LONDON : When Mohammed Shami asked for a DRS review on an lbw decision with India nine men down and 212 runs short of their victory target in the World Test Championship final against Australia, even die-hard fans could be forgiven for wondering why he bothered.In the end, the DRS intervention only delaye
LONDON : When Mohammed Shami asked for a DRS review on an lbw decision with India nine men down and 212 runs short of their victory target in the World Test Championship final against Australia, even die-hard fans could be forgiven for wondering why he bothered.The truth of the matter is that India lost their second successive WTC final on day two of this encounter when they collapsed to 71-4 in response to Australia's first-innings total of 469.
"I thought we started well with winning the toss and we bowled pretty well in the first session. Then we let ourselves down," a dejected Indian captain Rohit Sharma said after India suffered the second successive WTC final defeat. Considering the highest-ever successful fourth-innings run chase at The Oval is 263, which England achieved against Australia more than a century ago in 1902, the task facing India looked pretty hopeless.
"In the second innings, we didn't apply ourselves with the bat. It was a good pitch to bat on all five days, the pitch behaved pretty well, but we didn't capitalise," Rohit added after India folded for 234 to hand Australia a 209-run victory.
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