Rahul’s knock in 2023 vs Yuvi’s knock in 2014 vs Dhoni’s knock in 2019

[maniac]

Yuvi gets benefit of doubt and sympathy votes for beating cancer and making a comeback so I am going with Rahul here.

 

2nd place is MSD. I know people are going to let me have it for mentioning Dhoni and give me coulda woulda shoulda and he could have won  it theory but what a phattu innings that was. First hiding behind others unlike in 2011 where he claims to take the initiative and then once conditons got easy still doing the dumb take it deep crap. Not the culprit but terrible innings.

 

tough to decide because Yuvi screwed it up against SL. 2014,2016,2017 hurt more because it was weaker  teams like SL, WI and Pak
 

Aus, Nzl you can somewhat understand

 

However KL Rahul is a winner for me here. Just sucked out the momentum I feel.

[Ajju]

Dhoni. Little bit of initiative at early then we could have won that match.

[Serpico]

Rahul's innings yesterday is in another league, can be compared with Gavaskars legendary knock in the first world cup.

 

However msd's was more frustrating because we were so close to winning

Edited November 20, 2023 by Serpico

[maniac]

Also just to add Yuvraj-nearing retirement and beating cancer

 

Dhoni: nearly retired 

 

Rahul was in (supposed to be atleast) peak fit and in form

 

Ps: his keeping let me down but still something there :) 

[Ultimate_Game]

Yuvraj's was the worst. In other cases we had lost wickets and there was pressure not to lose any more wickets. But Yuvraj played that innings when we had 8 wkts in hand, including an in form Raina! Plus it was T20. He should've thrown his bat around or retired. That was a much worse performance than the others, and had no justification at all.

[maniac]

Just now, Ultimate_Game said:

Yuvraj's was the worst. In other cases we had lost wickets and there was pressure not to lose any more wickets. But Yuvraj played that innings when we had 8 wkts in hand, including an in form Raina! Plus it was T20. He should've thrown his bat around or retired. That was a much worse performance than the others, and had no justification at all.

Yuvraj’s knock while terrible can be compared to SKY’s knock yesterday where there was intent but no timing, lack of form etc and good smart bowling by opposition.

 

Dhoni’s knock was too timid but Rahul’s knock was the most aimless and phattu knock i have ever seen. No recency bias here: conjured up all the factors   to come with that conclusion 

[Ultimate_Game]

1 minute ago, maniac said:

Yuvraj’s knock while terrible can be compared to SKY’s knock yesterday where there was intent but no timing, lack of form etc and good smart bowling by opposition.

 

Dhoni’s knock was too timid but Rahul’s knock was the most aimless and phattu knock i have ever seen. No recency bias here: conjured up all the factors   to come with that conclusion 

 

Though Rahul's knock was pathetic, India had lost 3 wkts by 11th over. At least there was a justification to bide out time and hope they score at the death. With Dhoni, he was the last batting pair with Jadeja followed by our pathetic tail. SKY's knock yesterday was pretty poor as well but there was nobody left at the time so it's not as if he gets out, someone else could do better given the quality of our tail which has remained consistent over the last decade - and the reason why we couldn't win even once when the chips were down.

 

But Yuvraj was batting when we had 8 wkts in the bank! He should've been run out by Kohli. If he had gotten out early, we would've scored around 150-160  which was a winning total on the pitch. Raina was in amazing form that tourney. That's the reason Yuvi's knock is bad as we were left wondering "what if Raina had a chance to bat". With the other knocks there were no what ifs coz we had already lost most of the batting and there wasn't anyone else to call upon.

[cricketfan28]

Yuvi

Dhoni

KL

[The Realist]

Rahul should not be playing competitive sport. So meek and mentally fragile. Never won anything tangible.

 

Even Rahane shows more intent and at least has smart captaincy skills.

 

[Gollum]

@maniac 2014 SL wasn't weak by any stretch of imagination. Till 2015/16 they were elite.

 

They didn't fluke their way to the 2014 final, remember how they thrashed NZ in the SF? They were finalists in 2009, 2012 WT20s, 2011 finalist even made the SF in 2013 CT. In that phase they were the most consistent team in ICC events, always made deep runs. Also 2014 was their year, won the Asia Cup, won a test series in England, hammered Pak (Misbah, YK, Ajmal team) mercilessly.

