2003 Cricket World Cup final
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Date | 23 March 2003 | ||||||||
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Venue | 2007 → |
The 2003 Cricket World Cup Final was a
Both teams had progressed through three stages to reach the final. Australia was unbeaten thus far, while India had lost one game—against Australia in the first stage. Australia—led by
In response, India lost their key batsman,
Background
Format
The 2003 Cricket World Cup was the eighth World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The competition took place between 9 February and 23 March 2003, lasting 43 days. Co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya, the tournament was the first World Cup to be played in Africa.[3] There were 14 participating teams, the largest number in a World Cup until then. As well as the 10 Test-playing nations, four associate teams took part. Kenya, by virtue of its ODI status, automatically qualified for the tournament; Canada, Namibia and Netherlands—the top three teams of the 2001 ICC Trophy—formed the rest.[4]
The structure of the tournament was similar to that of the 1999 World Cup. The 14 countries were separated into two groups of seven; each team played the others in its group once. The most successful three from each group qualified for the Super Sixes stage,[4] a format which was introduced in the 1999 tournament.[3] Each qualifier carried forward their points from the first stage and played one game against each of the three teams from the other group. The top four teams from the Super Sixes qualified for the semi-finals, and the winners of those matches contested the final. A total of 54 matches were played in the tournament.[5]
The matches were played according to the standard rules of a One Day International (ODI). Each side batted for a maximum of 50 overs,[b][7] and fielding restrictions applied for the bowling side. For the first 15 overs only two fielders were allowed outside the infield, and for the rest of the innings four fielders (including a bowler and the wicket-keeper) had to be deployed in the infield. No player was allowed to bowl more than 10 overs in an innings.[8]
Squads
The
Having won 15 out of their 18 ODIs leading up the start of the tournament, the defending champions Australia were deemed one of the favourites to reach the semi-finals.[18] They had previously won the 1987 and 1999 tournaments. In contrast, some commentators considered it doubtful whether India would qualify for the Super Sixes stage. They had won the competition once, in 1983, but had recently lost an ODI series against West Indies at home, and were defeated heavily in their tour of New Zealand.[19][20]
Route to the final
Group stage
Australia and India were both in Pool A of the competition. Australia won all their matches in the group stage. Except for their win against England, when they recovered from 135 for 8 to reach the target of 205 runs, they won all their matches comfortably.[12]
India had a shaky start to the tournament.
Australia, India and Zimbabwe finished the group as the top three teams and qualified for the Super Sixes from Pool A,[19] while Pool B had Sri Lanka, Kenya and New Zealand progress for the next stage.[12]
Super Sixes
In the first match of the Super Sixes against Sri Lanka, Australia made 319 runs for five wickets. The Australian captain
After losing the toss against Kenya in their first match, India were set a target of 226 runs. Despite an initial collapse, their captain Sourav Ganguly (107 not out) and Yuvraj Singh (58 not out) ensured India's victory.[29] In the next game against Sri Lanka, India made 292 runs; Tendulkar (97) and Sehwag (66) top-scored for the team. Srinath took four wickets as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 109, and India won the match by a margin of 183 runs.[30] In their final match of the stage, India played New Zealand. Zaheer Khan returned career-best figures of four wickets for 42 runs, and New Zealand were dismissed for 146 runs. India lost three wickets for 21 runs, before Dravid, their vice-captain,[16] and Kaif added 129 runs for the fourth wicket and ensured a seven-wicket win. The match marked the seventh consecutive victory for India in the tournament.[31]
Semi-finals
The first semi-final was played between Australia and Sri Lanka on 18 March at
The second semi-final was played between India and Kenya on 20 March 2003 at
Build up
Many journalists considered Australia, undefeated throughout the tournament, to be favourites in the final.[39][40] The Indian industrialist Vijay Mallya organised special flights, including a few chartered ones, to transport film actors, politicians and businessmen to Johannesburg;[41] most of these people supported India. Some South African airlines also extended their support to India.[42] The air tickets from Mumbai to Johannesburg were completely sold out immediately after India entered the Super Sixes stage.[43] Although most journalists and analysts favoured Australia, former Pakistan captain Imran Khan believed India were favourites. Former Australia cricketer Greg Chappell complimented Brett Lee: he said, except for Lee, no Australian bowler was a serious threat to the Indian batsmen, and also remarked that the "duel" between Lee and Tendulkar would be crucial.[44]
On the eve of the match, which would be his 100th ODI as India's captain, Ganguly issued a statement saying his team were honoured to play the World Cup final. He cited India's victories at the 1983 World Cup and the 1985 World Championship of Cricket as his inspirations.[45] Although acknowledging Australia as the best side in the world, he said they were not "unbeatable".[46] Australia's main concern was Tendulkar, the tournament's top-scorer, of whom the Indian fans had high expectations.[12] Ponting hinted about the possibility that his bowlers, Lee and Glenn McGrath, had "special" plans to restrict him.[46] He also said that in crucial matches his team "tries to reach another level".[47]
Australia were making their 5th appearance in a World Cup final. Previously, they won finals in
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India's Sachin Tendulkar was the tournament's top-scorer with 675 runs.
