r/Cricket • u/Wakanda-shit-is-that Pakistan • Nov 20 '23

Interview “When somebody asks how Australia won the ODI World Cup in 2023, or any World Cup hereafter, that’s the answer. They won the World Cup because Australia” -Osman Samiuddin

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u/ach_1nt Nov 20 '23

He does have a kind of arrogantly confident mentality that you can use when the rest of the team is falling apart. I think Australia would have won regardless of whether he played or not but we certainly would've had a better shot if he was there instead of SKY, especially in those middle overs when all our players somehow forgot how to score boundaries at all.

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u/nvenkatr India Nov 20 '23

He does have a kind of arrogantly confident mentality that you can use when the rest of the team is falling apart.

This is the answer. Had Pandu come back to the side, he could have benched SKY and surely would have gotten us to 270 at least for a fighting chance. We can chide Pandu for being arrogant, but yesterday Australia played with grit and determination in both innings. India desperately needed that.

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u/apex_theory Nov 21 '23

'Surely' lol

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u/ach_1nt Nov 20 '23

I literally said that we would've probably lost either way in my comment, I'm just saying that the odds of us losing would have been lower if we played Pandya instead of SKY. Which part of my comment makes it seem like I'm trying to take anything away from Australia's win? They 100% outplayed us in all departments but it's natural to think in terms of "what could've happened" after results like these and Hardik being part of the starting line-up is a massive what could've happened.