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Sunil Gavaskar lashes out at Indian batsmen after they fell 209 runs to Australia, resulting in Baji Greens’ first World Series title.
“Hitting was a mess today. It was just ridiculous what we saw today. Especially the shot making. We saw some normal shots yesterday from Pujara, someone you would never expect to play that shot. Someone probably went to his head and said ‘Strike rate, strike rate’.” You didn’t even last a session. 8 wickets didn’t last a session? Come on,” Gavaskar said while speaking to Star Sports.
Speaking about Virat Kohli’s dismissal, he said, “It was a very ordinary shot. Outside the stump. He was leaving even then. He was probably aware that he needed one race to reach his half-century. That happens when you approach a milestone. It happened to Jadeja.” He played a role he shouldn’t have when he was 48. It happened to Ajinkya Rahan who was 46. He didn’t play that shot for that long. All of a sudden why are you playing that shot? Because you are aware of this guru.” .
He said: “It was a bad shot. You should ask Kohli what shot he played. He talks a lot about how to win a game that needs long innings. How would you do that if you played a ball far out of the field?”
“I think hitters when they know they’re near a landmark tend to try to do something to get to their landmark, so we saw that in the first innings with Jadeja he hit really well at 48 and pushed his bat out when he thought he could run the ball down, got caught in the slips If he hadn’t been at the 48 he probably wouldn’t have played that ball he might even have left it in. And we saw Kohli chasing a delivery off off stump, he showed a lot of discipline and then think about it! The first run can hit the other half-century mile stones I picked For the wrong balls to play the wrong shots because you want to get in. The legend said earlier in the commentary.
Meanwhile, this was India’s second consecutive defeat in the FIFA World Cup after losing to New Zealand in 2021 in the inaugural edition.
Chasing an unlikely target of 444, India started the day at 164 for 3, but soon lost mainstay Virat Kohli (49), followed by Ravindra Jadeja (0) and Ajinkia Rahan (43) to be bowled out for 234 at 63.3.
Scott Boland (3/46) was the best bowler on the scene as he removed Kohli and Jadeja in one over to finish the contest decisively and the rest was a formality.
Nathan Lyon (4/41) had the best personals as he wiped tail in the blink of an eye.
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