Former head coach Ravi Shastri.
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Former head coach Ravi Shastri firmly believes that India will be a “serious challenger” within the subsequent 12 months’s T20 World Cup as a consequence of a powerful nucleus within the shortest format however reminded that rising to the event in knockout video games is a should to emerge triumphant.
It has been greater than per week since Australia trumped India, in what turned out to be a one-sided closing in Ahmedabad, with the nation’s cricket fraternity nonetheless reeling with the result, provided that the hosts had a 10-match unbeaten run going into the title conflict.
Shastri stated India have discovered a nucleus of younger gamers forward of subsequent 12 months’s T20 World Cup, to be performed within the Caribbean and the USA from June 4 subsequent 12 months.
“It was heartbreaking but a lot of our guys will learn, the game moves on, and I see India winning a World Cup very soon,” Shastri stated.
“It might not be a 50-overs (one) that easily because you have to rebuild the side but 20-overs cricket, the very next one India will be very serious challenger because you have got the nucleus. This is a shorter format of the game. Your focus should be on that.” With the presence of affect gamers corresponding to Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah and Rinku Singh, India have a powerful T20 core.
Shastri admitted that it nonetheless hurts to recall that India, who had been the strongest workforce within the competitors, didn’t ship within the closing.
“To be honest, it still hurts from the outside, that we could not win the cup because we were the strongest team.” “Nothing comes easy — even the great man Sachin Tendulkar had to wait (for) six World Cups to win one. You don’t win (a) World Cup (easily), to win a World Cup you have got to be damn good on that big day,” Shastri stated throughout the registration launch of the Indian Street Premier League right here.
“What you do earlier does not count, on that big day, that is when you rise to the occasion. Even before the start of the tournament you knew that, what happens (in terms of the format).
‘Early doors (are there), (and) once top four teams are there, in the semifinal and final, those two days if you perform, you win. And those were the two days when Australia performed when they came from nowhere,” stated the previous India skipper.
“They lost the first two, but on the D-day, the two days, they did,” Shastri stated about Australia, who received the 50-over World Cup title for a file sixth time.
With the Indian bowlers performing in unison led by Mohammed Shami, who claimed 24 wickets, Shastri stated it gave India the ‘greatest likelihood’.
“The way the bowling stood up towards the mid stage of the tournament you thought they had a great, great chance,” he stated.
