The Indian Cricket Team rules the entire cricket world today. The Indian team has won 2 ODI and 2 T20 World Cup titles so far. Apart from this, India is the only team that has played the final match of the World Test Championship twice. This time again the Indian team seems to be at the forefront of this race. But it is also a bitter truth that the team cannot perform well all the time.
This thing is often repeated in the world of sports. In such a situation, today we are talking about the same moment when Team India had to face an embarrassing situation and the entire team lost its wickets on a modest score. Let’s take a look at this shameful performance of the Indian cricket team in all three formats.
Test Cricket
The Indian cricket team was playing a Test cricket series on the tour of Australia in 2020-21. The first Test match was played at the Adelaide ground. In this match, after taking a lead of more than 50 runs in the first innings, Team India came out to bat in the second innings and collapsed. The sharp bowling of Australia’s veteran bowlers Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood did not allow any Indian batsman to settle down at the crease.
The Indian cricket team lost 9 wickets for just 36 runs in the second innings. Mohammed Shami, who came to bat at number-10, also retired hurt and the entire team collapsed for 36 runs. In this match, no batsman of India could touch the 10-run mark.
One-Day International Cricket
The final match of Coca-Cola Champions Trophy 2000-01 was played between Team India and Sri Lanka. In this match played in Sharjah, Sri Lanka’s stormy and legendary batter Sanath Jayasuriya took the team to a score of 299 runs with the help of his explosive innings of 189 runs and gave India a target of 300 runs to win.
The Indian cricket team, which came to chase this target, had to face the devastating ball of Chaminda Vaas. One after the other, India’s great players got out. Neither Sachin Tendulkar nor Sourav Ganguly performed well in this match. The entire Indian team was all out for just 54 runs in 26.3 overs.
T20 International Cricket
In 2008-09, Team India was playing the only T20 match on the tour of Australia. In this match, the Australian bowlers troubled the batsmen of Team India a lot. Amidst the fall of wickets, Team India was all out on a score of 74 runs in 17.3 overs. In reply, Australia achieved this target by losing only 1 wicket in 11.2 overs.
