Hindsight is almost always perfect vision. But when a team considered to be one of the superpowers of world cricket crumbles in yet another ICC final, it calls for assessment and analysis, no matter how harsh it might sound or read. Some things need to be said.
Since the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy title win, India have played eight semi-finals and finals combined in ICC tournaments and lost all eight. It's more than a pattern now. It's more than a red flag.
To say that Team India played poor cricket in the WTC Final would be an understatement. They were comprehensively outplayed by a better team in every department. And in many ways the writing was on the wall right from Day 1, where India won the toss but lost pretty much everything after that. Australia ended the opening day at 327/3 and continued to dominate proceedings. India were left to play catch up.
