Sourav Ganguly has opened up on India’s T20 World Cup debacle.
Unlike the ICC T20 World Cup, India impressed the world with some good cricket in the ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup, where they won most of the games (except England) until their semi-final loss to New Zealand.
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BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has said that India’s performance in the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 was the ‘poorest’ in recent times. The Virat Kohli-led side lost their first two games against Pakistan and New Zealand but came back strong after beating Namibia, Afghanistan and Scotland. However, by this time their chances of reaching the semi-finals were over.
,[I am] I am a little disappointed with the way we played this World Cup. I think this has been the poorest of what I have seen in the last four-five years,” said the former India captain.
Unlike the ICC T20 World Cup, India Had impressed the world with some good cricket in ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup where they won most of the games (except England) until losing in the semi-finals to New Zealand.
“To be honest, 2017″ [and] 2019, I think India was good. 2017 Champions Trophy We lost the final to Pakistan at The Oval, then I was a commentator. Then the 2019 World Cup in England, we were exceptional the whole time, beat everyone and lost to New Zealand in the semi-final – one bad day and the whole good work was wiped out for two months,” he said in a statement. In conversation with Boria Majumdar on his show “Backstage with Boriya”,
Pakistan beat India by ten wickets, while New Zealand also beat them by 8 wickets. The former India captain did not say anything specific for the defeat.
“I don’t know what the reason is but I thought they didn’t play with enough freedom in this World Cup. Sometimes it happens in big tournaments, you just get stuck and when I saw them play against Pakistan and New Zealand, I thought this is the team which is playing at 15 per cent of their potential. And sometimes you just can’t point a finger at that, which is why it happened,” he said.
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