Would the result have been different if India was batting first?

[jusarrived]

Nope , it would have been worse ..set targets of 290-310 which no way Virat n co would have defended in 40, let alone 150

[zen]

Good teams do well in whatever challenges they are presented with. If you need to win toss, bat first, etc., to be competitive, you should probably not be playing cricket 

[maniac]

1 hour ago, zen said:

Good teams do well in whatever challenges they are presented with. If you need to win toss, bat first, etc., to be competitive, you should probably not be playing cricket 

more or less the same Indian team made 350 In WC batting first and Aussies with pretty much the same team folded for 315

Edited November 30, 2020 by maniac

[Ankit_sharma03]

5 hours ago, jusarrived said:

Nope , it would have been worse ..set targets of 290-310 which no way Virat n co would have defended in 40, let alone 150

 

but we did set 350 in Wc against them 

[zen]

1 minute ago, maniac said:

more or less the same Indian team made 350 In WC batting first and Aussies with pretty much the same team folded for 315

What you are suggesting is that Ind does relatively well if it bats first. What I said is that good teams do well irrespective of the toss. Runs is not the only part of the equation. 

[maniac]

7 minutes ago, zen said:

What you are suggesting is that Ind does relatively well if it bats first. What I said is that good teams do well irrespective of the toss. Runs is not the only part of the equation. 

True. All I am saying is the results are not as doom and gloom as we are making it out to be. Aussies had better conditions and obviously it was fair and square. I think the Indian bowling has been average rather than poor and so has been the batting. Fielding has been poor though.

[Khota]

Yes, it could be 1-1.

[putrevus]

Unless India scored 350 plus, Aussies with their current form would win most of the matches.Bumrah being ineffective is one major factor.

[jusarrived]

4 hours ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

 

but we did set 350 in Wc against them 

We generally suck at setting target, except for Sharma who plays better in first innings. That apart with Pandya at 6, the innings will never have momentum even if we lose one early wicket . 
1/10 ..1/60..1/125..2/175/..4/245..320  

This is the best case scenario, if we lose more than 4 before 40th over the last 10 will be wasted . 

[Straight Drive]

We will know soon in couple of hours.

 

Not impressive batting first. 302 is a normal nowadays and considering Aussies second string bowling attack was playing, India should have made lot more. In fact we scored more runs while chasing in two innings than batting first.

 

Different wicket though. Let Aus bat. We will come to know whether it was good total for this ground or not.

[coffee_rules]

Pitch was better today, Sydney was the worst. India batting second raked up 300+ in both ODIs, India could have won at least one of them. Not sure they would score 370+, but they coud defend 350 with scorecard pressure.

[Vilander]

win toss bat first win match.