Things are not going as smoothly for the Indian cricket team as they had hoped for. With the hopes of a billion people on their shoulders, the team underperformed in the recently concluded Asia Cup 2022. The sectors however showed confidence in the same squad and sent the same group of players to Australia for the 20-20 World Cup.
Fans hoped that the team would come with a win or at least go deep into the tournament. Early signs however do not impart much confidence among the followers. The team faced early setbacks with the ruling out of Ravindra Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah, and Deepak Chahar from the World Cup.
Now, in another, India has lost their second practice match against Western Australia by 36 runs. The game started off with Western Australia coming onto bat first and setting up a target. Although one opener Josh Philippe (8) could not do much, the other D’Arcy Short (52) came up with a solid opening knock against India. Number three batter Nick Hobson also smashed 64 off 41 with five fours and four sixes to take Indian bowlers to the cleaners.
India did a comeback from then on and restricted the Western Australia side to just 168/8 in 20 overs. R Ashwin emerged as the best bowler from the Indian side having taken three wickets. Harshal Patel meanwhile took two.
Coming on to chase what was an achievable target in this modern-day cricket, India got off to a poor start. Rishabh Pant who came to open the innings departed at just nine runs, leaving the team in limbo again. KL Rahul held the wicket from one end and continued playing at an unimpressive rate. Although he did score 74 runs, it was achieved in 55 balls which is nothing to write home about.
None of the other batters could come up with a match-winning performance and India could only manage 132/8 on the board in 20 overs. Twitter was understandably shocked and infuriated with India’s loss against a club team.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to India’s loss against Western Australia in the second practice match.
India have lost the practice match against Western Australia by 36 runs. ?#KLRahul pic.twitter.com/RMaMyzxvMB
— Farid ¹? ?? (@KohliStaan18) October 13, 2022
Team India lost practice match as Western Australia beat India by 36 runs. Poor batting.
— Avinash Aryan (@AvinashArya09) October 13, 2022
Ye lo!! Ab India practice match bhi haarne lage?36 runs se? Aur ye team world cup jeetegi??? #T20WC2022
— Gyaani-Cricketer ?? (@GyaaniCricketer) October 13, 2022
India can't even beat Australia Domestic team. Shame on India, another example why Virat Kohli is so important for India, Virat Kohli is main guy.#INDvsAS #Cricket
— Viratxians (@Viratxians) October 13, 2022
Western Australia club team beat India national team by 36 runs in a T20 match in Australia as a tribute to India's 36 allout against Australia in Australia. Team 36 ? #Cricket
— Atik Aslam (@jayedatik) October 13, 2022
Western Australia Club Team beat India by 36 runs in the Warm-up match.??? #cricket pic.twitter.com/xwDqS0fpPc
— Syed Jalal Haider (@Jalal_haider003) October 13, 2022
India should stop playing cricket for some time. This team is an absolute disaster. Can’t even win practice games. Selection committee is the absolute worst. So is Rahul-Rohit combination. Constantly guilty of wrong selection. Calling this team a disgrace is an understatement..!!
— Parth Shah (@truetruth19) October 13, 2022
Poor batting display by #India as they lose to #WesternAustralia by 36 runs. They could score only 133/7 in the allotted 20 overs. #WarmUpMatch #westernaustralia #cricketlovers #cricket #IndianCricketTeam
— Satish Iyer (@IyerSatishBala) October 13, 2022
1 of the worst things to happen to Indian cricket = KL Rahul. He will torch power plays and entire middle order to make sure he gets his personal milestone. Has done the same with 2 IPL teams, selfish player selfish runs &India deserves better #IND #CricketTwitter https://t.co/zW0J7Tsj7w
— AAD!3 (@1_3Aadz) October 13, 2022
