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Today I was watching a game of cricket between Australia and England. This game was a crucial one for Australia, a must win to move to the second round in the 20-20 world cup (cricket).

Australia won the game!

I have been following cricket for a good number of years. This is not the first time Australian cricket team has come out from a so called, pressure cooker situation successfully. In fact, as far as my memory goes, Australia has more than 90% of the times have come out of such situations successfully.

Era is different, players are different, yet the Australian cricket team continues their successful roll for decades. What differentiates them from the rest of the cricketing world? I think they just believe that they will win every game. Not just a casual belief, deep down, to their core they believe. Ofcourse, their skills are great, but I think that it is their belief that propels their skills to be applied thoroughly in the field.

Irrespective of  the views of some critics about the manners of Australian team, there is no doubt that they have raised the game of all the cricket teams in the world. Tribute to them - the current team members and the earlier!

Thanks to timesofindia.com for the picture. This picture is of the current Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting and their star batsman Mathew Hayden, from today's ( Sep 14th, 2007 ) match against England.

Some stats from wikipedia about the achievements of the Australian Cricket Teams ( Current and the earlier ones ).

Australia has led the ICC Test Championship table since the creation of the ICC Test table system in January 2001.

They are also the first-ranked international one-day cricket team and winners of the last three Cricket World Cups.

Australia won the Cricket World Cup 4 times in total; 1987, 1999, 2003 & 2007. As of 28 April 2007 they are undefeated in 29 consecutive World Cup matches. They have led the ICC One-Day International Championship table from its inception through to February 18, 2007, and then again from April 7, 2007.

In 2002, they were named World Team of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in recognition of their world record sequence of test match victories.

You can read more details in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cricket_team

Thanks to wikipedia for the stats.

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