Former India player turned commentator Aakash Chopra believes Ravi Shastri will have the pain of not winning an ICC event during his tenure as Team India’s head coach. He said that as India has failed to qualify for the semi-finals in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2021.
Notably, Rahul Dravid will replace him now. While talking about Ravi Shastri’s tenure as head coach in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said that he might be dismayed by Team India’s failure to win an ICC event under his guidance.
“Ravi Shastri will not be seen as the Indian coach hereafter. If you talk about World Cups or ICC events, you could have won at least one of the three trophies, whether it was the 2019 World Cup or the ICC mace or this World Cup. If you play three World Cups and don’t win even one of them and you don’t even qualify in one, it might remain as a thorn in his [Shastri’s] mind,” he elaborated.
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“I feel India could have done better in white-ball cricket. We won bilateral series repeatedly, whether it was ODIs or T20Is. But the one legacy Ravi Shastri did not leave behind was that the team did not start playing a different brand of cricket,” Chopra added.
“He made a very good Test team” – Aakash Chopra
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However, Aakash Chopra praised Ravi Shastri for making a formidable Test side, which did well in overseas conditions and especially in Australia as well. He also mentioned that New Zealand was probably the only country against which Team India struggled in a Test series during his tenure.
“He made a very good Test team. The Indian team went to Australia and defeated them twice, no one had done that earlier. We played well in England. We should have won in South Africa, if we had done slightly better selection, we could have won. I feel when we will go there under Rahul Dravid’s guidance, we will win as well. It won’t be that easy, their team has become good. We couldn’t conquer New Zealand,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
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