Harbhajan Singh and Sunil Gavaskar rubbished India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun’s declare that the toss was answerable for India’s early exit from the T20 World Cup. T20 World Cup: India fail to qualify for knockout stage of ICC match for 1st time since 2012 (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSHarbhajan Singh doesn’t agree with Bharat Arun that toss was a consider India’s exitHarbhajan Singh identified IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings’ instanceIndia failed to succeed in semi-finals after New Zealand beat AfghanistanVeteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh rubbished bowling coach Bharat Arun’s ‘toss excuse’ for India’s stunning exit from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, saying that the Virat Kohli-led facet did not progress to knockout levels as a result of a few unhealthy performances and nothing else.
Notably, India had been knocked out of the race to the semi-final of the continued ICC T20 World Cup within the UAE after New Zealand beat Afghanistan by eight wickets in Abu Dhabi to hitch Pakistan within the knockouts.Harbhajan identified IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings’ instance, saying regardless of batting first, the workforce went on to beat Kolkata Knight Riders within the last not too way back. Arun, on the eve of India’s last match of the T20 World Cup, listed two causes behind India’s detached efficiency on the ICC occasion, mentioning that toss and bio-bubble fatigue had been the explanations behind India’s defeats within the first two matches in opposition to Pakistan and New Zealand.”I am not trying to give any excuses but I think in this World Cup the trend has been the team that wins the toss has a big advantage especially when you are in playing in Dubai. The wicket kind of eases out when you come out to bowl the second time. These are no excuses. We should have done better, we should have batted better. In the first match, we had the chance to defend a good total, but we looked a little below par,” Bharat mentioned whereas talking within the pre-match press convention forward of the India vs Namibia match.“I heard Bharat Arun saying that had India won the toss, they could have done this and done that. All that is up for a later discussion. If you had thought that you wanted to bowl first or bat first, well didn’t Chennai Super Kings win the IPL after batting first? They did score 190, so you have to make runs. Let us accept the fact that we didn’t play well as we should have and we did not live up to expectations,” Harbhajan mentioned on Sports Tak.“If our batting had flourished as it did against Afghanistan when they scored 200 then the dew factor wouldn’t have come into play at all because the bowlers have a cushion of 30-40 runs already. So even if they were taken for a few extra runs with the wet ball, those 40 extra runs would make the difference,” Gavaskar instructed whereas talking on Sports Tak.Click right here for IndiaAt present.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.