New Delhi: India’s performance in T20 World Cup (T20 World Cup 2022) was excellent. But, Team India had to face a crushing defeat from England in the semi-finals. In the semi-final match, England defeated India by 10 wickets. After which now India’s veteran spinner R. Ashwin has made a big attack on Team India’s opener captain Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
Actually, the pair of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul could not do anything amazing in the T20 World Cup. The team could not get the support that India should have got from the opening pair. In such a situation, while talking about the semi-final defeat, India’s veteran spinner R Ashwin said on his YouTube channel, ‘Sometimes we used to lose the match in powerplay itself. We used to score 30 runs in the powerplay during the World Cup. While the opposition teams used to score 60 runs. The match used to end there in the powerplay. Many people may know these statistics but most of the T20 matches are won and lost in powerplay only.
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Team India’s opening pair captain Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul flopped badly in the entire T20 World Cup tournament. Especially in this big tournament, Rohit Sharma was constantly seen struggling with his poor form. The poor performance of India’s opening pair took a toll on the team. Now R Ashwin has also spoken on this weakness of Team India. Along with this, questions have also been raised on the opening pair.
On the other hand, looking at the form of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul in the T20 World Cup, captain Rohit Sharma played 6 matches in this World Cup, in which he scored only 116 runs at a poor average of 19.33. At the same time, KL Rahul also played 6 matches in the World Cup. Where he scored 128 runs at an average of just 21.33. Not only this, Rahul had scored only 22 runs in the first three matches. Still, he got regular chances in the team.