India match against the minnows Namibia only of academic interestThe danger did not wake up early in the tournament as an unforgiving and unpredictable as the T20 World Cup is expected to eventually take a toll on the Indian team on Sunday night.
On the eve of their last league match in Group Two against the minnows Namibia, Virat Kohli & Co.
knocked out of the campaign in which they never really belonged.
Two losses to Pakistan and New Zealand -in which they got outplayed – already put India on the way out.
From there, it was more than expectation throwing battle against expectations and ultimately all comes crashing to New Zealand eight-wicket win over Afghanistan.
Enhanced run-level, the next game against Namibia, the social media frenzy and a billion of hope – there is no problem now.
India will take flight back home and start their journey to the 2022 edition of the T20 World Cup under new head coach and new captain with fresh notes.
The campaign also brought an end to a four-year task of head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar, who has decided to move.
term incredible to see them India reached the top of Test cricket glory with back-to-back series win in Australia, near-win at the recent tour of England, three seasons to dominate at home and ran a phenomenal until the semi-finals in 2019 ICC 50-over World Cup.
However, did not manage to bring the ICC Trophy back to a single home between 2017 and 2021 will remain a barren patch in the running for the team if not pleasant.
The same thing will stand true to Virat Kohli as he bows out of the T20 captain and can also release the same in the 50-over format immediately.
After Dravid took over former junior national bowling coach Paras Mhambrey and former women’s team fielding coach Abhay Sharma likely to be joined by former India captain as a senior men’s team coaching staff.
The Indian team has been on the road since the third week of May, landing first in England to play in the World Test Championship final, followed by the five-Test series (eventually four) against England and leg coverings of the IPL before the World Cups.
However, the fatigue-level though, the team faltered in various fields as well.
Shreyas Iyer and Yuzvendra Chahal non-selection, the uncertainty about who is going to open, a middle-order that is not planned and did not have a game plan in the form of Shardul Thakur was able to focus on aspects of the Indian team to see.