Dreams of team India winning the T20 world cup for the second time shattered after the Kohli led team faced a humiliating loss in their match against New Zealand. Cricket experts, fans, former cricketers and many others has been expressing their displeasure over the team which was expected to win the tournament. Along with many, Tamil cinema’s leading actor and politician Sarath Kumar came up with a tweet criticizing the performance of Indian team.

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India was put to bat by New Zealand after winning the toss. KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan opened for team India and Rohit Sharma came in as a one down batsman. None of these top order batsmen including Kohli and Pant played with 100 plus strike rate. As a result, the team was able to score just 110 runs in the 20 overs.

New Zealand effortlessly chased down the score in 14.3 overs and Sodhi was named as Man of the match for his bowling performance. “To be brutal upfront, I don’t think we were brave enough with bat/ball. We obviously didn’t have much to play with the ball. We were just not brave enough in our body language when we entered the field and NZ had better intensity, body language. Every time we took a chance, we lost a wicket. It’s most often a result of hesitation of whether you should go for a shot or not” Captain Virat Kohli said in the post match presentation.

Actor Sarath kumar who is known as a ardent follower of Indian team’s cricket, came up with a tweet expressing his disappointment over the team. He who identifies himself as a keen sports enthusiast through his Twitter bio, said that it was an irresponsible performance from the team.He also wanted the team to walk out before getting humiliated to teams such as Namibia, Scotland and Afghanistan. Pointing out that other teams are playing for their country, Sarath said that the boys of India only deserve to play IPL and criticized the way they understood t20 game.

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“Substandard Shameful irresponsible performance of our team, they should pull out before we get humiliated by Namibia,Scotland and Afghanistan, others are playing for their country and seem to have studied T 20 game better,let our boys play IPL #T20WorldCup21 #IndiaVsNewZealand” read his tweet.

Check out his tweet below :

Substandard Shameful irresponsible performance of our team, they should pull out before we get humiliated by Namibia,Scotland and Afghanistan, others are playing for their country and seem to have studied T 20 game better,let our boys play IPL #T20WorldCup21 #IndiaVsNewZealand

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021

The actor cum politician also replied to those who confronted his views which evidently showed that Sarath is extremely frustrated. He said that the team should perform better and fans got the right to criticize as they are emotionally connected with the team.

Check out some of his replies below :

IPL is not representing a country itis totally different when you play for the country,you should know to handle adopt and play and cut loose the pressure that exists

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021

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When our sentiments are involved as a nation and a true Indian it hurts,let it hurt them and let them perform better,

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021

If the team gets motivated by criticism and plays well we all will be proud,criticism is to be taken well for growth

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021

Will selectors allow public opinion yo select a team,there is a lot of difference between IPL and World Cup

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021

I think we should adapt a different approach of attacking from the beginning and every player will go for runs, this could help

— R Sarath Kumar (@realsarathkumar) October 31, 2021