India vs Australia: World Cup final factoids | Cricket News – Times of India
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India vs Australia is the first-ever World Cup final between multiple Cup winners. A lowdown on all that's interesting about Sunday's big game...NO LEFTIE, NO PROBLEMIf India win, they will emulate their own feat of winning the World Cup without a left-handed batsman in the top 6 (in the XI). They had done the same in 1983. Since then, all World Cup-winning teams have had at least one left-handed batter in the top 6 - Australia 1987 (Allan Border), Pakistan 1992 (Aamer Sohail), Sri Lanka 1996 (Sanath Jayasuriya, Asanka Gurusinha, Arjuna Ranatunga), Australia 1999 (Adam Gilchrist, Darren Lehmann, Michael Bevan), Australia 2003 (Gilchrist, Mathew Hayden, Lehmann, Bevan), Australia 2007 (Gilchrist, Hayden, Mike Hussey), India 2011 (Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh), Australia 2015 (David...