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India has been one of the strongest cricket team in the World. Though the fans are behind their team in bath and blood, Indian team performance in ICC trophies has been not up to the mark.
Over times, there also have come some matches when Indian team has to face defeat by 10 wickets, lets look at the painful days of Indian cricket team :-
1)Against New Zealand , Melbourne, 1981 :- The first on the list dates way back to 1981 against the team India doesn’t have good record in ICC knockouts, New Zealand.
Batting first India made only 112 runs in 34 overs which was chased down easily by New Zealand openers.
Former Indian coach John Wright remain unbeaten on 39.
2)Against West Indies, Bridgetown, 1997 :- India batting first got 1 shy of 200 as West Indies needed an easy target of 200 runs to register a win.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul century along with his opening partner made sure none of the West Indies batsman have to come out to bat as India got defeated by 10 wickets.
Quite hard to digest for then Indian captain Sachin Tendulkar who got out cheaply for a run.
3)Against South Africa, Sharjah, 2000 :- The famous duo of Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs had no problems whatsoever in chasing down a modest total of 164 runs of Indian team captained by Saurav Ganguly.
4)Against South Africa, Eden Gardens, 2005 :- Not a good day at all to play in front of home crowd and get nailed by 10 wickets by the same opponent who delivered them their last 10 wicket loss, South Africa.
Graeme Smith used the chasing total of 188 to better his number as he remained unbeaten on 134 runs. Not good day at the office for captain Dravid.
5)Against Australia, 2005, Mumbai :- May be the most bitter of all the 10 wicket defeats.
Australia chased down a respectable total of 255 without disturbing the wicket column.
Needless to say, both the Australian openers Warner and Finch added a century to their tally.
