Indian Minister demands inquiry into Virat Kohli and Co's Champions Trophy final loss

[A.A.Z]

Vadodara: Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Friday demanded "inquiry" into Indian cricket team's shock defeat in the final of ICC Champions Trophy on June 18 at The Oval in London.

The RPI leader, speaking to reporters here after attending meetings with district officials, said, "India had defeated Pakistan in the earlier (league stage) match. How can such a strong team lose to its arch-rivals Pakistan in the final by 180 runs?"

There should be an inquiry into this, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice said.

Pakistan scored 338 runs after put in to bat first by Virat Kohli. While Fakhar Zaman scored a breathtaking hundred, the likes of Azhar Ali and Mohammad Hafeez chipped in with fifties before Mohammad Amir ran through the Indian top order, scalping Rohit Sharma, Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan.

 

[MenInG]

Seems like that Pakistani inquiry epidemic spreading in Asia!

 

[Blitz]

The sub-continent teams are all the same.

The Indian fans laugh (and rightly so) about our claims of match fixing and enquires and the blame game. But to be honest, that was all India in the 90s.

You can dodge the circus when you're successful. Otherwise we're all the same.

 

[Varun]

If it's of any consolation, 99.98% of India admits we lost fair and square.

But of course we'll never get the airtime the one or two bonafide rowdy apples do by making such outlandish claims.

 

[bilalmasaud]

If it's of any consolation, 99.98% of India admits we lost fair and square.

But of course we'll never get the airtime the one or two bonafide rowdy apples do by making such outlandish claims.

Don't worry Arun. this minister just proves indian and pakistani politicians are made of the same genetic fiber that bad type that is ... hopefully the indian pakistani public is also made of the same genetic fiber and that i pray and hope is the good type

 

[ExplicitAI]

Lol you lot lost because we played better cricket. There's no outside source that helped us to beat you in the CT final. Some of these guys don't understand the dynamics of sport where there's two teams and one is the winner and the other is the loser, it's never really one-sided given both Pak and India.

 

[Billy1999]

Imagine if we won in India

Would have started throwing bottles at us In fact the burn the alcohol and throw it at the players

Start burning the stadium aswell,

 

[RamLakhan]

India lost mainly because Pakistan peaked at the right time (any other team against them in finals would have been the same result - one sided match even if Australia met them. Such was the team form!)

But having said that one should not forget that Pakistan lost the first match to India (as expected! In an expected way and almost with similar margin as they won in finals!) India was the only team who could beat them like that (South Africa and Sri Lanka ran them close because of the kind of pitch! On flat pitch Pakistan would have beaten them with big margins as they did against England & India! Flat pitches are like that, if one team is in better form/play smarter than the other, then it will result in big margin victories!)

Indian minister should be happy for India's performance (reaching finals) in spite of Coach/Captain debacle, Kohli relatively new to LOI captaincy, players coming back after injuries, aging players, etc.

This was instinctive and momentarily brilliance from Pakistan (as they did in 1992 where teams like Australia, South Africa, England, West Indies were much stronger compared to today's average teams! Also Pakistan were much luckier that time, but still they had a good side to seal the moments! But in this CT they displayed more skills & won on merit!)

Pakistan team will be tested in bilaterals. India is not going to play them, so nothing can be found out! (After the rise of India and decline of Pakistan in last 1 to 1.5 decades, we haven't played each other to find out some interesting thing! Because between these two teams the "overseas condition" factor is not existent)

Regarding match-fixing, nobody knows about it (even if something is investigated and found out! You will never know the realities, even GOD perhaps doesn't know about it!) We as common people/audience it is better to treat "match-fixing" also as part of the game/cricket, a kind of "player" on itself and just enjoy the game (even if the game is fixed, it still has to be played!) You just can't keep worrying about it, because you can't stop players from playing cricket neither you can stop watching cricket!

 

[Runner Up]

And they call us Conspiracy theorist

 

[Abdullah719]

India's turn to form committees.

 

[Syed1]

India lost mainly because Pakistan peaked at the right time (any other team against them in finals would have been the same result - one sided match even if Australia met them. Such was the team form!)

But having said that one should not forget that Pakistan lost the first match to India (as expected! In an expected way and almost with similar margin as they won in finals!) India was the only team who could beat them like that (South Africa and Sri Lanka ran them close because of the kind of pitch! On flat pitch Pakistan would have beaten them with big margins as they did against England & India! Flat pitches are like that, if one team is in better form/play smarter than the other, then it will result in big margin victories!)

Indian minister should be happy for India's performance (reaching finals) in spite of Coach/Captain debacle, Kohli relatively new to LOI captaincy, players coming back after injuries, aging players, etc.

This was instinctive and momentarily brilliance from Pakistan (as they did in 1992 where teams like Australia, South Africa, England, West Indies were much stronger compared to today's average teams! Also Pakistan were much luckier that time, but still they had a good side to seal the moments! But in this CT they displayed more skills & won on merit!)

Pakistan team will be tested in bilaterals. India is not going to play them, so nothing can be found out! (After the rise of India and decline of Pakistan in last 1 to 1.5 decades, we haven't played each other to find out some interesting thing! Because between these two teams the "overseas condition" factor is not existent)

Regarding match-fixing, nobody knows about it (even if something is investigated and found out! You will never know the realities, even GOD perhaps doesn't know about it!) We as common people/audience it is better to treat "match-fixing" also as part of the game/cricket, a kind of "player" on itself and just enjoy the game (even if the game is fixed, it still has to be played!) You just can't keep worrying about it, because you can't stop players from playing cricket neither you can stop watching cricket!