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India captain Sourav Ganguly was the second-highest run scorer in the tournament.
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Australia captain Ricky Ponting scored 415 runs in the tournament.
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Australia's Brett Lee was the tournament's second-highest wicket taker.
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Andrew Symonds played two important innings, each against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, to lead Australia to victory.
Final
Summary
The final was played on 23 March 2003 at the
India remained unchanged from the side that played the semi-final, while Australia excluded Ian Harvey and brought back Damien Martyn into the side. Ganguly won the toss and elected to field first.[52] Zaheer Khan opened the bowling for India along with Javagal Srinath. The Australian openers scored aggressively from the beginning of the innings as Khan conceded 15 runs in the first over.[54] Gilchrist in particular hit both Khan and Srinath for many runs and reached his 50 from 40 balls. When Ganguly turned to his spin bowlers as early as the tenth over, Gilchrist slowed his scoring rate. In the fourteenth over, when Harbhajan Singh was brought back to bowl, Gilchrist (57 off 48 balls) tried to hit him over the mid-wicket, but was beaten by the ball's extra bounce and caught in the deep by Virender Sehwag.[54] The pair had added 105 runs for the first wicket.[55] Harbhajan struck again in the twentieth over when he dismissed Hayden (37 runs off 54 balls), leaving the score at 125 runs.[54]
After Hayden's departure, Ponting was joined by Martyn, who completed his half-century in 46 balls.
India came out to bat with Tendulkar and Sehwag. McGrath opened the bowling for Australia. Tendulkar hit a boundary off the fourth ball of the over but was dismissed off the next delivery.[54] Ganguly joined Sehwag and the pair scored at a run-a-ball before the former was dismissed by Lee in the tenth over. Kaif, the next man, was dismissed in the same over with the score 46 runs for 3 wickets. Dravid and Sehwag scored steadily from then on until the seventeenth over,[21] when rain interrupted play with the score at 103 runs.[54] After play resumed, Ponting brought in Australia's spinners, Brad Hogg and Darren Lehmann. Sehwag was more aggressive against both, hitting Lehmann for three consecutive fours and Hogg for a four and six; Dravid played a secondary role to Sehwag, pushing often for singles. They were dismissed in quick succession after making 122 (off 111 balls) and 77 (off 77 balls) respectively.[54] Following that, India began to lose wickets at regular intervals. Except for Yuvraj Singh (34), Dinesh Mongia (15), Ashish Nehra (25) and Harbhajan Singh (28) the rest of the players were out for single-digit scores.[54] India were bowled out for 234 after 39.4 overs.[58] Australia won the match by 125 runs.[59] It was their second successive World Cup trophy and their third overall.[60] Ponting was declared the Man of the match for his 140 not out.[2]
Scorecard
- 1st innings
Australia batting[1] | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
Adam Gilchrist † | c Sehwag b Harbhajan Singh | 57 | 48 | 8 | 1 | 118.75 | |
Matthew Hayden | c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh | 37 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 68.51 | |
Ricky Ponting * | not out | 140 | 121 | 4 | 8 | 107.43 | |
Damien Martyn | not out | 88 | 84 | 7 | 1 | 104.76 | |
Darren Lehmann | |||||||
Michael Bevan | |||||||
Andrew Symonds | |||||||
Brad Hogg | |||||||
Andy Bichel | |||||||
Brett Lee | |||||||
Glenn McGrath | |||||||
Extras | (b 2, lb 12, w 16, nb 7) | 37 | |||||
Total | (2 wickets; 50 overs) | 359 |
Fall of wickets: 1–105 (Gilchrist, 13.6 ov), 2–125 (Hayden, 19.5 ov)
India bowling[1] | |||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
Zaheer Khan | 7 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 9.57 | 6 | 2 |
Javagal Srinath | 10 | 0 | 87 | 0 | 8.70 | 2 | 1 |
Ashish Nehra | 10 | 0 | 57 | 0 | 5.70 | 3 | 0 |
Harbhajan Singh | 8 | 0 | 49 | 2 | 6.12 | 0 | 0 |
Virender Sehwag | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 4.66 | 0 | 0 |
Sachin Tendulkar | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 6.66 | 1 | 0 |
Dinesh Mongia | 7 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 5.57 | 0 | 2 |
Yuvraj Singh | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 | 0 | 0 |
- 2nd innings
India batting[1] | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
Sachin Tendulkar | c & b McGrath | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
Virender Sehwag | run out (Lehmann) | 82 | 81 | 10 | 3 | 101.23 | |
Sourav Ganguly * | c Lehmann b Lee | 24 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 96.00 | |
