Australia won the Cricket World Cup for a record-extending sixth time Sunday, ending India\u2019s dominant run in its home tournament with a six-wicket victory in a low-scoring final on the back of Travis Head\u2019s 137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
A heavily pro-Indian crowd inside the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium was silenced as Head combined with Marnus Labuschagne (58 not out ) in a 192-run partnership to chase down the target of 241.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Australia was wobbling on 47-3 after seven overs but Head and Labuschagne dug in to help their country regain its status as the king of one-day international cricket, adding to its 50-over world titles in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Head was dismissed off what proved to be the next-to-last ball of the match, caught in the deep while attempting to hit a title-clinching boundary. In came Glenn Maxwell and he ran two off his first ball, securing a victory that prompted fireworks above the world\u2019s largest cricket venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Indians won all 10 of their matches before the final and were seeking a third trophy in their fourth appearance in a title match that brought a country of 1.4 billion people to a virtual standstill. They were outplayed in every department by Australia, though, restricted to 240 all out on a slow pitch after losing the toss with only Virat Kohli<\/strong> (54) and Lokesh Rahul (66) making half-centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Head became only the fifth player to score a century in a men\u2019s World Cup final \u2013 and third Australian after Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist \u2013 and delivered a significant moment in India\u2019s innings when taking a diving catch running back from cover to remove captain Rohit Sharma (47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Australia finished the tournament with a run of nine straight wins, after starting with back-to-back defeats to India and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia won the Cricket World Cup for a record-extending sixth time Sunday, ending India\u2019s dominant run in its home tournament with a six-wicket victory in a low-scoring final on the back of Travis Head\u2019s 137. A heavily pro-Indian crowd inside the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi Stadium was silenced as Head combined with Marnus Labuschagne (58 not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[1648,3347,8249,2152,10853,9171,5440,8342,10544,10954,8126,7939,12309,11289,6479,7968,11973,244,6503,10885,36,5248],"class_list":["post-40095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-africa","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-chase","tag-cricket","tag-crowd","tag-india","tag-indian","tag-indians","tag-international","tag-match","tag-maxwell","tag-men","tag-modi","tag-narendra-modi","tag-nine","tag-one","tag-south-africa","tag-travis","tag-victory","tag-world","tag-world-cup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40099,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40095\/revisions\/40099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}