 

2016 WI too was damn good at T20s, especially on pitches like the ones they got in that SF match. Sammy was their number 9 or 10, imagine their batting depth and firepower.

[jusarrived]

Ok KLs knock wasn't great, he usually dosent counter attack like Virat ..you can argue he could have got 10-15 more singles in that innings ..but that's it. 40 overs to play on a difficult pitch with only tail to follow. It was a half decent knock which avoided us getting bowled out for 175. Dint mean much in the end, but if you have to blame it should be guys like Gill and Iyer who lacked the skill to apply on a difficult pitch 

 

I thought we where just unlucky yesterday, forget the pitch..everything was going straight to the fielders, Aus barely bowled one or two bad balls in the entire innings and the bloody dew in the second innings.   Aus just had a perfect day.

[Texan]

I know that emotions are high about the current WC loss, but Yuvraj's knock was hands down the worst ever knock in the history of Indian LOI cricket. It was completely brainless to plod around when there was absolutely no need. Kohli at the other end was striking it really well, there were no demons in the pitch and bowling wasn't threatening. He should have just skied one up and got out. That's all he had to do to give others a chance to bat. Yuvraj's knock was as brainless as it can get. We lost a great chance to win another WT20 that continues to elude us to this day (after that first one).

[Cricketics]

We had 22 freaking overs left when Kohli got out in the 28th over with score reading 148. 

 

So we were well over 5 runs per over in 28th over and 22 overs left still, we could have easily taken the score close to 275 plus had we only batted sensibly the next 22 overs. But we did not. This spill from Rahul looking deer caught in headlight when Kohli got out. Rahul had alresdy played 60 odd balls being slow and he continued further with Jadeja. 

 

One can blame seniors for throwing their wicket or not hitting much boundaries but they played their game to their role and set the score for the young players to contribute towards who have played enough now. 

 

148 in 28 overs and then nothing much to add after Kohli’s wicket is where we lost it eventually. It is a team game at the end of the day, individual brilliance like Shami’s 7fer doesn’t happen every day. 
 

 

 

 

[vvvslaxman]

India's biggest loss was Iyer. There is no way in hell he would have let those part timers get away.   He was the only X factor we had besides Rohit. SKY is a fake X factor. 

[Bigg Brother]

Rohit in last wt20 SF against England also needs an honourable mention, 27 off 28. The game was gone then and there only. Played mostly trundler Stokes,Woakes and Livingstone. 

 

Yuvi is faltu ka badnaam, Kohli played equally bad knock that day, 73 off 58 odds don't win you matches. You have to step up while setting up targets.

 

Out of the list, KLR Tops the list, Will never be able to forget him for this fiasco yesterday and those maidens overs in last wt20.

[maniac]

1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

India's biggest loss was Iyer. There is no way in hell he would have let those part timers get away.   He was the only X factor we had besides Rohit. SKY is a fake X factor. 

Getting a low score can happen to anyone. It takes 1 good ball or false shot but 60 from 100+ balls with 1 boundary is inexcusable 

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, maniac said:

Getting a low score can happen to anyone. It takes 1 good ball or false shot but 60 from 100+ balls with 1 boundary is inexcusable 

 

I just go by how KL Rahul played in previous games. Even when we were in commanding position he wasn't exactly racing away.

[The Hound]

Dhoni would've probably won that game if not for that freak runout. All he had to do was hit 20 off Neesham in the last over.  

Not really comparable to the other two

[maniac]

Let’s not forget Yuvi’s knock was in a T20 so sometimes it can get rough to get going. Head looked clueless yesterday in the first 5-10 overs. Who knows if it was a odi Yuvi might have eventually got going. I have seen such stroke makers struggle for 30-40 balls and turn it around. Still not excusable. Could have got himself out/retired.

 

MSD’s knock was covered by Jadeja so it looked better than it was.

 

Rahul’s knock was pure torture.

[maniac]

3 minutes ago, The Hound said:

Dhoni would've probably won that game if not for that freak runout. All he had to do was hit 20 off Neesham in the last over.  

Not really comparable to the other two

how many 20+ overs has Dhoni hit outside of IPL? Anyway it makes the list but not my top 1. Jadeja covered up for him but it was a timid and poor knock and hiding at no.7