'Chasing misfortune' for India..!? Will Luck change this time..!?

Sowmiya Sriram
'Chasing misfortune' for India..!? Will Luck change this time..!?
Team india has not won any ICC world cup in the last 10 years. That's not to say they played badly. In the last 10 years, the indian team reached the finals 5 times but failed to win even once. Let's look at this in detail. india last won the Champions Trophy in 2013. india and england teams clashed in that match. Due to rain, the match was reduced to 20 overs. Batting first, india scored only 129 runs. england batted next and scored only 124 runs. 14 runs needed off the final over. Our Ashwin will bowl the last over. While the first ball was a dot ball, the next ball went for a boundary. However, he bowled the next 4 balls brilliantly as england managed to score only 9 runs in that over. india won by 5 runs.
This is the last ICC trophy won by the indian team. Since then we have not won any ICC trophy in the last 10 years. Since then we have reached the final five times in various ICC series but never won the trophy. Let's take a look at the last 10 years of ICC tournaments where india has lost in the finals. Failures: Last t20 world cup final in 2014. india batted first and scored 130 runs. Batting next, sri lanka steadily progressed towards the target despite losing wickets from time to time. With this, the Sri Lankan team reached the target in the 18th over and won. Next, no one will forget the Champions Trophy series in 2017 so soon. In the final of the series, india and pakistan played a multi-Test final. Batting first, the Pakistani batsmen outwitted the indian bowlers. pakistan scored 338 runs.
Defeat: india went into the field with the target of winning if they scored 339 runs. However, the indian players stumbled right from the start. In the end, the indian team managed to score only 158 runs. pakistan won by 180 runs. When the world cup was held in india last year, many people thought that india would definitely win it. Accordingly, the indian team crushed all the teams in the league matches. india advanced to the final after defeating new zealand in the semi-final as well. However, we lost as usual in the finals. Batting first, the indian team managed to score only 240 runs in the 50-over final at the narendra modi Stadium. Only Rohit, kohli and rahul played well. Except for them, no one else has much soap. As a result, india could score only 240 runs.


Defeat in the Test series: Despite a poor start for australia, who batted next, Travis Head remained the anchor. He alone scored 137 runs off 120 balls. In the end, Marnus Labuschagne showed composure as australia reached the target in 43 overs and won by 6 wickets. Apart from this, this is the story of the Test championship series as well. Batting first, india were all out for 217 in the 2021 Test championship final. new zealand batted next and scored 249 runs. india was then reduced to just 179 in the 2nd innings. Next new zealand reached the target losing only 2 wickets.
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