IND vs AUS: Following India’s shameful loss to Australia in the WTC Finals, Rohit Sharma has been slammed by former cricketers and pundits. The India skipper suggested that 3 match finals should be done to decide on the winner in place of just 1 game. To this, Sunil Gavaskar and Harbhajan Singh has go on to slam the India team captain.
Following the match India skipper Rohit Sharma made a wild claim saying the WTC should be a 3-match series. “I would like to play the 3-Test match series for the WTC Final. We worked hard and we fought, but we played just 1 game. I think a 3-match series would be ideal in the next WTC cycle,” said Rohit Sharma.
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Now Rohit’s statements were not taken easily by Sunil Gavaskar as he responded harshly.
“No. This has been decided for a long time, you know even before you enter that first match of the cycle that the final is going to be just one-off. So, you have to be prepared mentally,” Gavaskar said on India Today.
“Just like you prepare for the IPL, you don’t say best of three. Everybody can have a bad day, or a couple of days, but before the first ball of the cycle you know what it is. So, you can’t be asking for a best of three. Tomorrow, you may say best of five,” he further added.
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Harbhajan too retorted on the matter as he asked a rhetoric question would the same rules be applied in the ODI World Cups
“I want to ask what will happen in 50-over World Cups. Do you want 3 finals there as well? If it was New Zealand vs England, would you say the same thing? No, you wouldn’t. You’ll say no, one final is enough. So, 50-over World Cup – 1 final, Test Championship – 1 final. Biggest events of tennis and football World Cup have 1 final,” Harbhajan told Sports Today.
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