Not short on aggression, but very little is verbal

Updated On: 18 November, 2023 02:59 AM IST | Ahmedabad | R Kaushik

Head coach Dravid, who was part of the 2003 final which India lost to Oz and skipper Rohit have got the team to internalise rather than focus on extraneous factors, so it is certain that the hosts won’t lose Sunday’s finale in the head

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India players celebrate winning the semi-final against New Zealand at Wankhede on Wednesday. Pic/AFP

Starting from the quarter-final in 2011 at the old Sardar Patel Stadium (where the new Narendra Modi Stadium has since come up) at Motera in this same city, India have won three of their four World Cup showdowns against Australia, including in Chennai a month and a half back. While the six-wicket win in the opening game for both teams is freshest in memory, it is hard not to remember the last time the teams had battled in a World Cup before 2011, on 23 March 2003.

Fireworks at Wanderers

The Wanderers in Johannesburg, often referred to as The Bullring for obvious reasons, was the setting for a face-off between the two strongest teams of the 2003 World Cup in a title clash that promised plenty of fireworks. Truth to tell, there was no shortage of fireworks, but most of them emanated from the blades of Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, skipper Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn as the Aussies buried India under an avalanche of runs.

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