Cheers and Aus team carries their flag and take bows from the crowd as they take a lap of honour
India still had a chance when even after losing Tendulkar Sehwag took over the role, were keeping up with the rate but Australian bowlers carried on professionally and got home easily at the end
We shall soon have the cermonies folk so please stand by
A please Dr bacher summarised the game and said it was a great success (meaning the world cup and the final)
We are ready for the ceremonies
The first hour of play was India's undoing when Hayden and Gilchrist were on song
Aussie players carryin Aus flags
There is the odd stuffed kangaroo too, Bichel has one holding is the MC today for the final, intros all the ICC and other top brass
Graeme Pollock and Sobers out there too
ICC boss Malcolm Grey pays compliments to South Africa for so well organising this Cup
Congratulates Ponting and his team and Ganguly and his team
Various other congrats to officials and their awards
Indian players come up for their medals
USD 800,000 to the losing teams and Ganguly says he is disappointed but Australia did well
Congratulates his team and says they got us here and made us proud and also thanks his supporters
Man of the Match Ricky Ponting
Says everything went well and batsmen did the job
Man of the Tournament is Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin says we did not start well and pressure was on the bowlers but have bowled well for the tournament
Aus team gets the medals
Holding first says 2000 and on Pontings query, corrects to USD 2 million, and goes and lifts the World Cup!
We hope you liked the coverage of this world cup and we look forward to bringing the next one from West Indies in 4 years, tho there will be lots of cricket in between
Good Bye all