A match for the ages: Will an unbeaten India storm past the Aussie swagger?
BySomshuvra Laha
Nov 20, 2023 11:31 AM IST
As an epic rivalry plays out, on the biggest stage there is, it’s been a long road to this moment: odds-on favourites against the mighty Australia.
Twenty years on, the gnawing anxiety has not eased. India and Australia are in a World Cup final. Good for the game; not so great for the nerves.
Losing against Australia, at the World Cup in 2003. (Getty Images)
Winning against Australia in a group stage match, earlier in this tournament. ‘We want to take on the best. [India have] been the best in the tournament so far,’ as Australia’s Mitchell Starc put it, speaking of Sunday’s final. (PTI)