Regardless of being the best group in the competition, India experienced a humiliating loss to Australia in the last of the Cricket World Cup 2023 on Sunday. The Aussies totally defeated the hosts, be it in bowling, batting, or handling, with Tavis Head’s ton fixing the group’s destiny ever. As savants ponder what turned out badly for India in the title fight, previous Pakistan chief Shoaib Malik rushed to point a finger at KL Rahul. The wicket-manager hitter’s unfortunate strike rate in the center request, according to Malik, cost India the game.
“KL Rahul was simply attempting to bat through the 50 overs. He shouldn’t have done that and ought to have attempted to play his game. On the off chance that you’re batting in extreme circumstances and the limits aren’t coming effectively, basically you must turn strike. That wasn’t going on, there were a ton of dab balls,” Shoaib Malik in a talk on A Games.
“He has been assuming a ton of liability when India lose fast wickets front and center. In the event that you will see his the present innings 66 off 107 balls, it was anything but a KL Rahul innings. He went into a zone, where he simply needed to play the entire fifty overs. He ought to have been somewhat more proactive,” he added.
While there’s no rejecting that batting initially wasn’t as kind with the Narendra Modi Arena track, when contrasted with batting second, Malik feels the Australians figured out how to survey the circumstances better than the Indians.
“The setting where this match was played had long side limits. The Australian used these limits well overall. They said we won’t allow you to hit us down the ground and you can hit us square of the wicket. Their bowlers utilized varieties quite well. The Australians surveyed the Indian circumstances better than the Indians and afterward executed their arrangements,” Malik further affirmed.
“KL Plays turn well overall and we have seen it all through the competition. He plays well square of the wicket, front of the wicket, utilizes his feet all around well. Yet, today his methodology was that he was pausing. He perhaps was not confiding in different players. He was contemplating getting group to 250 and it got troublesome,” said Misbah-ul-Haq, on the show.
With the loss, India’s chase after an ICC title stays unsettled. For any semblance of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, and a couple of different players this presumably was the last an open door to assist the country with packing its third ODI World Cup title.
The group presently returns to the planning phase, determined to create a superior system for what’s to come.
