As we know, India had their shocking elimination from World Cup 2019 after getting defeated by New Zealand yesterday by 18 runs which stopped them from getting into the Finale Match. Our Indian Team which was a nightmare for every opponent team including the best team Australia and the only team that defeated India in Semi-Final qualifying match that England had their biggest defeat in this World Cup tournament. From the 1st position, India directly got out of World Cup becoming the 1st team to be eliminated from the Semi-Finals. Wonder where our Team Blue went wrong?
Team India before the Semi Finals had the most wins in the Semi-Final qualifying matches winning 7 out of 9 matches out of which 1 with New Zealand was cancelled due to rain with them getting defeated only by England. Team Blue were impressively making their way to the top of the point table slowly and steadily with them finally coming on 1st position after Australia lost their 1st position after getting defeated by South Africa and India defeating Sri Lanka. But sadly, Team Blue came crashing down from the 1st position by getting defeated by New Zealand. What could have caused their shocking defeat? Was it the overconfidence of Team Blue for winning most matches and getting to the 1st position or their bad luck? Was it Team Blue underestimating Kiwis or them being under great pressure to win the match? Whatever the reason is Team Blue must be having a hard time dealing with their loss. On the other hand Kiwis are surely enjoying their biggest victory by defeating India.
On 9th July, Team Blue were doing great in bowling and fielding giving tough time to the Kiwis. Team Blue may have won the match if the rain did not interrupted causing it to continue on the next day. On 10th July, the Kiwis played better in the few overs of theirs that was left giving Team Blue the target of 240 runs though they lost 8 wickets. Team Blue in their turn of batting had such a bad start with best players like KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli getting out which became the downfall of Team Blue. After that Rishabh Pant and Hardika Pandya tried to improve the scores for their team but it was short lived as they too got out. Ravindra Jadega and MS Dhoni played the best and got the most respect but still they could not save their team from getting defeated. Soon Team Blue got all out not even with them being 3 balls away from completing their 50 overs. Team Blue still managed to make 221 runs making New Zealand defeat them by 18 runs. The way Team India got defeated in such an important after playing so well in their previous matches shows that they underestimated Team New Zealand taking too lightly while Team New Zealand had one entire day to make strategy and proper planning on how to play carefully and work on defeating a stronger team like India. The entire nation may still not come out of shock at such a shocking and heartbreaking defeat of their country.
Team Blue has surely learnt a lesson that never to underestimate any opponent no matter how low in their position as them being on 1st position on point table got defeated by New Zealand who were on the 4th position. I am sure that the other 2 Semi-Finalists Australia and England were expecting India to win this match and them already preparing on how to defeat them in the Finale Match but to their shock its New Zealand who won. These 2 teams too may have not expected New Zealand to defeat a stronger team like India who got on the 1st position before the Semi-Finals. Now Australia too may be careful in not to underestimate England and play carefully in their Semi-Finals today. This World Cup tournament is getting so unpredictable that its hard to think which country will win the World Cup 2019. I hope Team India analyses where they went wrong yesterday and work more hard for future matches. No matter our Team Blue lost this match but they surely played the best in this tournament and won respect from all over the India and the world.
