What a team.

Been unbeaten in World cup for 29 consecutive matches. Three world cup wins. Struggled but won in 1999. Moved through gracefully with slight hiccups in couple of matches in 2003. Completely dominated the tournament in a clinically professional way in 2007. Well , in 2003, there was nothing more that this team could achieve as they had already won the world cup once unbeaten. What more could they possibly do? Is there something more. Ask Ponting, Gilly and the Pigeon. They would say , there is! They still can not only win matches but dominate and crush the opposition. Well, that s what they did in 2007.

What is amazing with this team , is not their ability alone.Lot of other teams are as talented as they are, but what differentiates the Aussies from the others are their work ethics and the professionalism they bring on to the field.Be it against the Netherlands or the Lankans, the Scots or the Springboks, they being in the same intensity to the field, an aspect which can never be told about any other team which plays cricket during these times. This intensity just grows multifold when the match is an important one.

One other aspect of this team which raises many eyebrows is their ability to raise the level of their game on a consistent basis. They just keep raising the bar and it is now unimaginable for the other teams to even come a close second. I guess, the other teams have to be satisfied with just a distant second.

To even think that this world cup was considered to be a open one after the recent peformances of the Australian team. It was thought that the other teams would catch up and when the world was thinking that Australian cricket was history, they came back and raised the bar so much higher, that the other teams were not even able to have a look at the bar.

True, some time in the near or far future, other teams would catch up and the aussie cricket would falter and there could be other invincible teams, but for the moment, take a bow to the team which has won the last three world cups. WHAT A TEAM!