It ended in a whimper, the match dead long before the last ball was bowled. The crowd kept cheering though — every four, every single, every good defensive stroke, every little speck of resistance — and at some point, the cheers would have hurt as much as the jeers.
India began Day 5 of the World Test Championship final with hope but when they lost Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja within three balls in the seventh over of the day, the writing was on the wall; their tournament was done, they had ended another ICC tournament without a trophy.
India started the day needing 280 runs with 7 wickets in hand, but then they proceeded to collapse in just 20.3 overs on a pitch that was still good for batting. Scott Boland was very good for Australia but the day’s proceedings were an apt reflection of the two-year WTC cycle for Rohit Sharma and Co; one in which their top-order batters simply failed to get going.
In the post-match presser, the frustration was evident on Sharma’s face. He along with Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja has now been part of four ICC final losses. The team once again has to go searching for answers. Each loss cannot be down to ’nothing’ or a one-off or be an aberration.
“The wicket, honestly, stayed pretty good all five days,” said Sharma. “That was one of the reasons for us to consider batting last because we thought the wicket will not change too much. In fact, it will get better and better. But obviously a lot of the things that we spoke of -- how we want to bowl, how we want to bat, we didn’t actually do that. That’s probably the reason we were very much behind in the game all four days.”
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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