{"id":5647,"date":"2007-04-29T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2007-04-29T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T14:29:00","slug":"death-taxes-and-australia-winning-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/death-taxes-and-australia-winning-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Death, taxes and Australia winning the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of the inevitable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/wc2007\/content\/current\/story\/292769.html\" title=\"'Big Daddies' toy with the world -- Rahul Bhattacharya\">grows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is much comment all around about how Australia&#8217;s domination is bad for the game, and how cricket needs a contest, and so on. I disagree. All of us want to watch cricket that is sublime, beautiful, invigorating. Australia have made that routine. There are few more joyful sights in the game than Ricky Ponting rocking back to pull or Glenn McGrath peppering the corridor, and Adam Gilchrist&#8217;s innings in the final will remain a cherished memory for me, on par with his two legendary innings in South Africa&#8212;even though it killed the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, if you can, what would happen if this Aussie side was anything like the England side. You&#8217;d have your contest all right, but it would be so boring, so mediocre. Thank FSM for Australia, Steve Waugh onwards. Without them, cricket would be dead.<\/p>\n<p>(Comments are open. Whaddya think?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of the inevitable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/wc2007\/content\/current\/story\/292769.html\" title=\"'Big Daddies' toy with the world -- Rahul Bhattacharya\">grows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is much comment all around about how Australia&#8217;s domination is bad for the game, and how cricket needs a contest, and so on. I disagree. All of us want to watch cricket that is sublime, beautiful, invigorating. Australia have made that routine. There are few more joyful sights in the game than Ricky Ponting rocking back to pull or Glenn McGrath peppering the corridor, and Adam Gilchrist&#8217;s innings in the final will remain a cherished memory for me, on par with his two legendary innings in South Africa&#8212;even though it killed the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine, if you can, what would happen if this Aussie side was anything like the England side. You&#8217;d have your contest all right, but it would be so boring, so mediocre. Thank FSM for Australia, Steve Waugh onwards. Without them, cricket would be dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Death, taxes and Australia winning the World Cup - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/death-taxes-and-australia-winning-the-world-cup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Death, taxes and Australia winning the World Cup - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The list of the inevitable grows. 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