ‘4s’
• Harbhajan Singh c McGrath b Andrew Symonds 7 (8)
• Zaheer Khan c Lehmann b Glenn McGrath 4 (8)
• Javagal Srinath b Lee 1 (4)
• Ashish Nehra not out 8 (4) 2 ‘4s’

Extras : 21 (Wides : 9 No Balls: 4 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 4)

Total : 234 all out (Overs : 39.2)

Fall of Wickets : 1-4 (Tendulkar, 0.5 ovs), 2-58 (Ganguly, 9.5 ovs), 3-59 (Kaif, 10.3 ovs), 4-147 (Sehwag, 23.5 ovs), 5-187 (Dravid, 31.5 ovs), 6-208 (Yuvraj Singh, 34.5 ovs), 7-209 (Dinesh Mongia, 35.2 ovs), 8-223 (Harbhajan Singh, 37.1 ovs), 9-226 (Srinath, 38.2 ovs), 10-234 (Zaheer Khan, 39.2 ovs)

Australia Bowling

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• Glenn McGrath 8.2-0-52-3
• Brett Lee 7-1-31-2 (2wd 4nb)
• Bradley Hogg 10-0-61-1 (2wd)
• Darren Lehmann 2-0-18-0
• Andy Bichel 10-0-57-1 (4wd)
• Andrew Symonds 2-0-7-2 (1wd)

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