Mohammad Kaif | c Gilchrist b McGrath | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Rahul Dravid † | b Bichel | 47 | 57 | 2 | 0 | 82.45 | |
Yuvraj Singh | c Lee b Hogg | 24 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 70.58 | |
Dinesh Mongia | c Martyn b Symonds | 12 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 109.09 | |
Harbhajan Singh | c McGrath b Symonds | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87.50 | |
Zaheer Khan | c Lehmann b McGrath | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 | |
Javagal Srinath | b Lee | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Ashish Nehra | not out | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 200.00 | |
Extras | (lb 1, w 3, nb 1) | 5 | |||||
Total | (9 wickets; 50
overs) |
'234 |
Fall of wickets: 4-1 (Tendulkar, 0.5), 58-2 (S Ganguly, 9.5), 59-3 (M Kaif, 10.3), 147-4 (Sehwag, 23.5), 187-5 (Dravid, 31.5), 208-6 (Yuvraj, 34.5), 209-7 (D Mongia, 35.2), 223-8 (Harbhajan, 37.1), 226-9 (J Srinath, 38.2), 234-10 (Zaheer, 39.2)
Australia bowling[1] | |||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
Glenn McGrath | 8.2 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 6.24 | 0 | 0 |
Brett Lee | 7 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 4.42 | 2 | 4 |
Brad Hogg | 10 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 6.10 | 2 | 0 |
Darren Lehmann | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 9.00 | 0 | 0 |
Andy Bichel | 10 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 5.70 | 4 | 0 |
Andrew Symonds | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3.50 | 1 | 0 |
Match officials
- On-field umpires: Steve Bucknor (West Indies) and David Shepherd (England)
- Third umpire: Rudi Koertzen (South Africa)
- Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
- Reserve umpire: Billy Bowden (New Zealand)
Key
- * – Captain
- † – Wicket-keeper
- c Fielder – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named fielder
- b Bowler – Indicates which bowler gains credit for the dismissal
Aftermath
Australia became the first team to win three World Cups,[54] and registered a record 17 consecutive ODI wins.[61] They also became the third team to win all the matches in a World Cup tournament.[62] Writing for the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Simon Wilde remarked that Australia would have beaten a Rest of the World XI had they been asked.[12]
At the post-match press conference, Ponting said the Indian players showed no signs of winning the match at any point in time. On Australia's win he said, "It's not that we think we are ahead of the others. It's just the way we play."[47] Nevertheless, he complimented both teams by saying India and Australia were the two best teams in the tournament, and that the Indian players deserved to be in the final.[47] Ganguly praised the Australian batsmen and said they played like "real champions".[63]
Ganguly's decision to bowl first was criticised by the media: The New York Times, for instance, said it "backfired horribly".[60][64] Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan, while denouncing Ganguly's decision, also criticised his idea of going into the match with an unchanged side. He said India should have played their leg spinner Anil Kumble as the ball was "gripping [in] the surface".[65] The journalist and former England cricketer Mike Selvey believed Ganguly may have been influenced by the possibility of the Duckworth–Lewis method affecting the result.[66] Indian journalist Boria Majumdar in his book, Cricketing Cultures in Conflict (2004), remarked about the possibility of Australia losing the rain-interrupted final, if the result were to be decided by this method.[67] Ganguly defended his decision, saying the overcast conditions and moisture in the pitch meant it was favourable to the bowlers, but they failed to use it properly.[52] Ponting said he would have opted to bat first had they won the toss.[68] His teammate Symonds, in an interview later, recalled that India's decision to bowl first gave them an impression that they were not "confident enough to take the fight".[69]
Australia were rewarded with prize money totaling US$2,000,000, while India received $800,000.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b This figure is according to ESPNcricinfo.[1] The Wisden Cricketers' Almanack puts the number at 31,827.[2]
- ^ The maximum overs per side was reduced from 60 to 50 overs during the 1987 World Cup.[6]
- ^ India's winning streak included eight consecutive victories.[21]
- ^ This was Australia's highest total in ODIs at the time.[47]
- ^ Ponting's eight sixes in the innings were the most at the time by a batsman in a World Cup match.[1]
- ^ As of January 2017, this is the sixth-highest partnership for any wicket for Australia in ODIs.[57]
- ^ Tendulkar's aggregate is a record for any player in a single World Cup as of the 2015 tournament.[71]
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