Lol, It's not luck.
Wasn't the same team.
Pakistan cricket has been in decline for more than a decade now. CT17 was just pure luck and the stars aligned. Such things happen in sports Greece in Euro 04, Brawn GP in 09 in Formula 1 but the fundamental problems persist.
Naw he did way worse.
I am still amazed how that guy gave that performance, seems like a complete laddu bowler to me and he proved me wrong again in the last 50 over WC.
As a fan would you have rather had the anomaly or the other results?
One match to troll fellow Indians at any time is priceless
1983 was definitely a fluke. Nobody expected it to happen. 1 year later West Indies toured India & just steamrollered them
There is nothing called " luck favours the brave "
Definitely hurts but beating Australia in Australia is adequate compensation
It doesn't matter. India has won ICC trophies before anybody else except Windies. Winning ICC tournament is icing on the cake. Not the cake itself. West Indies/Srilanka both won a tournament after 2013. WI did not even qualify for world cup 2023 and world T20 2022. WI sure would prefer a consistently performing team rather than winning an one off tournament.
Took last decade into perspective. That anomaly did result in silverware true but its still a fluke. A lucky fluke in other words
It's probably the only loss that hurt me since Sachin's retirement. My perspective on cricket has greatly changed in the last 10-11 years. Loses don't hurt me anymore.
Bro no offence india were dropped 8+ times in WC semis mohali and even in newyork 3 catches off amir alone were dropped
Good captaincy and coaching goes along way.
It hardly matters. If in New York the target was 100, Pakistan wud have still fallen short by 5 runs. If India made 90 - Pakistan wud have folded up for 85
You're going into hypotheticals and what ifs just saying.
Pakistan's strategy was to take the game into the last over. Pretty sure they wud have done the same if the target was 100 or 90. That was their undoing.
That is based on probability not facts
Pakistan lost 10 games out 11 consecutive games with 1 No Result before the 2019 World Cup.
People have called that win a fluke hopefully you correct them as well.
Unfortunately true people are forgetting that success went to his head, but to play devil’s advocate atleast he had success unlike the current lot.
Big words from you, you have consistently mocked India for not winning silverware since 2013 but not want to take stats back before 2013?
Acually India beat West Indies 3 out of 4 times . Once in West Indies before world cup. Twice in world cup. 3-1 India. West Indies became disconsolate after that loss. They came to India with vengence. The kind of Indian tracks suited West Indies more as they could take the pitch out of the equation. india just had Kapil Dev to offer. others were trundlers.
Also India again won in 1985.. that was equivalent of CT then
It is literally counted as one of the greatest upsets in sporting History. Everything just clicked for India when it needed most and Kapil's miracle. BUT.....
I had lesson on it in 9th grade inn Chennai from some English journalist how he left in first half and couldn’t believe what happened in second half.
The conditions suited India's 120 kph trundlers perfectly. More than West Indies' fearsome pace brigade
Even the 2003 game, Razzaq dropped Tendulkar's dolly otherwise India would have been 55-3.
Having seen so many upsets over the years we make sense of what happened that day. In certain conditions you can beat even the mighy team. There was one rubbish spinner named Bob Holland took 10 wickets against West Indies and spun Australia to victory at the SCG. It is similar to how India imploded against sub standard spinners from Australia after making it overly spin friendly. I remember Amir sohail venting anger after Ireland beating Pakistan in 2007 in the commentary box. Bishop became totally silent. AMir was going "Do you think West Indies would have got a spicy pitch against ireland like Pakistan got" lol
Too many ifs & buts
Hey, you were the one who started with all these 'ifs' and 'buts.' You said CT17 was a fluke and brought up scenarios like 'if Kohli chose to bat first' and 'the no-ball incident.' And even mentioned perera dropping a dolly.
Since Khan left we have had 2 chairmen about 3 coaches and had the captain changed and then brought back under the current chairman but yes let's pretend this is on him.
The Imran fan boys will continue to remain in the dream world. Imran's cricket related policies and interferences messed up a very good T20 team. PCB has now become a joke and he gets the fair share of blame for that.
SA winning the inaugural knock out format. They are never meant to win any trophy
