ODI World Cup, 2023

[Kumar]

Sorry to disagree. We did not choke it away. We do not have batting after 5. So once we were down 3 wickets, they went into shell and it was game over after kohli’s dismissal

Team mgmt put so much faith on Sky and he failed big time. He had a great chance to make an impact and failed abysmally.

Also, Siraj performance in this World Cup was very ordinary. Did not make a difference.

[Rajkumar Sharma]

I fully agree. Team is bunch of chokers. Failing every time in ICC Knockouts. Shreyas & SKY can move a running car, but they can't move the car which is struck.

[SaniaFan]

I was thinking India was hard done by the conditions and Toss played a huge part as I did not see the initial part of the match. But all credit to Australia for taking a great decision to bowl first. They will be a well deserved world champions.

India would have lost this match irrespective of the toss as Rohit was going to bat in any case.

[Rajkumar Sharma]

Toss did'nt matter. They did'nt thought of dew which has destroyed the team in last two ICC encounters.

[Kumar]

If Indian team was going to bat first on this pitch, that is just stupid.

Anyway, well played Rohit and co. Rohit badly wanted to win a big trophy and would be disappointed.

@Prasen, do u see why kohli staying is so important. We just had 5 batsman and 2 of them failed today. May be Gill should have been replaced with someone like Jaiswal after he got dengue. He had a very ordinary wc.

[Mukherjee Babu]

SKY does'nt know, when to accelerate continued giving strike to tailanders and failed when required.

[jayakris]

I got up, started watching, and the first ball was the third out at 47/3 from the Aussies. No luck after that. 87/3 now. Should I stop watching?

Single-handedly, You have caused india to lose by watching . Well u need to go back to sleep.

Hey, I had a part only in the first 40 runs of that partnership. I went away then. We still couldn't do the job. So I will crawl back under the rock and stop paying attention to cricket again. It was good fun to follow this tournament, after I was asking here what was going on a few weeks ago (on seeing a Shashi Tharoor tweet about RSA players in Kerala, iirc)... I was not even aware that the world cup was about to start in India!! It was fun to see us being dominant as a top-2 side in the tournament and racking up 10 wins in a row - that was great.

I will go back to tennis, Indian football, Texas Longhorns, etc. At least our football team won, and the Longhorns did too, this week.

[Kumar]

It was fun.. probably time for me to also crawl back under the rock. This team will be undergoing transformation and there will be growing pain.

[indiansportsfan]

Eventually it was the ultra aggressive Rohit's batting approach that led to our defeat. When you have only 2 reliable batsmen in the lineup, then for one of them to go bonkers like this just doesn't make any sense. It would be fine if it was one of the "disposable" batsmen like Gill, Iyer or SKY that played like this, or if this was a T20 game.

I am quite certain that if we had the old Rohit going slow initially and then going bonkers at the end, we would be in a much better spot and could have won this game. I don't think we ever lost a game in the past in which Rohit played through most of the innings, unless he got absolutely 0 support at the other end.

Also our next gen proved pathetic and our bowling failed to deliver when it counted. We should have given Jaiswal and Rinku Singh a shot at making the team because they could have made a difference. Our team management and selectors need to shoulder the blame for taking passengers in the team.

[Atithee]

^^This is patently false. We got to the finals because of Rohit’s belligerence. Too bad today Iyer et al didn’t build on it. If you hit only four 4s and zero 6s in almost 30 overs nothing can save you from losing against a seasoned campaigner as Australia.

[indiansportsfan]

I don't agree with your statement. We would have gotten to SF with or without Rohit playing the way he did, such was the gap between the sides.
In the SF, I don't think Rohit's innings were very impactful, in the end, it may have made a difference of 10-15 runs if he had played normally and gotten out at the time he did but wouldn't have affected the outcome.
So in the end, it was only the finals where his innings mattered. Given the slow nature of the pitch, he should have taken it easy and let Gill, Iyer etc hit and throw away their wickets. That the best batsmen of the team throws away his wicket like this is absolutely asinine.

[Rajkumar Sharma]

When a team like Australia meets you second time after loss in first game, its obvious they will come hard.Rohit talked lots about horses for courses in previous games. He should have thought more on SKY's spot and brought Kishan in the Playing XI or should have send Jadeja ahead of Iyer.

[sameerph]

He should have thought more on SKY's spot and brought Kishan in the Playing XI or should have send Jadeja ahead of Iyer.

Iyer had just hit a terrific 100 in the SF at a brisk rate. So, why would he bring in Jadeja who has no real record of playing long innings in his place ?

[Rajkumar Sharma]

He should have thought more on SKY's spot and brought Kishan in the Playing XI or should have send Jadeja ahead of Iyer.

Iyer had just hit a terrific 100 in the SF at a brisk rate. So, why would he bring in Jadeja who has no real record of playing long innings in his place ?

There's the brain of a captain.How many had thought MSD would come to bat ahead of red hot form Yuvraj Singh in that final ?

[sameerph]

But, his brain said that Iyer should have been there in that place, not Jadeja. If you are thinking that would have been better, explain why you think so.