{"id":8792,"date":"2025-03-09T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=574328"},"modified":"2025-03-09T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:05:17","slug":"a-rare-1-in-32768-probability-rohit-sharmas-toss-struggles-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/a-rare-1-in-32768-probability-rohit-sharmas-toss-struggles-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare 1 in 32,768 probability: Rohit Sharma\u2019s toss struggles continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India\u2019s unwanted streak of losing tosses continued in the <\/span><b>ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as Rohit Sharma once again called it wrong. This was <\/span><b>India\u2019s 15th consecutive toss loss in ODIs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, while Rohit himself has now lost <\/span><b>12 in a row<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The odds of this happening are a staggering <\/span><b>1 in 32,768<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, making it one of the most bizarre streaks in cricket history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Zealand, after winning the toss, <\/span><b>chose to bat first<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a pitch expected to slow down later in the game. Rohit and his team have had to adjust to playing second every time, but despite the streak, India has reached the final with strong performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>New Zealand fight back to post 251<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Batting first, <\/span><b>New Zealand <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">put up <\/span><b>251 for 7<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in their 50 overs. They lost early wickets but <\/span><b>Daryl Mitchell (63 runs) steadied the innings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, while <\/span><b>Michael Bracewell played a quickfire knock of 53 off 40 balls<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to give them a strong finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">India\u2019s bowlers kept the pressure on, with <\/span><b>Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav picking up two wickets each<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. However, Bracewell\u2019s late surge ensured that New Zealand set a <\/span><b>challenging target<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for the Indian batters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the toss out of their control, India must now focus on their batting effort to chase down 252 and in order to lift their <\/span><b>third Champions Trophy title<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s unwanted streak of losing tosses continued in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final, as Rohit Sharma once again called\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":31597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","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\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}