South Africa is so infamous, the real chokers are the Indian team which has failed in 8 knockout matches in the last 10 years.

South Africa is the strongest team in the world of cricket, which makes big teams chew their noses with their performance. But the world of cricket has got a new choker.

Yes, the new star of the world of cricket is none other than the Indian team, which lost the final of the ICC World Test Championship against Australia yesterday and shattered the dream of ruling Test cricket for the second time in a row. This is the eighth failure of the Indian team in the knockout stage.

The Indian team beats the teams in the back-to-back series throughout the year and comes as the favorite in the ICC events, but in the knock-out matches, the hands are swollen. Irrespective of the format of cricket, it has become a new tradition for the Indian team to square in the must-win game.

The Indian team lost to Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup final in 2014, and in the next year in 2015, Australia suffered the defeat in the ODI World Cup semi-final, forcing the Indian team to return home empty-handed.

The 2016 T20 semi-final will always be a bittersweet memory for Indians as they were beaten by the West Indies at home.

Then comes the 2017 Champions Trophy final which no one will be able to forget as it was arch-rivals Pakistan who broke the tradition of not winning against India in the ICC event in such a spectacular manner that the entire cricketing world was wowed.

On the one hand, after a one-sided competition, captain Sarfaraz was lifting the trophy as the winner, while the Indians were bowing their heads and regretting the shameful defeat.

In the 2019 ODI World Cup in England, India entered the tournament as favorites, but were easily defeated by New Zealand in the semi-finals.

Two years later the format was changed but the teams were the same and the result was the same. In the 2021 ICC World Test Championship final, New Zealand beat India and crowned themselves victorious.

Fed up with the defeats, the Indian Cricket Board changed the coach and captain, but could not change the habit of waiting in the knockout stages. In the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in 2022, England suffered a crushing defeat once again.

BCCI aspires to become the super power of cricket but in the knockout match the power full board team becomes a wet cat.

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