New Delhi: Looking at the condition of Team India in the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23, it seems that India's dream of winning the ICC trophy for 10 years will still not be fulfilled. In the first two days of this match, Australia has been heavy and Team India is seen in the back foot. On the second day of the match, India's top order was shattered like cards and captain Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli returned to the pavilion after scoring 15, 13, 14, 14 runs respectively. Seeing this condition of Team India, former head coach and cricketer Ravi Shastri has lashed out at Cheteshwar Pujara.
In fact, Gill was bowled out by Scott Boland, while Pujara was shown the way to Cameron Green's pavilion. Shastri said that Shubman is still young and he will learn with time, but the experienced Pujara's wicket was very disappointing. Team India lost the wickets of Rohit and Gill by 30 runs and the team was under immense pressure. In such a situation, Pujara and Kohli had a big responsibility to handle the innings. Pujara's wicket fell and India came on the back foot completely in the match. Let me tell you, both Pujara and Gill returned to the pavilion in the same way. Ravi Shastri, who was commentating in this final match, said on air, 'It was very useless to leave this ball, the front foot across was gone. It should have gone in the direction of the ball. He wanted to play this ball, but later decided to leave. The way he (Pujara) dropped the ball, his off stump was completely exposed. It's a mistake in understanding the ball. "We talk about dropping the ball in England, talking about where you know where your off stump is."
"Here you didn't know where the off stump was, see Shubman Gill looked a bit lazy in his footwork, but he will learn with time, he is still a young player, but Pujara will be very disappointed to see his wicket. That is why it is said that you should know where your off stump is. Australia have scored 469 runs while batting first, in response, India has scored 151 runs for the loss of 5 wickets by the end of the second day's play."
WTC Final: Team India on the backfoot, batting order completely destroyed, hope from Rahane-Bharat