Actually India reached the final and was the form team in the tournament despite Kohli's captaincy rather than because of it. Kohli always loses his cool whenever the going gets tough and hands over the reigns to Dhoni. It was seen in the final as well, Kohli posted himself at long on/off and Dhoni was doing the field placements and bowling changes. That is not a good sign for the future. Give any another captain the same juggernaut of a batting lineup and efficient bowling lineup and he will reach the finals 9 times out of 10.

In the final he made a few MASSIVE blunders that were directly responsible for the defeat. Namely allowing Pakistan to bat first on a flat pitch in a high pressure game. If Pakistan was chasing even a score of 220 would have been beyond our reach because of the pressure situation. Second major blunder was to play two spinners against a team like Pakistan who are one of the best at playing spin in the world. Pakistan has the third highest SR against spin after England and India since the 2015 WC (the margin between Ind/Pak is minimal as well). Lastly he did not play Umesh Yadav who picked up three wickets against us in the group stages.

 

[msb314]

I never hear Australia/England/NZ forming such committees and doing dramaybaazi- why only India and Pakistan do such things?

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Laughable statement.It's just a game,teams win but they also lose.The tide can turn very quickly

For example Zimababwe were beaten by the Netherlands 2 weeks ago,yet they won yesterday chasing down the highest score ever against SL in SL.

Pakistan was beaten emphatically by India in the group stage,but they picked up form and demolished India in the final.

 

[Sherlock]

India-Pakistan Champions Trophy final was fixed and we demand an inquiry, says Union Minister Ramdas Athawale

Union Minister also said that there should be a 25 per cent reservation for Dalits and Tribals in cricket and other games. (Source: File)

Union minister Ramdas Athawale expressed his views on the ICC Champions Trophy final between India and Pakistan, saying, it appeared “fixed” and wants the matter to be investigated. “How could the cricketers, who played so well in the entire tournament, did not perform in the final match (in London on June 18)? It appears that the match was fixed and we demand an inquiry into it” the Republic Party of India (A) leader said.

India had an impressive tournament till the final of the ICC Champions Trophy as they started off the campaign by thrashing Pakistan by 124 runs and also defeated South Africa and Bangladesh comprehensively to reach the final of the Champions Trophy. But in the final, India looked to be on back foot during the entire match as Pakistan scored a massive 338-runs and in reply, India were bowled out for mere 158 runs, losing by 180 runs.

The Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment also said that there should be a 25 per cent reservation for Dalits and tribals in cricket and other games as well, as he feels that these sections have never been recognised in sports.

“Those who did not perform should be rested and eligible cricketers from the Dalit community should be given a chance in the team,” he said, adding the RPI(A) demands 25 per cent reservation in cricket and other sports for Dalits and Tribals.

http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/india-pakistan-champions-trophy-final-fixed-inquiry-ramdas-athawale-4730871/​

 

[English August]

This minister needs to give it a rest. The second part of his statement worries me even more. India shouldn't do what RSA is doing in terms of quotas.

 

[PakLFC]

Cricket now has a reputation of every big match being fixed. These allegations seem to be based on Kohli apparently signalling to Amir where to bowl so he can edge it that was dropped An edge can never be planned for goodness sake.

 

[TNAmarkFromIndia]

Ramdas Athawale stays in the news more for his ridiculous sense of fashion than anything else.

 

[srh]

What if the Indian minister is right and we are all wrong? The betting odds were highly in favour of India and whoever put money on Pakistan win, directly or indirectly, made lot of money.

 

[Sherlock]

What if the Indian minister is right and we are all wrong? The betting odds were highly in favour of India and whoever put money on Pakistan win, directly or indirectly, made lot of money.

Yeah, that's how betting work

 

[Markhor]

Don't worry Indian brothers, we are willing to send the Master of the Committee Inti Alam to get to the bottom of this.

He'll set up a committee which will in turn set up a sub-committee to submit a report on the match, with a subcommittee monitoring the implementation of the report and one big committee to oversee all the other committees.

Then the Chairman resigns with a change of government and he'll demand a committee to investigate why all these committees have been formed in the first place.

At least that's the Pakistani experience.

 

[Railu Katta]

Another inquiry coming for today's choke against West Indies B team )

 

[The Googly]

I am actually coming to the following conclusion now :

The Indian cricket team are MAYBE not as good as people think.


1. Heavily reliant on top 3 in the batting.
2. Dhoni and Yuvraj are finished.
3. Ashwin and Jadeja are ineffective abroad or on flat tracks.
4. Indian pace attack is not as good as Pakistan, England, Aus, Saffers, Kiwis. In fact :

WI : Holder, Joseph, Roach, Taylor, Gabriel
Ind : Bhuvi, Bumrah, Yadav, Shammi, Ishant

Is there much between the above 2 attacks?

Joint India/Pakistan ODI side:

Dhawan
Rohit
Kohli
Babar
Fakhar
Sarfraz
Pandya
Shadab/Ashwin/Jadeja : can pick any
Amir
Hassan
Bhuvi

That's 5 or 6 Pakistanis in the side and I have tried to be 100% impartial.

I think India playing at home so much has given an over inflated rating of their true talent.

 

[Mainul]

So,there are some imbecile ministers in India also.2