Australia Win World Cup Cricket

Australia's Cricket Team Declared The Best In The World

© Philippa Rowlands

May 1, 2007

Australia win the 2007 World Cup Cricket championship making Australia's cricket team arguably the best in the world.


Is Australia's one day cricket team the best in the world? Following an outright win in the 2007 World Cup Cricket champoinship they are arguably the finest one-day team in history after winning their third consecutive World Cup.

Adam Gilchrist, scored an incredidle 149 runs which is the highest score made in a final in the 32-year history of the World Cup. This historic preformance earned Gilchrist the honor of Man Of The Match.

Australia won the cup with a convincing 53-run victory over Sri Lanka. The World Cup tournament had been plagued with conroversy, poor organisation and even the unsolved murder of Bob Woolmer the coach of the pakistan team. Despite all these difficulties Australia has shone through as a super power of one day cricket with a stunning competition.

Australia has won 23 World Cup Cricket matches in a row, starting way back in the tied stretching back to the tied 1999 semi-final against South Africa at Edgbaston. This is an incredible achievement.

"We've dominated this tournament probably like no other cricket World Cup has been dominated before," Ponting has said. A huge smile on his face.

The achievement of this years World Cup is bitter sweet for Australian cricket fans as it maks the retirement of popular champion fast bowler Glenn Mc Grath and Australia's coach John Buchanan.


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