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India's Triumph At Barbados Richly Deserving Reward For Changing Their T20I Outlook
T20 World Cup: In the run-up to the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, despite some people being very bullish about India going all the way in the tournament, many didn’t share the same optimism they had.
Granted, the team was literally more or less the same from the side playing in the 2022 edition, where their dated approach of playing T20 cricket led to them being handed a ten-wicket thrashing by England in the semifinals at Adelaide. Add to it, the last year’s ODI World Cup final heartbreak at Ahmedabad made many fear whether India had it in them to go past the last hurdle in future.
Moreover, when the stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli came back to play T20Is against Afghanistan in January this year after the 2022 Adelaide semifinal, it was met with a sense of whether India would go back to playing conservatively in T20Is all over again on slow and low conditions of the West Indies, as well as on the unknown strips of the USA.
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