Forever The Underdogs, New Zealand Finally Finish On Top

India’s captain Virat Kohli, second right, congratulates New Zealand’s Ross Taylor and captain Kane Williamson, right, on their win on the sixth day of the World Test Championship final.
(Photo: PTI)

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…

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