Sunil Gavaskar pounding the Indian batsmen after they were down for 209 runs to Australia, leading the Baggy Greens to claim their first World Test Championship title.
“The hitting was a disaster today. It was just ridiculous what we saw today. Especially decision making. Yesterday we saw some ordinary shots from Pujara, someone you never expect to play that shot. Maybe someone got it in their head and said ‘hit rate, hit rate’. You haven’t even lasted one session. 8 wickets have not lasted a session? Come on,” Gavaskar said as he spoke to Star Sports.
Talking about virat kohli‘s dismissal, he said, ‘It was a pretty normal shot. Off the stump off. He was leaving until then. Perhaps he was aware that he needed a career to reach his half century. It occurs when you are approaching a milestone. He passed to Jadeja. She made a delivery that she shouldn’t have made when she was 48 years old. he happened to Ajinkya Rahane which was at 46. I hadn’t played that shot all this time. All of a sudden why are you playing that shot? Because you are aware of that milestone, ”he added.
Tearing Kohli further, he said: “It was a bad shot. You should ask Kohli what shot he played. He talks so much about how to win a game that you need long innings. How are you going to do that if you play a ball so far from the stump?”
“I think hitters, when they know they’re close to a benchmark, they tend to try to do something to get to their benchmark, so we saw that in the early innings with Jadeja he was hitting so well at 48 and he pushed his bat when he thought he could run the ball down he was caught in the slips if he wasn’t on 48 he might not even play that ball he might have put it down. And we saw Kohli chase a delivery off the stump. He showed so much discipline that he thought oh! 1 run can reach another half century milestone mile stones you picked the wrong balls to play the wrong shots because you want to get there. It happens so often,” the legend had previously said in a comment.
Meanwhile, this was India’s second loss in successive WTC finals after losing to New Zealand in 2021 in the inaugural edition.
Chasing an unlikely target of 444, India started the day at 164 for 3 but soon lost batting prop Virat Kohli (49), followed by Ravindra Jadeja (0) and Ajinkya Rahane (43) will be bowled out for 234 in 63.3 overs.
Scott Boland (3/46) was the best bowler in sight as he bowled out Kohli and Jadeja in a single to decisively end the contest and the rest was formality.
Nathan Lyon (4/41), however, had the best figures as he cleared the tail in a jiffy.
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