Vaibhav Tripathi
Former captain Sourav Ganguly said that it was always going to be a herculean task for India to score 280 runs on the last day of the WTC final versus Australia at The Oval. In the first session itself, India lost seven wickets and slipped to a crushing 209-run loss.
“Anti-climax for sure but we were expecting too much today (Sunday) morning. 280 runs are a lot when you have only three batters left – Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ajinkya Rahane,” said Ganguly during a post-match discussion on Star Sports.
Ganguly also pointed out that the wickets in countries like England and Australia tend to become double-paced on the final day, making it difficult to score runs.
“The fifth day’s cricket is different in these countries because the wickets become up and down and there is movement. From the top, you feel it is extremely flat. It is green but it does not have the pace. It becomes double-paced, whether it is England or Australia. That is why probably such runs have not been scored for the last 100 years,” he concluded.