The winning captain of the world of Sri Lanka, Arjuna Ranatunga, is known for his controversial statements. Ranatunga has made another shocking statement that its 1996 World Cup winning team would have defeated the current Indian team in India in just three days.
Arjuna Ranatunga’s statements come to the back of some bad actions of India in recent evidence. The Men In Blue lost the test series in Australia and lost their control in the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
The defeat against Australia occurred after an impressive defeat in the series against New Zealand at home. India, who has been close to invincible at home since the last decade, suffered a shocking clean sweep to New Zealand, which has fought in her trial tours prior to the subcontinent.
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Arjuna Ranatunga makes a shocking claim on the Indian team
Arjuna Ranatunga said that his team had a world -class bowling attack that consisted of Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah muralidaren. Ranatunga feels that Sri Lanka’s team in 1996 would have defeated India on Indian soil easily.
“With bowling players such as (Chaminda) Vaas and Murali (Muttiah Muralidaran), my team would have defeated India in India in three days,” Ranatunga said cited by The Telegraph.
The winning team of the Sri Lanka World Cup included world -class players such as Muttah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Aravinda de Silva, Sanath Jayasuriya, Romesh Kaluwitharana and Marvan Atapat.
Aravinda de Silva Tok Sri Lanka to the 1996 World Cup title
Sri Lanka defeated Australia in the 1996 World Cup final held in Lahore to raise her only hate world cup trophy so far. It is known that Arjuna Ranatunga is an inspiring captain who stopped behind her team and directed them from the front.
In the final, the Allrounder Aravida de Silva produced a general performance to take Sri Lanka to a memorable victory. De Silva ended with 3-42 figures in 9 overs with his bowling alley and was the best bowling player of his day team.
He did not stop here and produced an even better performance with the bat. Aravinda de Silva scored 107 of 124 balls with 13 four and remained undefeated until the end. Timely, Captain Arjuna Ranatunga was at the other end, remaining undefeated with 47 of only 37 balls when Sri Lanka won by 7 WICKETS with 22 balls left over.
The shocking defeat of the Indian test series to New Zealand
India suffered a shocking defeat in the series of tests at the New Zealand home last year. Before the series, blue men were expected to see their opponents, who had not been the best travelers in India until that moment.
However, New Zealand achieved something that most teams only dreamed of achieving in their lives. India prepared the friendly surfaces with the turn at home, but the decision was harmful to them when they succumbed to the New Zealand Spinning trio of Ajaz Patel, Mitchell Santner and Glenn Phillips.
New Zealand achieved one of the best results in his history of Crickt by defeating India 3-0 in the Indian soil. The defeat greatly harmed India, since they could not qualify for the World Testing Championship (WTC).