T20 World Cup, India vs New Zealand Highlights: India staring at an exit after being shut down by New Zealand Cricket News – Times of India

DUBAI: India’s superstar cricketers were ejected for the second straight Sunday as a disciplined New Zealand pushed them towards the exit door with an easy eight-wicket win in the ICC. t20 world cup.
The defeat that has put India in grave danger of losing the semi-finals also raises questions about the outgoing T20 captain Virat KohliGross failure to win the ICC tournament in four attempts as captain.
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While Kohli is set to step down from T20 captaincy, the loss also casts doubts on the future of his ODI leadership.
If the Pakistan match was a humiliating experience, the encounter against New Zealand was embarrassing to say the least as the small target of 111 was chased down Daryl Mitchell (49 runs in 35 balls) and captain Kane Williamson (33 not out off 31 balls) in just 14.3 overs.
It was when India posted 110 for 7 in 20 overs that they did not score effectively in those nine overs (54 dot balls). Worse, they were able to hit just one boundary between overs 8 and 15 when the two spinners were in operation.

The equation for India is now in a mess and only Afghanistan’s win over New Zealand can spark hopes of an outside chance to qualify for the semi-finals.
That too if Afghanistan, Namibia and Scotland win all their remaining matches.
But for all practical purposes, Kohli’s team, with its archaic version of T20 cricket, doesn’t deserve a place in the last four.
New Zealand exposed the organisation’s shortcomings, mostly a poor mindset and atrocious shot selection, something that had been done by Pakistan just a week earlier.

After the T20 World Cup, not many senior players can be seen playing in the shortest format as what this team swears by – playing fearless cricket – was nowhere to be seen.
It looked like catching practice was in progress for the New Zealand team as most of the batsmen got out and failed miserably while trying to push the pace. There were 54 dot balls, which meant that India scored no runs in nine of their 20 overs.
There were no monsters in the track and India’s poor performance with the willow was a result of poor team selection, not relying on players of form and the failure of the side to have any flexibility, which lacked proper multi-skilled cricketers.

And true to ‘Murphy’s Law’ that “anything that can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible time”, the team simply fell apart.
for example, Rohit Sharma And Virat Kohli both lost form at the same time. The middle order, which was a matter of concern, remained the same and Hardik Pandya as a batsman completely flopped on the big day.
He bowled an over but one didn’t need to be an expert to understand that he was far from bowling fit.
But the biggest thing was how a country, whose players are considered masters of spin bowling, looked ignorant against the slow pace.
Like the Pakistan game, the spinners – left-arm orthodox Mitchell Santner (4-0-15-0) and the leg-spinner ish sodhi (4-0-17-2) – Embraced India for just 32 runs in eight overs.
India changed their batting order but it hardly paid any dividends as there was no firepower in the power play and 40 for 3 in eight overs could only spell doom.
Ishaan Kishan tried to whip one Trent Boult (4-0-20-3) But Santner took a catch at the deep square leg boundary.
KL Rahul (18) hit a couple of boundaries during his 16-ball stay at the crease, but not for a moment, did he look confident enough to pick up the bowlers.
Tim Southee (4-0-26-1), on the stroke of the power play, exposed Rahul’s problems against the short ball as Santner collected a pull-shot, finishing second of the night.
Rohit Sharma (14) was gone when Ish Sodhi pitched a bit to one on short length, tried to pull it in front of the square, but was caught by Martin Guptill, who made it to 40 for three. adequately assessed.
Kohli, who until recently, has been playing the role of an anchor, never went ahead and during his tight presence on the wicket, the pressure only increased on the team.
Sodhi bowled a conventional leg-break outside off-stump and the Indian skipper, trying to hit against the turn, found Boult over the long-on boundary.
Pandya (23 off 24 balls), in his current form, is not a threat to either team and Rishabh Pant, after being silenced by two Black Caps spinners, got a quick and direct one from Milne, breaking his defense.
Once Pant was gone, any chance of winning the game was thrown out of the Dubai International Stadium and deep into the Arabian Sea.