Michael Vaughan says that India played cricket in the 2010 World Cup. In Nasser Hussain's eyes, Kohli-Rohit cricket was not without fear.
Maybe he is right. India had to admit defeat in cricket, which was a bit shaky against Pakistan and New Zealand. In the end, those two defeats in their first two matches have written the fate of India at this year's T20 World Cup. India's exit from the group stage was confirmed yesterday. So today when India came down to play Namibia in Dubai, this match made no sense. So even though one of the two teams was called India, there were very few spectators on the pitch today.
A team like Namibia was never going to be a big obstacle against India. India proved it well by winning the match by 9 wickets with 26 balls to spare by blocking David Visa's 132 runs.
However, it was not a win or loss against Namibia, but India's only goal in this match could be to say goodbye to coach Robi Shastri and captain Virat Kohli. The Indian team has been able to do at least a good job of reducing the rain from four to six in Dubai.
Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri
Virat Kohli and Robi Shastri File Photo: AFP
Kohli had previously announced that he would not be captain of the Indian Twenty20 team after the World Cup. India has appointed legendary batsman Rahul Dravid as its new coach after Shastri's contract with the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) last World Cup.
Before that, Kohli-Shastri had cut the last 'assignment' like a nightmare. However, in the last match of the loan, India did at least one good thing. A four-on-six rain against a team like Namibia cannot be called fearless cricket, but Indian cricket has adapted to the T20s.
The Indian newspaper The Hindu reported yesterday that India could not even play with a full-fledged team in the match as the departure had already been confirmed. But whether or not it is Kohli-Shastri's last word, India has come up with a full force team.
Bumra-Shami-Ashwin-Jadejara were the bowlers, Kohli-Rohit-Pant-Rahul were all the batsmen.
Namibia's 132 runs in the face of such a batting are like flying in one go. The half-century pair of Rohit Sharma and Lokesh Rahul, as well as the stormy batting of Suryakumar, did not help India reach the goal.
Rohit has given several chances in the innings. He could have come out on the third ball of the inning! But the fine section of the service was not caught and the opposite happened. In the next over, Rohit caught the middle, but there was no one to catch him.
At the end of the match, Captain Kohli will take the field with the Indian team for the last time in T20.
Kohli will play India at the end of the match, final match of T20: AFP
That Rohit initiated the attack on behalf of India. In the first three overs, Rohit's teammate Rahul could only play three balls in the opening over, by which time Rohit had scored 25 runs. India's run was then 28. Rahul also joined the attack by hitting a six on the fourth ball of his innings in the fourth over. Later? The ball has just flown to the limit.
Rohit went for deep middle ground on the fifth ball of the tenth over, but was caught by the goalie in the opposite direction on the top edge of the bat. India's initial partnership was broken with 6 runs, of which 57 were scored by Rohit. On 36-ball innings, Rohit hit four fours and six-six. Rahul's other two sixes in the India entrances. He was undefeated at the end with 54 of 36 balls. 4 guesses 4.
Kohli's last game as captain, but Kohli did not hit in this game. After Rohit left, Suryakumar was sent to three. It was not less than four! He was undefeated in 25 of 19 balls, of which he made 16 runs with 4 fours!
Before, the 132 races in Namibia were unthinkable at the same time. Kohli won the toss and chose to hit in his last game as the captain of India's T20. The Indian captain may have intended to end the match quickly by keeping Namibia in the lead.
However, unlike Scotland in the previous match, Indian bowling was unable to knock down Namibia's batting tomorrow. The race pace is a bit slow, but newcomers to the T20 World Cup have played all 20 overs.
India needed 26 balls to break Namibia's initial alliance. The 34 Namibia races when Yashpreet Bumra returned Michael Fon Lingen to give the team its first wicket. In the next over, Rabindra Jadeja made the score 34-2 by catching Craig Williams. Steven Bird and Nicole Lofty-Eaton came back quickly and made the score 48 of 4.
After that, David Visar was paired with Captain Gerhard Erasmus (12)
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