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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 2025
Cummins urges Australia to embrace ‘one-sided’ crowd challenge in World Cup final

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18 November, 2023, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 18 November, 2023, 02:13 pm

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Cummins urges Australia to embrace ‘one-sided’ crowd challenge in World Cup final

A capacity crowd of 130,000 -- which would be a record for any cricket match -- is expected to roar on India, who have won all 10 of their matches en route to the showpiece game.

AFP
18 November, 2023, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 18 November, 2023, 02:13 pm
Photo: AFP
Photo: AFP

Australia captain Pat Cummins has urged his side to "embrace" the challenge of facing a hostile crowd when they play in-form hosts India in Sunday's World Cup final in Ahmedabad.

A capacity crowd of 130,000 -- which would be a record for any cricket match -- is expected to roar on India, who have won all 10 of their matches en route to the showpiece game.

The hosts are bidding for a third men's one-day international World Cup title and second on home soil after their 2011 triumph.

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But five-time champions Australia are a team full of big-match performers who also know what it's like to play in cricket-crazy India from their time in the Indian Premier League.

"I think you've got to embrace it, the crowd's obviously going to be very one-sided," Cummins told a pre-match news conference at the Narendra Modi Stadium, named after the Indian prime minister, on Saturday.

"But also in sport, there's nothing more satisfying (as an opposition player) than hearing a big crowd go silent and that's the aim for us tomorrow."

The 30-year-old fast bowler added: "You've just got to embrace every part of it, every part of a final -- you know in the lead-up there's going to be noise and more people and interest and you just can't get overwhelmed.

"You got to be up for it, you got to love it and just know whatever happens it's fine but you just want to finish the day with no regrets," Cummins said.

And while he accepted the dimensions of Sunday's match would be different to any his side had experienced before, Cummins said: "We play over here in India a lot so the noise is not something new.

"I think on this scale it's probably bigger than we would have experienced before but it's not something totally foreign to what we've had before.

"Everyone deals with it slightly differently -- you see Davey (Warner) probably dancing and winning the crowd over, other guys just staying in their own bubble –- it should be good."

Victory on Sunday would cap a remarkable 2023 for Australia that saw them narrowly lose a Test series in India before defeating India in a World Test Championship final in England, where they also went on to retain the Ashes after a drawn series.

"It's been a huge year," said Cummins. "These are four marquee events. If you have one of those in an off-season, it's a big off-season.

"Some of the guys probably spent less than a couple of weeks in their own bed since the end of the Aussie summer," added Cummins, also the skipper of Australia's Test team.

"The guys have been awesome. They're so up for every game they play.

"To put ourselves in this position, it (winning the World Cup) would just top off an incredible year and probably a career-defining year that a lot of us will look back on in years to come and be pretty proud of."

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