Indian Team Out of Excuses
When New Zealand beat India by 10 runs in the 2007 T20 World Cup despite scoring just 190 runs, the excuse was that a couple of the Indian bowlers, namely Ajit Agarkar and S Sreesanth, had an off day.
When the team trumped India at their own game with their spinners breathing fire on a dust bowl in the World Twenty20 clash at Nagpur in 2016, India apparently had slices of luck going against them.
The 18-run defeat of Kohli’s men in the 2019 ODI World Cup semi-final was put down to 40 minutes of bad play, the inclement English weather, and the match stretching over two days.
When India were whitewashed in New Zealand in a two-match Test series last year, the conditions and the pitch were to blame.
Now, after India’s defeat in the final of the World Test…
