Former Head Coach Ravi Shastri remembers the 2011 World Cup defeat to New Zealand
The Indian cricket team is performing well in the 2023 World Cup, as they have won all of their matches until now in the tournament. As India geared up for a high-profile match against New Zealand, a team they haven't beaten in an ICC event since 2003, former head coach Ravi Shastri recalled a saying by the legendary MS Dhoni. India last won the ODI World Cup in 2011, where the team had lost just one match in the entire campaign, against New Zealand in the league stage.
Shastri, in a chat before the start of the match, asserted that if India were to lose a match, it better be in the league phase of the World Cup. The 1983 World Cup-winner recalled how Dhoni used to advocate the same
Shastri said, "In 2011, India lost one game. And that was a league game for New Zealand, but they went on to win the World Cup. I remember MS Dhoni, when he was the captain, saying once, 'You know, sometimes in the league format of the World Cup, it's good to lose one game, you know, because you don't want to be suddenly caught in a semi-final or final where you want everything and then you get the shivers.”