2 days Ago By Mid-day
It ought to have been a day of celebration, a day when the events of the past few hours would finally begin to sink in. A day of introspection and sustained high-fives. After all, the day after a World Cup triumph doesn’t come around too often.
Instead, Sunday was a day of frustration for India’s cricketers, still basking in their spectacular get-out-of-jail seven-run conquest of South Africa in the final of the . ADVERTISEMENT As Bridgetown and the southeastern Caribbean island of Barbados, literally battened down the hatches in anticipation of Hurricane Beryl, Rohit Sharma and his men endured the uncertainty of when they would be given the all-clear to fly back home to soak in the affection, adulation and adoration of their millions of fans. India’s cricketers aren’t used to uncertainty.
Treacherous pitches They weren’t, for four weeks and eight matches, on treacherous pitches in New York and better batting surfaces in the Caribbean. Against potential banana skins Ireland and United States, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, and more familiar foes including Pakistan, Australia, England and South Africa. They were sure of their approach, of their game plan, of their strategies, of their own strengths, of what they were capable of doing.
They were sure of the fact that if they played to their full potential, no one would be able to prevent them keeping their tryst with destiny. T20 World Cup 2024 | Hardik Pandya: The man who stayed under the headlines! There have been misc.
