Kapil Dev has reacted to this statement of Virat Kohli.
New Zealand beat India by eight wickets with 33 balls to spare, reducing India’s net run rate. Kapil said that no criticism is enough for the shoddy performance by the Men in Blue.
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World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev was shocked by Virat Kohli’s honest comment where he said that the team was not ‘brave enough’ when they took the field against New Zealand in the ICC. t20 world cup Group 2 match in Dubai which resulted in a massive win for New Zealand. This defeat has also ensured that India is on the verge of extinction. While talking to ABP News, Kapil said that Kohli made a weak statement despite not being that kind of person. “He’s a fighter. I think he got lost in the moment or something. A captain shouldn’t say words like ‘we weren’t brave enough’. You’re playing for your country and you have passion. But when If you say such words, fingers will definitely be raised.
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New Zealand beat India by eight wickets with 33 balls to spare, reducing India’s net run rate. Kapil said that no criticism is enough for the shoddy performance by the Men in Blue. “I have no words. How much can we criticize? A team that claims to have played the IPL and got practice, when it plays like this, will be criticized. When you win, as much praise. It is not enough to be done, but it is not enough to criticize now because he did not play the kind of cricket that was expected of him. You fight and you lose, we understand. But today there was not a single performance like this. So that we can be happy.”
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Earlier, Kohli had made his assessment public after the loss to the host broadcaster. “Quite bizarre. To be very honest and brutal, I don’t think we were brave enough with bat or ball.” This did not go down well with the former captain, who felt that a ‘big player’ like Virat Kohli should not have made such a statement. “For a big player like him, it’s a very weak statement. If that’s the kind of body language that the team has and if the captain has that kind of thought process, it’s really hard to lift the team. Those words I felt a little strange listening to him. He is not that kind of player.”
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