Australia's excursion to a seventh World Cup last on Sunday may appear to be standard passage for a country that has as of now won cricket's definitive prize four times. Australia will tackle their most despised opponent New Zealand in the last on Sunday at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Here is the historical backdrop of Australia in the World Cups.
Australia in 1975: Australia were seen as top picks for the competition however fizzled at the last obstacle. Australia began the campain on a winnig note with a 73-run win over Pakistan because of fine batting execution by Ross Edwards and some savage playing by Dennis Lillee. They proceeded with their fine run in the tournamnet with an alternate persuading win over Sri Lanka in the 2nd match. 100 from Alan Turner, and 50 from Rick McCosker, Greg Chappell and Doug Walters helped Australia post a solid aggregate of 328 and at last they won the match by 52 runs. The greatest test before the last came against England in the semis. The match started with England as top picks yet Gary Gilmour tore separated the English line-up with figures of 6 for 14. Gilmour's employment wasn't over however, coming into bat with his group on the rocks at 39 for 6, he scored an unbeaten run-a-ball 28 to direct Australia into the last. At that point came the greatest obstacle in which Australia fizzled. Dramatization began ahead of schedule in the summit conflict after the West Indies were placed into bat. Opener Fredericks pounded an eminent six off snappy bowler Dennis Lillee. The Caribbean supporters broke into praise, yet the umpire announced him out hit wicket. The left-hander had neglected to keep his equalization and unstuck the safeguards with his foot. The West Indies were in a spot of trouble at 50 for 3, yet Llyod concocted a magnificent 102 to impel his side to 291 for eight. The impressive Australians took up the pursuit, however the Caribbeans fielded sublimely and effected 4 run outs. Australia lost the match by seventeen runs.
Australia in 1979: ever, it has been thrice that the Kangaroos have been disposed of before the knockout stage. 1979 was the first run through when Australia neglected to make it the knockouts. In 1979, the Aussies neglected to cross the score of 200 even once. In the opening match. Australia forgot stars and lost to England by 6 wickets in the wake of getting packaged out for an irrelevant 159. In the second match at Trent Bridge, Australia went down to Pakistan by eighty nine runs. Intrusions by downpour isolated the match into two days. Pakistan posted 286 on board yet Australia continued losing wickets at standard interims. Hilditch gave a great showcase for Australia, yet the loss of Darling in the eighth over demonstrated a setback from which Australia never recuperated. In the last match against Canada - Australia won by seven wickets after their skipper, Hughes, had put in Canada to bat. Alan Hurst was the star for them as he got five wickets and bail Aussies package out Canada for only 105. Accordingly, Austarlia figure out how to score the obliged 106 after loss of only three wickets.
Australia in 1983: The competition was headed toward a most exceedingly terrible conceivable begin for Aussies as Zimbabwe staggered them in their first ever World Cup appearance with an astounding execution. Zimbabwe rode on commander Duncan Fletcher's inside and out show to secure the thriller by 13 runs. In the following match against the guarding champions - Australia were mortified as they sufferd a 101-run misfortune. West Indies' Winston Davis grabbed seven wickets. Australia won the following the two matches against India and Zimbabwe separately by an agreeable edge however went ahead to lose the remaining two matches against West Indies & India. Both the loses were convicning and left a major question mark on the eventual fate of numerous Australian players.
Australia in 1987: The rule of 60-over matches offered route to the 50-over organization because of light conditions in the sub-landmass. It was the begin of the command of Australian cricket. The 1987 World Cup was won in their most testing conditions - the Indian sub-landmass. The 1987 World Cup saw them lose against India yet they had enough in them to go on and win the title with no further dramatization. Driven by Allan Border, Australia held their nerves in crunch circumstances to lift the trophy before 95,000 cheering observers - the biggest in a World Cup amusement till then at the magnificent Eden Gardens on November 8. Britain had all the earmarks of being cruising to triumph in the last when Mike Gatting attempted a converse range off restricting skipper Border's first conveyance and heaved a basic catch. A decently bored and trained Australia side went ahead to win by seven runs.
