World Cup final: Gautam Gambhir was not pleased with Rahul’s batting

India lost to Australia by six wickets in the World Cup final on Sunday, ending their hopes of winning a third championship. Guests India entered the game as the favourites, not just because they had won all of their matches in the competition but also because they had seldom faced any opposition, including Australia in the first encounter between the two teams.

Australia upset India in the final, even though they had lost the previous game by six wickets.

India had scored more than 350 in three of their previous four games prior to the final; their only other loss came against South Africa. In one game, they had scored 326 and won by an astounding 243 runs. Nevertheless, Australia managed to chase it down in 43 overs after they were bowled out for just 240 runs in 50 overs during the final. India managed to smash just four fours and no sixes for the remainder of their innings, after having scored 80 runs in the opening ten overs. Gautam Gambhir, a former batter, stated that India would have performed better if India had tried hitting more boundaries with someone taking more risks in the middle overs.

It has two sharp edges. However, I’ve always maintained that the World Cup will be won by the team with the greatest bravery. While I recognize that forming a partnership takes time, 11 to 40 overs is an extremely long period. That risk ought to have been taken by someone,” Gambhir said to Sportskeeda.

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We can either go for 150 all out or end up with 300: Gambhir said

Gautam Gambhir acknowledged that India might have settled for a lower total if they had continued to be aggressive, but they still need to have made an effort to score more quickly. The former opener, who helped India win the 2011 World Cup final with a score of 97, claimed that reaching 240 should never have been an obstacle.

Despite playing 109 balls together and putting up a strong fourth-wicket partnership, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli could only muster 67 runs. Even though Kohli did not hit many boundaries, he still had a good strike rate, but after he fell on 54 off 63, it was even harder for India to score.

According to Gautam Gambhir, Kohli was tasked with leading the innings and performed admirably throughout the competition. It would have been better for other hitters to try to play aggressively around him. Rahul, on the other hand, managed to score a mere 66 in 107 balls.

“Kohli has been helpful in stabilizing the innings, but everyone else ought to have been more aggressive. KL ought should have left. What damage could it have done? All of us would have been 150.. But had we been brave, we could scored 310 and India would have been world champions. This is not the 1990s. 240 is not a good score at all. You need 300-plus totals. India were not brave enough,” said Gambhir.

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