ICC ODI World Cup final - MCG.

[Pies4shaw]

Man of the match is James Faulkner.

[Pies4shaw]

Player of the tournament is ... Mitchell Starc

[Pies4shaw]

That's brilliant - I can watch the fireworks on the telly - and hear them outside.

[Jezza]

Congratulations to the Aussies!

[Pies4shaw]

I follow the cricket avidly but, as a Collingwood supporter for the last 1,000 or so years, I do have some mixed feelings about watching the boys go out and do that in a Grand Final, on the MCG, at their first attempt....

Anyway, Sharda Ugra's report entitled "Australia in a final: Men at work, business as usual" is a good read: http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/857209.html

Here's the start:

"There is an aphorism in football that holds true across regions, decades, events, big-game nights: 22 men go out to play and the Germans win. Here's the cricket version: 22 men go to out to play a World Cup final and the Australians win.

On a resplendent night in the biggest ground in world cricket, 93,013 people and a flock of curious seagulls, under a black-inked sky, watched Australia win their Penta, their fifth World Cup. They have made seven finals in 11 World Cups. Never mind football, which has had a far longer World Cup history, not even field hockey - whose World Cup started in 1971 - has one country that has been a part of their event's grandest night so often across three decades."