India searches for answers after another ICC event final defeat

Sports Nov, 20 2023
India searches for answers after another ICC event final defeat
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Delhi: India were left grappling for answers after the team’s devastating defeat to Australia in the final of the ICC World Cup 2023 at home extending their drought in global tournaments. 

A much-fancied India team led by skipper Rohit Sharma went into Sunday’s final in front of nearly 100,000 fans in Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad undefeated and favourites to capture the ODI crown. But they were outplayed by Pat Cummins’ Australia, going down to a six-wicket defeat and leaving players, fans and pundits with a familiar feeling of disappointment.

“You can’t deny the fact that it’s been more than 10 years since they won a global title,” Indian sports journalist R. Kaushik told AFP yesterday.

“If you look at the semi-final losses then there is a pattern, maybe there is something wrong in the planning,” he added. “You can interpret that as, ‘Yes, they freeze on the big stage’, or you can say that, ‘On that day they were not good enough’. But it’s hard to say they freeze mentally.” India’s record makes for painful reading for its hundreds of millions of fanatical supporters. Their last global title came a decade ago with the 2013 Champions Trophy. Sunday was also India’s second loss to the Australians in a final in five months after they went down in the World Test Championship decider in June. India won the ODI World Cup in 1983 and 2011 at home but then faltered at the semi-final stage in 2015 and 2019.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 21 2023

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