Know the five big reasons for the defeat of the Indian team, yet the team will get so many crores

New Delhi (Best Hindu News)- The Indian cricket team could not end the drought of winning the ICC trophy. India were defeated by Australia in the final of the ICC World Test Championship on Sunday. India has not won any ICC trophy since 2013. This time he had a chance to end this drought but it could not happen. Australia broke India’s dream. Australia won this match by 209 runs. Team India looked breathless in front of Australia in this match and on most of the occasions Australia dominated India.

Despite the humiliating defeat in the final, India will get Rs 6.5 crore. While the champion team i.e. Australia will get double the amount as compared to India. Australia was the champion of WTC Final 2023 and will get the maximum amount of Rs 13.2 crore as prize money. ICC will distribute 31, 39, 42, 700 rupees among 9 teams. Third place South Africa will get Rs 3,71,78,325, England Rs 2,89,16,475, Sri Lanka Rs 1,65,23,700. While New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh will all get close to Rs 82 lakh each.

Five big reasons for India’s defeat

Travis Head’s blazing century
On the first day of the final match, when Indian captain Rohit Sharma decided to bowl first after winning the toss, it was questioned by many cricket critics. The pitch at The Oval may have looked green but the bright sunshine in the sky indicated good conditions for batting and they proved to be true when Travis Head scored a brilliant century on the first day. Head scored his fifth Test century and shared a 285-run partnership with Steve Smith for the fourth wicket. Australia scored 469 runs in the first innings with the help of Head’s innings of 163 runs for 174 runs. Head’s century created the biggest difference between India and Australia and eventually led to Australia’s victory. Head got the title of player of the match.

India’s top order flopped once again
Batting against Australia’s mammoth score, Team India was expecting big scores from its top four batsmen but it could not happen in both the innings. Rohit Sharma scored 15 runs in the first innings and when he was in good form scoring 43 runs in the second innings, Rohit was dismissed trying to play a sweep shot against Lyon. Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli was also dismissed after scoring just 14 runs in the first innings and while chasing the target in the second innings, he was caught out for 49 runs.

The Indian team had the highest hopes from Cheteshwar Pujara, who was playing county cricket in England for the last two months, but Pujara was dismissed after scoring 14 runs in the first innings and 27 runs in the second. India’s young opener Shubman Gill was a bit unlucky as Scott Boland didn’t even give him a chance to blink in the first innings and was bowled for 13 runs. In the second innings, Gill was caught by Cameron Green in Boland’s own over, although there was a lot of debate about this catch, but in the end, Gill had to return to the pavilion after scoring 18 runs.

Brilliant bowling from Scott Boland
Before the start of the Test Championship final, the name of one player was being discussed the most and that name was Scott Boland. The 34-year-old Boland may have delayed his Test debut but has made a mark in international cricket in a short span of time with his impressive bowling. Boland’s ability to consistently bowl at the line of fourth-fifth stump makes him dangerous, his consistency being his biggest strength. And this was proved in the match against India where Boland took five wickets. In the first innings, Boland took the wickets of Gill and Shrikar Bharat, but he showed the real magic in the second innings when Boland got the wickets of Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja along with Gill.

great fielding from australia
Along with bowling and batting, the Australian team did amazing fielding in the Test Championship final. This is known from the fact that Australia took 13 out of 20 wickets with the help of catch out dismissal. Most of the catches were in the slip cordon behind wicketkeeper Alex Carey along with Cameron Green and Steve Smith. Smith took 3, Green took 2 and Carey took a total of 6 catches.

When Rohit Sharma announced the playing XI for the final match, the most surprising decision was the exclusion of senior spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Usually in English conditions every team gives priority to fast bowlers but for the Indian team their spin bowlers have been their biggest strength. And it was not as if the conditions at The Oval were unhelpful for spin at all. Australian spinner Nathan Lyon took a four-wicket haul on the same pitch.