Whoever wins this worldcup should thank India for knocking out australia,agree?

Australia is not the same champion side. The team of 2005 would have amassed 350 - 400 against this Indian attack. It was very surprising to see Ponting unable to force the pace and the other batsmen were afraid of attacking. The Australian standards have gone down but the others have improved marginally. India has learnt not to give up and has been winning more because of that. One will see that against Pakistan. The current Indian team can recover from hopeless situations and does not simply fold up. Australia knows that they would not go past India. Their older players and experts admitted as much before the match. Shahid Afridi had promised his people that his team would reach the semis but it will be very difficult to go past India. Afridi knows that but his country will now be greedy to win the world cup. They don't know that India has been planning and improving from the days of Kumble to win this world cup, whereas other than Afridi no other Pakistani believed that their team could even reach the Quarter final stage. But who knows what is in store? The best plans can go awry.

Yes, most countries are happy that the Aussie strangle hood on the cup is over. It was fitting that India did it as over the past decade or so, India is the one country that has consistently challenged Australia in all forms of the game. So after knocking them from the perch of the Test Cricket, India has now knocked them off the perch in the ODIs as well. Cheers! Ram

now aus has lost their form and unity as a team. they are not the champions as if they were in the past. Anyway India knocked out the defending champions and it will be a big relief for all other teams who are in the semi. surely aus always perform well on big platforms and the credit for knocking out aus goes to the indian team.