Former India cricketer Venkatesh Prasad, who is very vocal about his opinions on social media, took to Twitter to criticize team India's recent performance in white-ball cricket for the past few years. He also compared the present India squad to the dominant Australia of 2000s and the current England squad. The Indian team management decided to rest senior batters Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for 2nd ODI against West Indies.
The visitors lost the match by 6 wickets as it was below-performance from Rohit Sharma & Co., who were bundled out for mere 181 runs. Less than 100 days are left for ODI World Cup 2023 and due to injury crisis, team India is still finding the right batting combinations for the mega ICC event.
Ex-India pacer Venkatesh Prasad slammed team India for being 'ordinary in other two formats' keeping Test format aside.
"Test cricket aside, India has been very ordinary in the other two formats for quite sometime now. Lost odi series against ban, SA and Aus. Poor in the last two T20 World Cups. Neither are we an exciting team like England nor brutal like how the Aussies used to be," Prasad tweeted.
“Despite the money and power, we have become used to celebrating mediocrity and are far from how champion sides are. Every team plays to win and so does India but their approach and attitude is also a factor for underperformance over a period of time," he added.
Asked to bat first, India were bowled out for 181 runs. In reply, Shai Hope (63 not out) and Keacy Carty (48 not out) put together 91 runs (118b) for the fourth wicket to help West Indies chase down the target with 80 balls to spare.