Virat And Rohit's Failure In Big Matches, Pressure To Win ICC Trophies: Here's Why Team India Is Getting Knocked Out Of ICC World Cup 2023

Virat And Rohit’s Failure In Big Matches, Pressure To Win ICC Trophies: Here’s Why Team India Is Getting Knocked Out Of ICC World Cup 2023. The ICC World Cup 2023 will begin on October 5 and will continue till November 19. Team Indi will kick off their campaign against Australia in Chennai on October 8. The marquee event will be played across 46 days and 10 venues.

The ICC World Cup 2023 will be played in the round-robin format with all the top teams playing each other once in the league stage. The top four sides will make the knockouts with the top two playing the final.

The format remains the same as the 2019 World Cup. The Men in Blue last won an ICC title in 2013 under the leadership of MS Dhoni which was the ICC Champions Trophy. Since then it has been a decade that India have been waiting for their next ICC title.

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The Men in Blue have lost repeatedly in the semifinals and finals of ICC events in the last decade with the team facing severe criticism for not winning an ICC final. They have lost as many as nine ICC finals in the last decade with the latest of them being the ICC T20 World Cup semi-final against England.

Not winning an ICC title in the last decade has been the bane in the Indian team. They have won bilateral series on the trot but have come second-best whenever playing an ICC knockout game. India recently lost to England in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2022 and then the final of the World Test Championship.

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Rohit Sharma as captain is under tremendous pressure to win an ICC title for Team India. He along with Virat Kohli are the two most experienced batsmen in the current white-ball setup for India. Among the bowlers, the injury concern to Jasprit Bumrah has kept the management thinking.

He is out of international cricket since the T20 World Cup last year and has missed every international assignment India have played since then. The management is expecting him to return in the upcoming series against Ireland so that he is at the peak of his fitness by the time the World Cup starts.

In this article, we will analyze three key reasons why India might lose the semi-final of the World Cup and get eliminated from the tournament.

Virat And Rohit’s Failure In Big Matches, Pressure To Win ICC Trophies: Here’s Why Team India Is Getting Knocked Out Of ICC World Cup 2023

1) Pressure To Win An ICC Title Since A Decade

As said earlier, India last won an ICC title in 2013 under the leadership of MS Dhoni. Starting with the 2014 T20 World Cup final loss, India has lost nine ICC knockout matches since then with the WTC final being the latest.

The pressure to win an ICC title seems to get to the players who have repeatedly failed to deliver in big matches. The expectations of the fans, the pressure from the media, and their own expectations add to this pressure to which they have succumbed in times past.

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2) Big Match Players Not Performing In Knockout Games

The likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have underperformed in big ICC knockouts. We can also throw KL Rahul in the mix as he along with Rohit and Kohli are the batting pillars of this current Indian team.

Rohit scored a duck and Kohli scored just five in the 2017 Champions Trophy final against Pakistan. Against New Zealand, in the ICC World Cup semi-final, Rohit, Kohli, and Rahul scored 1 each as India were bowled out for 221 chasing 240 to win against New Zealand.

Against England in the T20 World Cup semi-final, Rahul scored 5 and Rohit 27. Virat Kohli’s knock of 50 was not enough to help India post a fighting total as England won with 10 wickets to spare.

In the recently played WTC final. Kohli and Rohit were disappointed once again as none of the batters went past 50 in both innings.

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3) The Pressure To End Losing Streak In Knockout Matches

As said earlier, India has lost nine ICC knockout semi-final or final matches on the trot. India had a chance to end the losing streak by winning the WTC final which they failed to do.

The pressure of ending the losing streak might end up extending India’s run of losses in knockout games. Among all the three reasons, the failure of the Indian batters to score runs in big finals has been one of the key reasons behind India’s continued run of losses in ICC knockouts.

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