‘Ricky Ponting Was The Songmaster….’: Tom Moody Reflects On 1999 World Cup Victory

New Delhi: Former Australian all-rounder Tom Moody reminisced on Australia’s 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup win as he returns to the iconic Lord’s Stadium, the venue of the Aussies win over Pakistan right by capability of the title conflict, for The Hundred tournament final as the coach of Oval Invincibles.

Some of basically the most frequent of The Hundred opposition right by capability of the UK will take region on Sunday. 25 years after his victory right by capability of the 1999 WC inclusive of Australia, Moody has entered Lord’s with an purpose to win two lower again-to-lower again titles with Oval Invincibles.

Reminiscing on the workforce’s World Cup win, Moody talked about that even with the fact that the Aussies entered the tournament as favourites after ending runners-as much as Sri Lanka in 1996, the workforce performed poorly of their first 1/2 of the opposition, shedding their Pool B matches to New Zealand and Pakistan and barely making it to the true three of their community so that you'd have the flexibility to achieve the Monumental Six, the condition they'd been undefeated.

“We obtained here in as favourites, but we performed poorly for the first 1/2 of the tournament. We obviously desired to win seven in a row to be topped champions. Being factor of that social gathering for these seven games became comparatively one-of-a-style,” talked about Moody as quoted by capability of ESPNCricinfo.

Australia thrashed Pakistan right by capability of some of basically the most frequent by capability of eight wickets, chasing down 133 runs in only 20.1 overs, with Shane Warne (4/33) and Adam Gilchrist (fifty 4) pulling off memorable performances. Moody also brushed aside all-rounders Abdul Razzaq and Azhar Mahmood right by capability of some of basically the most frequent.

“We had a protracted time duration right by capability of the dressing room to day out the day out of the social gathering and the social gathering. All kinds of americans obtained here thru, from family to substantive cricket followers, but we had been in our own bubble,” Moody recalled.

Moody reminisced that after the win, the workforce gathered together to sing their tune, ‘Beneath the Southern Circulation’.
“Historically right by capability of the Australian workforce, we'd always sing that workforce tune after a Establish or a one-day series win. Ricky Ponting became the songmaster, and he delivered it on my shoulders, greatest right by capability of the midsection. My scale lower again lower again is nonetheless recovering,” he concluded.

Within the 1999 WC, Moody scored 117 runs in five innings at a median of 117.00 with a fifty and took seven wickets as good.