INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Australia won the Cricket World Cup for a record-extending sixth time Sunday, ending India&s dominant run in its home tournament with a
six-wicket victory in a low-scoring final on the back of Travis Head&s 137.A heavily partisan crowd inside the 132,000-capacity Narendra
Modi Stadium was silenced as Head combined with Marnus Labuschagne (58 not out ) in a 192-run partnership to chase down the target of
241.Australia was wobbling on 47-3 after seven overs but Head and Labuschagne dug in to help their country regain its status as the king of
one-day international cricket, adding to its 50-over world titles in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015.Head was dismissed off what proved to
be the next-to-last ball of the match, caught in the deep while attempting to hit a title-clinching boundary.In came Glenn Maxwell and he
ran two off his first ball, securing a victory that prompted fireworks above the world&s largest cricket venue.The post Australia beats
India to win Cricket World Cup for sixth time as Head hits 137 first appeared on Ariana News.
