India’s embarrassing 209-run loss to Australia within the ICC World Test Championship remaining 2023 landed a big blow to followers’ hopes for the ICC title on June 11. The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly identified that the team wants to attain big totals of their first innings in the event that they want to emerge victorious within the knockout levels.Â
Ganguly’s remarks got here after the team failed to achieve 300-plus totals in each innings of the WTC remaining. Rohit Sharma-led aspect was bowled out on 296 runs within the first innings after a stellar 89-run knock from Ajinkya Rahane. On the opposite hand, Australia pulled off 469 runs of their first innings regardless of dropping a toss.
The former BCCI president highlighted the distinction and also added that his team used to attain big totals at big venues constantly. He stated that scoring big totals within the first innings provides stress on opponents and the present Indian team is missing to do it in knockout matches.
“Aggression is fine but you also need performance with that. If you see the five-six years between 2001 and 2006, India’s batting scored 500-600 runs in big-big venues, whether it was Sydney, Brisbane, Headingley, Nottingham, Oval, Peshawar, Islamabad, or Lahore, due to which they put the opposition team under pressure,” Ganguly stated to Star Sports.
When requested about modifications in Test cricket within the final decade, Ganguly stated that India need to attain 350-400 of their first innings whatever the modifications in conditions and wickets.
“So I feel the Indian team will have to do that somewhere or the other. I understand cricket has changed slightly between what it was 10 years ago and now, the situations and wickets have changed, but India will have to see that they score 350-400 runs in the first innings in Test cricket,” Ganguly added.
