The performance of the Indian team has been full of ups and downs in the current T20 World Cup. While in the last World Cup, Team India won the title without losing any match, there was no consistency in its performance in the tournament being held in its own home. Even the team had to face defeat against South Africa. In such a performance of the team, while questions have been raised on the batsmen, the hard truth is that Team India has proved to be the worst in this World Cup in terms of fielding and has dropped the most catches.
In their last match of Super-8 round on Sunday 1 March. Team India faces West Indies Was happening since. This match was like a knockout for both the teams on their way to reach the semi-finals, where the winning team would get a place in the last-4. In such a situation, it was expected that on the pitch which is helpful for the batsmen of Eden Gardens, the Indian team will show its strength on every front and will not give any chance to the West Indies. But this could not happen on the fielding front.
Dropped so many catches against West Indies
In this match, Indian players gave life to West Indies, who were batting first, 4 times, out of which 3 came due to catch drop. The first catch drop came in 4.5 overs, when Abhishek Sharma dropped an easy catch of Roston Chase on the ball of Jasprit Bumrah. Chase was then on just 14 runs and was finally out after scoring 40 runs. Even after this, Abhishek dropped a catch when he dropped Rovman Powell, who was on 27 runs, on the ball of Arshdeep Singh in the 19th over. Powell returned unbeaten after scoring 34 runs.
Between these two catches, Tilak Verma also dropped a slightly difficult catch. In the 13th over, Tilak failed to catch Sharfan Rutherford on the first ball of Akshar Patel and the ball went straight for 6 runs. Rutherford’s score was only 1 run. However, Rutherford could not play a big innings and was out after scoring 14 runs. Apart from all this, in the third over of the innings, Varun Chakraborty also missed the opportunity to run out Chase, who was on 1 run at that time, by throwing the ball at the wrong end.
Highest catch drop in World Cup
With these 3 catch drops, Team India also became the worst fielding team of the tournament. In the current T20 World Cup, Indian players dropped a total of 13 catches, which is the highest among all teams in the entire tournament. Not only this, the catching efficiency of the Indian team was only 71.7 percent, which is the worst among all the 8 teams of Super-8.
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