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India have all the resources to be champion: Irfan Pathan

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India have all the resources to be champion: Irfan Pathan | Former cricketer Irfan Pathan believes India have the resources to become world champion

2007 World T20 champion Irfan Pathan said that India have to plan better for ICC events in the future as they have all the resources. The former left-arm pacer blamed the middle order confusion for India’s exit from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.

“We need to make sure that we have better planning going into the ICC trophies, going into the World Cup. If we have better planning, we have all the resources to be a champion,” Pathan said on Star Sports show Cricket Connected.

India last won an ICC event in 2013, when they won the ICC Champions Trophy under MS Dhoni’s captaincy. Since then, India has made atleast the Semi Final of all the five ICC events, but failed to win any of the tournaments.

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“The only thing lacking is that we did not have a number four batsman just before the World Cup as well. We were struggling with having a proper eleven,” the former Baroda all-rounder said.

“If you look at the recent 2019 tournament, it was bad planning. We have resources, we have players, we have fitness, we have everything to be a world champion,” added the 35-year old.

Pathan’s comments come as former Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir suggested India lack a bit of the mental strength needed to perform in knockout matches.

“If you look at all the semi-finals and finals, it just shows when playing really well in the league stage and you don’t play well in the semi-finals or knockouts, it’s probably your mental toughness as well,” Gambhir said.

Written by Sarthak Karkhanis. Follow Sarthak on Twitter today.

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Sarthak Karkhanis
Sarthak Karkhanis
Sarthak is a well-established cricket writer and video producer. In addition to writing for CricBlog, Sarthak has worked with Star Sports, ESPNcricinfo, The Quint, and Hotstar.

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