Even their fans wouldn’t have expected them to perform the way they did in such a high-pressure encounter. To many who saw the match unfold either from the stands or on their televisions were amazed how the Pakistanis players dominated the game from start to finish and never allowed Indians to get back in the match.
Their bowlers never allowed Indian batters to get off the hook, their fielders threw themselves on the ground and worked hard to save runs as if their life depended on it and their two openers batted like men possessed, making a mockery of India’s world-class bowling attack. The Indian players looked a shadow of themselves in all three departments while their counterparts came into the match with a determination to break this jinkx and rewrite the history books and they succeeded in doing that.Īs per Indian skipper Virat Kohli’s own admission after the game, the Indian team was completely outplayed by the opposition in all three fields. This streak that began with a 43-run win during the 1992 ODI World Cup saw its culmination in Dubai when Pakistan began their 2021 T20 World Cup campaign with a massive 10-wicket win. Before this game, the Men In Blue enjoyed a 12-0 winning streak against their arch-rivals in the World Cups tournaments, including both the T20 and 50-over World Cups. They went into their T20 World Cup opener as overwhelming favourites, at least that’s what most pundits claimed before the game, but their performance didn’t reflect the same and they ended up suffering a heavy 10-wicket loss at the hands of their cross-border neighbours Pakistan.Īpart from their current form, the reason why most people were confident about Team India’s win was their past record.
On Sunday, it was finally time for the Indian cricket team to realise that. This saying holds true for almost everything in this world, except diamonds.
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