IND vs AUS | Twitter and Ahmedabad go wild after Cummins' 'crazy' toss decision give 2003 final flashback

In front of a record crowd at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Saturday, Rohit Sharma and Pat Cummins walked into the middle for the toss with the baggage of millions of hopes behind them. While the former was handed the responsibility to hand te Men in Blue a first major trophy in a decade, the pacer in canary yellow was gunning for a sixth World Cup title for the men from Down Under. Ravi Shastri's booming voice filled the stadium as match referee Andy Pycroft handed the coin to the home captain whose flip landed on tails, in alignment with the loud call made by his counterpart. Loud jeers instantly rang around the largest cricket arena on planet Earth, the Indian contingent seemingly having resigned to a dismal stroke of fortune, but few could have expected what followed.

After a brief first pump, Cummins surprisingly declared his intention to field first. The one lakh-plus present at the ground needed no second invitation to turn their boos into a deafening cheer, prompting the Australian skipper to speculate with a smirk they were essentially calling him crazy. While Cummins put the decision largely down to dew, Rohit conceded he would have opted to set a target regardless. Interestingly, when the two sides had last met in the summit clash 20 years ago in Johannesburg, the then Indian captain Sourav Ganguly had similarly chosen to bowl much to the dismay of experts and critics which had led to an embarrassing 125-run defeat.

Twitterati was quick to draw parallels between the two occasions and labelled the turn of events as the first step in India's bid for the title on the fateful day.

Good toss to lose

Yeah boy

Happy fans

Scared

No jinxing please

Big W

It's gonna be a good game

Goku vibes

History!

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