The last match of 2023 was played between India and Australia at the stadium in Ahmedabad. In this game, Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first and won the World Cup. At the same time, Indian captain Rohit Sharma had said that even if he had won the toss, he would have preferred to bat first. However, after the end of the game, it became clear that the captain of the Indian team had made a mistake in reading the pitch, and the captain of the Australian team, Pat Cummins, had assessed how the pitch would play from morning to night.
This information was given by the Australian team’s chief selector and former cricketer George Bailey himself. Ravichandran Ashwin revealed on his YouTube channel that George Bailey told him the reason why he didn’t bat first. Ashwin said: “When I asked George Bailey, why didn’t you bat first? He said we have been playing IPL and bilateral series here for a long time and the red clay pitch is cracking but the black clay pitch is not cracking. It gets better under light (at night). Although dew has no effect on red soil, the ball spins strongly on black soil in the afternoon. , and then it becomes a flat field at night. This is based on our experience, we decided to bowl first after winning the toss in the last game.
Whatever the former Australian cricketer told Ashwin, the exact same thing happened on the Ahmedabad pitch in the last match. This clearly means that the final match pitch depends heavily on the toss, which should not have happened and the Indian team captain Rohit Sharma couldn’t even test the pitch properly. Australia won the toss in the final game and invited India to bat. India were restricted to just 240 runs in 50 overs, then scored 241 runs in 43 overs, winning the final by 6 wickets and also becoming world champions for the sixth time.