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India will play its last, inconsequential match against Namibia today and then they will all go home.

For the first time in about 9 years India has failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.

There will be much analysis by idiot experts and expert idiots, by journalists and sociologists, by coaches and hangers-on, by talk-show hosts and politicians, by pundits and imams, by celebrities and other ignoramuses, and sometimes by the knowledgeable. We will hear variously that:

1. 1. the IPL is prioritised over playing for the country,
   2. the BCCI failed,
   3. the BCCI is only interested in money
   4. Ravi Shastri had no interest,
   5. there is too much cricket,
   6. team selection was wrong,
   7. the timing was wrong for the tournament,
   8. it was not an auspicious time,
   9. the batsmen failed,
   10. the bowlers had too much to do
   11. it was bad luck or bad karma
   12. India team players are not hungry enough,
   13. the matches were fixed,
   14. Virat Kohli is well past it,
   15. Rishab Pant is a buffoon,
   16. Harthik Pandya is crude and over-rated,
   17. …………

The real reasons claimed might seem quite simple.

1. 1. 2 +0 +2 + 1 ≠ 8

   2. 2 +0 +2 + 1 = 5 which is not divisible by 3

   3. The team uniform was the wrong shade of blue

   4. It was too hot by 1.5 ⁰C (climate change).

But the one true reason, of course, is that

The team was jaded and not quite good enough.

Tags: Cricket, T20

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