Australia deserves honors at the Cricket World Cup while Travis Head ruins the Indian party

As Pat Cummins and his players basked in the afterglow of a sixth Men's World Cup title for Australia - undoubtedly a contender for their biggest - thousands of Indian supporters poured out of this giant cricketing coliseum in a state of utter disbelief.

Gone was the idea that this day would fulfill India's destiny in their home tournament, a fine team featuring some all-time greats - Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah, no less - seeing a thrilling run of ten consecutive last-place victories to disappear. Cummins, a Blue Mountains boy in an ocean of blue shirts, had ...