Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra has said that the T20 World Cup 2021 has been an extremely disappointing campaign for India captain Virat Kohli. Notably, India have failed to qualify for the semi-final of the mega event. They will play their last match against Namibia on November 8.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said: “This is where one story is ending. It is Virat Kohli’s first and last T20 World Cup as captain, he will not be seen again as a captain in the shortest format. Virat and Ravi Shastri’s pairing is also finishing here. It was an extremely disappointing campaign for Virat Kohli as a captain.”
The veteran cricketer further added that Virat Kohli losing the toss had no effect on the team’s losses against Pakistan and New Zealand.
Chopra reasoned: “He didn’t win the tosses but did you lose the matches because of that – no, that is not the truth. Good teams win matches despite losing tosses as South Africa showed us in Sharjah against England.”
We were timid in the beginning – Aakash Chopra
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However, Virat Kohli has lost three of the four tosses so far in the tournament. Although bowlers failed to step up, their below-par scores also cost them the games against Pakistan and New Zealand as well. Aakash Chopra again shared:
“We were timid in the beginning. We were slightly cagey, we were not playing in a fearless, carefree and bold fashion. What could be the reason for that, I don’t know. This could actually go down as one of Team India’s poorest World Cup campaigns.”
“I am reminded of the 2007 World Cup. After that, there were one or two T20 World Cups where we didn’t reach the semi-finals, but this is the first time in the last 7-8 years we have not done that. So, this is going to hurt really really badly,” he concluded.
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