Well....It's Australia(10-0) vs India(9-1) in the finals. Appropriately, the two best teams have made it.
An assessment:
Batting: Hayden, Gilchrist, Ponting, Martyn(?), Bevan, Symonds, Lehmann.....vs Tendulkar, Sehwag, Ganguly, Dravid(?), Kaif, Yuvraj, Mongia.....hmmmm...looks more or less even. The Indian top and middle order have been more consistent while the Aussie lower order have produced inspired performances to bail out their team in a couple of tight situations.
Bowling: Again these two have been the best bowling sides in the competition although Aus enjoy a clear edge in this department. McGrath, Lee, Bichel, Lehmann, Hogg vs Srinath, Zaheer, Nehra and Harb.
Fielding: The Australians are definitely much, much better at this although the Indians have improved a lot.
Competitive spirit: Both teams rate pretty high in this department. The Aussies have come back from the dead on a couple of occasions and produced adrenalin-pumping victories while the Indians after a bad loss against the Aussies have never really looked down the barrel so far.
All in all, if both teams play to potential, should be a high-quality, enjoyable encounter with the Aussies having an edge going in.
....and at last my 1000th post!!!