Australia in Finals

Australia trounced the West Indies by 127 runs in the finals of the DLF cup - Scorecard. Since the 1999 World Cup, Australia has made it to 13 Finals and has won every one of them. The only time they have lost in any finals was against Sri Lanka in 2005-06 where they lost the first final - but went onto win the second and the third.

Disregarding that loss, Australia has won batting first 12 times while batting second 6 times.

• While batting second Australia has never won by less than 6 wickets - and on an average by 8 wickets.
• While batting first Australia has won 50% of their games by over a 125 runs, and on an average by 88 runs.
• Australia has successfully defended a total as low as 192.
• While batting first Australia has scored over 300 runs 5 times.

Australia, it seems, saves their best performance for the finals.