Australia in 1992: This was the first occasion when that the groups donned hued attire and played with white cricket balls at the World Cup. Australia passed up a great opportunity for the semi-last spot in this one by only one point. The principal World Cup in Oceania started with co-has, New Zealand irritating protecting champs, Australia, by 37 runs. In the following match, South Africa back in the global stadium and making their World Cup debut at Sydney enlisted an agreeable 9-wicket win over Australia. Batting initially, Australia never got conflicting with Allan Donald & Co. as they were confined to a pitiful 170/9 from their 50 overs and went on lose the match by nine wickets. The thriller came in Australia's 3rd match when they edged India by only one run. An alternate blow wanted Australia when Ian Botham enlivened England squashed them by 9 wickets at Sydney. This was a different universe Cup which Australia will love to overlook.
Australia in 1996: The competition began on note for them. They relinquished their competition opener against co-has Sri Lanka after political distress in the island country. Imprint Taylor's men in the second match comfortbaly beat minnows Kenya affability a Mark Waugh hundred. Waugh lesser was busy again in the following amusement against India, scoring a glorious 126 to help the Aussies register a 16-run win. It was trailed by an alternate persuading win over Zimbabwe. The quarter-last match was a thriller against their most despised opponents New Zealand. Notwithstanding Kiwis posting 286 on board - Steve Waugh and Stuart Law dispatched the triumphant runs with three overs to extra. Semi-last was at the end of the day a splendid session of cricket. Shane Warne left the West Indies changing area noiseless amid the semi-last. Warne went through the Windies center request to rouse an exciting five-run triumph for Australia in Chandigarh. In any case in the finals, Sri Lanka, with the hazardous Sananth Jayasuriya at the highest point of the request and Muttiah Muralitharan beguiling restricting batsmen with his colossal forces of twist, demonstrated commendable champions. They won the match and the World Cup by 7 wickets.
Australia in 1999: Australia, the world's best Test side, were in risk of disposal in the gathering stages and again in the Super Six round where 120 not out from chief Steve Waugh, dropped on 56 by Herschelle Gibbs, guaranteed triumph over South Africa. At that point, in a semi-last between the same groups, South Africa required one and only run with four balls staying in the last over with their best one-day batsman Lance Klusner on strike. A panicky run out tied an epic match which put Australia through by uprightness of their higher rank in the Super Six round. Australia made no challenge of the last against Pakistan, taking scarcely 4-1/2 hours to overpower the 1992 champions.
Australia in 2003: Australia won their second title on the jog. The competition plan went under overwhelming feedback as the quantity of matches went up to 54 - the most noteworthy in Cup history - after the partaking groups were expanded from 12 to 14. The competition saw various bombshells, with South Africa, Pakistan, the West Indies and England failing hard at the gathering stage. Australia turned into the meriting champions by winning all their matches. Australia turned into the meriting champions by winning all their matches. The way they beat India in the last demonstrated who the "manager" of worldwide cricket was.
Australia in 2007: Just like 2003, it was one side undertaking. The World Cup saw total and utter slaughter by the Aussies as they were unbeaten and unchallenged at the end of the day. Australia, new from a 5-0 Ashes arrangement win over England, crushed their resistance all through the competition, completing the last with a comfortbale win over Sri Lanka in a downpour shortened last in Bridge town. Adam Gilchrist scored a swashbuckling one hundered fourty nine. Two other Australian goliaths, Matthew Hayden and Glenn McGrath, were the main run-scorer and wicket-taker separately.
Australia in 2011: Managing to accomplish deeds, for example, a streak including a psyche boggling 34 unbeaten recreations at the World Cup, things in the end stopped in the 2011 version of the World Cup when they were neglected by the Indian juggernaut who in the end went ahead to lift the pined for trophy. They were looking great in the gathering stages untill they met India in the quarters.
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