Thread by @SarcasticIndian

Reasons for India's early exit (in descending order) -
1. Toss
2. Conditions
3. Poor Intent
4. Bad play under pressure
Selections - which everyone is saying is the main reason - is not even 10%. That would have come into play only if we had lost games marginally.
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The very same XI will win vs England if they had won tosses/if the conditions didn't change drastically mid-game/in a bilateral series.

It always shocks me when cricket watchers, ex-cricketers, commentators, "experts" etc don't talk about or don't acknowledge the effect conditions have (unless it is to bash India for "rank turners") on an outcome of the game.

https://twitter.com/iplthebest/status/1457594199386177537

Forget India for a minute as everyone thinks they were a bad team. Look at Australia who are serious title contenders.
They lost only 1 game - in Dubai, after losing the toss they were only able to make a sub-par score (ie just like India vs Pak & NZ).

Go & look at the amount of *seam* movement Woakes was getting in the 1st innings. Seam, mind you, not swing which is Woakes' strength. He even mentioned it in the mid-game interview. 2nd innings Cummins & Hazlewood who are much better *seam* bowlers got nadda. What happened?

Did Woakes transform into a seam bowling beast & Australian seam bowlers become club level bowlers for that 1 game?
Then of course chasing such a low score with dew coming there is no pressure on the batsmen & every bowler looks less effective.

Pressure is everything in a game & more so in a chase. Remember how Joe Burns made a fluent 50* when chasing a small score in the 4th innings of the 1st test of BGT '20-21? He couldn't make a run before but suddenly looked in top form. Very next test he was back to being woeful.