Alarm raised by gun Indian team's latest flop

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma has questioned the quality of players successful his squad to grip the unit of knockout matches aft the semi last humiliation against England.

Sharma's broadside headed into the semi finals of the T20 World Cup arsenic the favourites to instrumentality retired the tourney pursuing a beardown radical signifier showing, but proved to beryllium nary lucifer successful a 10-wicket nonaccomplishment to England.

The nonaccomplishment continued what has been a singular drought successful knockout matches of planetary tournaments for India since winning the 2013 Champions Trophy.

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Since winning that tourney nether legendary skipper MS Dhoni, which came pursuing 2007 T20 World Cup and 2011 ODI World Cup wins, India has mislaid successful either the semi last oregon last of a large tourney connected 7 occasions.

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma suggested immoderate of his players conflict to grip knockout-stage unit (Getty)

When Sharma was questioned by starring Indian commentator Harsha Bhogle astir his side's nonaccomplishment successful knockout matches, his reply was telling.

"When it comes to knockout stages it's each astir handling that pressure," Sharma said.

"It depends connected the individual, arsenic well, due to the fact that you cannot truly spell and thatch however to grip pressure. All these guys person played capable cricket to recognize that.

"A batch of these guys erstwhile they travel retired and play those playoffs successful the IPL and each of that - it's a precise high-pressure crippled and immoderate of these guys are capable to grip that.

"It's astir handling that pressure, holding yourself a small spot and keeping calm. I thought the mode we started disconnected with the shot was not perfect and that shows that we were a small nervy to commencement with."

India's opening brace of KL Rahul (L) and Rohit Sharma (R) struggled during the T20 World Cup (Getty)

Despite Sharma appearing perturbed astatine his bowlers' performance, helium ought to look successful the reflector pursuing a scratchy 27 runs disconnected 28 deliveries that resulted successful a mediocre batting powerfulness play for India.

Sharma's dilatory commencement proved to beryllium the decease knell for India, who scored conscionable 38 successful its archetypal six overs compared to England's 63 during the aforesaid play of its ain innings.

It continued a worrying inclination passim a World Cup successful which India's run-rate during the batting powerfulness play was astatine a paltry six runs per over, with the squad heavy reliant connected the likes of Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya to supply the boost successful the backmost fractional of the innings.

That was ne'er much evident than successful the semi-final. After ambling to 2-62 astatine the halfway people of the innings, India pounded 106 runs successful its last 10 overs courtesy of a superb 63 from Pandya which came disconnected conscionable 33 deliveries. 

A superb sound from Hardik Pandya papered implicit what was a mediocre batting powerfulness play from India (Getty)

The nonaccomplishment to triumph a large planetary tourney successful much than a decennary has India astatine hazard of wasting a aureate procreation of white-ball cricketers, with the likes of Sharma and Virat Kohli accelerated moving retired of clip to adhd to their trophy cabinets.

Sharma has been 1 of the premier white-ball cricketers of his generation, but astatine 35 helium is person to the extremity of his career, and his signifier astatine the World Cup, wherever helium managed conscionable 1 people of supra 30 successful six innings (53 against the Netherlands) mightiness origin selectors to rethink India's attack moving forward.

Rishabh Pant, who has shown his quality to flip matches successful each 3 formats clip and again implicit the past 18 months, was near rotting connected the sidelines arsenic Sharma ate up balls astatine the apical of the order. He yet came successful with a fistful of deliveries left, yet sacrificing his wicket to get Pandya connected strike. Could helium beryllium a imaginable opener moving forward?

There's besides the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan and Shubman Gill waiting successful the wings. Of the 15 players India brought to Australia for the World Cup, 10 are aged 30 oregon over. At immoderate stage, they indispensable deliberation astir procreation next.

Next year's ODI World Cup connected location ungraded could beryllium Virat Kohli's past accidental to triumph different large tourney (Getty)

The presumption of Sharma's opening spouse KL Rahul besides has to beryllium successful question. Rahul fared a small amended than his skipper astatine the World Cup, hitting a brace of half-centuries, but besides failed to scope treble figures successful his different 4 innings.

The cracks successful India's apical bid were yet papered implicit by the brilliance of Kohli and Suryakumar, who were some astounding during the World Cup.

The additions of the injured brace Jasprit Bumrah, arguably the world's finest paceman successful the decease overs, and Ravindra Jadeja, possibly the astir in-form all-rounder successful the world, volition no uncertainty person helped India successful the semi-final. Could they person reversed the result? Probably not.

However, with a location ODI World Cup conscionable 12 months away, the selectors person immoderate large questions to reply if they privation to nonstop this aureate procreation disconnected successful the aforesaid mode they sent Sachin Tendulkar disconnected 11 years ago.

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