Fact Check: Will ICC hold India Vs Australia World Cup final again?

After India’s defeat in the ICC World CUP 2023, a video went viral in which a man claimed that the final between India and Australia would be played again. He is also making a bizarre claim while the Indians struggled, the Aussie players could score runs because they were using bats fitted with springs.

He could be heard saying in the viral video, “There is big news coming from Narendra Modi stadium. Though Australia won the World Cup, the final match will be played again because it was found that Australians were using bats fitted with spring. While Indian batters like Rohit and Kohli failed, the Australian batters thrashed Indian bowlers like anything. Because of this, BCCI doubted that Australian batters were using spring bats and found the same in the investigation. ICC also fined Australia for not following the script of Jay Shah. At present, there is a discussion going to finalize the schedule of the final match.”

An Instagram page, The Fauxy Sports, shared the video with the caption, “Spring found in Australian batsman's bat, World Cup final will be held again.” (Translated from Hindi caption)

At the time of writing this article, the video has garnered over 1.5 million views.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found that The Fauxy is a satirical web portal that publishes satirical content that is not true.

We skimmed through the Instagram page of The Fauxy Sports and found several videos making bizarre claims: Sachin Tendulkar’s newly installed statue will be removed from Wankhede Stadium because three India players failed to score a century against Srilanka and Rohit Sharma has brought spring bat-like Ricky Pointing to take revenge of 2003 World Cup.

We also found “Sports Satire” mentioned in the bio of the Instagram page, which confirms that it posts satirical content related to sports.

Further, we checked the link provided in the video, which directed us to the website of The Fauxy.

The disclaimer on the website reads, “Fauxy is a satirical web portal. The material published on this website is based on fiction. Readers are advised not to consider articles in the fauxy to be factual.”

In its About section, the website talks about connecting to “young, intelligent, and diverse audiences” through “thought-provoking comedy and high-impact storytelling”.

NewsMeter, in the past, has also debunked several satirical contents by The Fauxy, which were viral on social media as the true information. (Click here, here and here to read the reports)

Hence, we conclude that the viral video is a satire and warn people not to fall for it.