Wounds also have their own nature. Some wounds heal quickly and some do not heal for a long time. The wound that Team India has received is not going to heal easily. If you ask what has the Indian cricket team lost in the year 2023, then the answer will be the same, due to which it got this wound. And, which has a connection with the defeat in the ODI World Cup final this year. There is no doubt that the Indian team has displayed better cricket throughout the year, but when the time came to control the world, the game went bad. Cricket fans are already talking. Thinking about that moment, Indian cricketers would also be asking themselves that what was the benefit of playing better cricket throughout the year, when they did not become world champions.
Team India had reached the finals by remaining unbeaten in the ICC ODI World Cup. Everyone felt that the way Indians were playing, they would take away the World Cup trophy. The fear of Indian players was visible even in the most successful team in the history of the tournament like Australia. But, in the final, India could not maintain the charismatic performance that it had been doing throughout the tournament. The result was that the path was cleared for Australia to become world champion once again.
Team India got this wound in the year 2023!
It was not easy to bear the pain of this big defeat and this was clearly visible on the faces of the Indian players. This pain was even more painful especially for those players, in whose career this might be the last World Cup. We are talking about those players who are at that stage of age where it is no longer possible for them to play in the next World Cup. Not only age, fitness is also a big factor here.
This should not become a lifelong pain for these players!
The biggest name among such players is that of captain Rohit Sharma, who had a golden opportunity to make India the world champion this time under his captaincy. But now they will regret not being able to do so. It is difficult to say whether Virat will also be seen in the next ODI World Cup or not. However, he was a part of Team India that won the World Cup in 2011.
Apart from these, whether Shami and Bumrah will play or not will depend on how fit they are. Because both of them have been continuously battling injuries. If Ravindra Jadeja keeps playing, will he be able to make his place in the World Cup team again? It is clear that amidst the questions of if-but, the pain of the injury received in the 2023 World Cup may remain for these players for life.
