File photograph of Sunil Gavaskar.© PTI
India’s hopes of profitable a 3rd World Cup title and ending a 12-year drought for an ICC trophy got here to a tame finish final week as Australia defeated the Rohit Sharma-led facet by six wickets within the closing. India’s dominance all through the match, the place they received 10 video games on the trot, together with a 70-run win over New Zealand within the semi-final, got here to an finish within the closing, due to good bowling and fielding exploits from the Australians.
India’s highway to the World Cup closing was additionally overshadowed by a “pitch swapping” controversy after studies had claimed that ICC head curator had accused the BCCI for altering the observe for the semi-final in opposition to the Kiwis.
Nevertheless, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has labelled the accusations as “fairly irrelevant”.
“The accusation of BCCI interference within the choice of the pitches for India matches once more was fairly irrelevant, because the ICC pitch advisor was round, and solely after the ICC gave its approval was the match performed on the pitch,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.
Gavaskar added that the controversy was put to mattress within the semi-final itself when pacer Mohammed Shami bagged seven wickets on a pitch deemed useful for spinners.
“Nothing within the taking part in circumstances say that for the knockout video games, a contemporary pitch had for use, so simply because India’s matches had been performed on beforehand used pitches did not imply there was any hanky-panky. That was confirmed conclusively within the semifinals, the place the allegation of a dry pitch to go well with the Indian spinners was made, however greater than 725 runs had been scored, and a quick bowler took seven wickets for India,” he added.
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