{"id":2470,"date":"2021-06-24T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=115688"},"modified":"2021-06-24T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T12:32:28","slug":"better-team-won-in-the-conditions-says-ravi-shastri-on-new-zealands-victory-in-the-wtc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/better-team-won-in-the-conditions-says-ravi-shastri-on-new-zealands-victory-in-the-wtc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Better team won in the conditions\u2019 says Ravi Shastri on New Zealand\u2019s victory in the WTC Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian team head coach Ravi Shastri said that \u201cbig things don\u2019t come easily\u201d as he acknowledged that the Blackcaps were the better team in the World Test Championship final that his side lost after an especially poor batting performance. New Zealand won the game by eight wickets to deny another major title to Virat Kohli\u2019s team. Kohli hasn\u2019t won any ICC title yet.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, India was bowled out for 217 runs in the first innings and 170 runs in the second innings, a decidedly below-par performance by a much-vaunted line-up. Ravi Shastri tweeted, \u201cThe better team won in the conditions, Deserved winners after longest wait for a World Title. A classic example of Big things doesn\u2019t come easy. Well played, New Zealand. Respect.\u201d Before Wednesday, New Zealand\u2019s only ICC title came way back in 2000. The Kiwis suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the ODI World Cup of 2015 and 2019 after entering into the finals both the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Better team won in the conditions. Deserved winners after the longest wait for a World Title. Classic example of Big things don't come easy. Well played, New Zealand. Respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaviShastriOfc\/status\/1408011558995718148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Before this epic final, Shastri had suggested a best of three final for the coming edition of the WTC, saying a one-off game is just not enough to evaluate a team\u2019s credentials. Also, Virat Kohli said that this one defeat will not define his team\u2019s hard work of the past two years, including a remarkable away triumph over Australia despite an injury-ravaged squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian team head coach Ravi Shastri said that \u201cbig things don\u2019t come easily\u201d as he acknowledged that the Blackcaps were\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":25558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1735,1736,1415,1220,132,1116,1734],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-board-of-control-for-cricket-in-india","tag-international-cricket-council","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-nzc","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-wtc","tag-wtc-final"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}