Virat Kohli and Co lost Champions Trophy final, but Kidambi Srikanth, hockey team did Indian sports proud firstpost.com

India’s hockey heroes kept the flag flying on a dismal day for cricket. Somewhere the ammo in the Indian arsenal was damp and misfired. From the moment Jasprit Bumrah let Fakhar Zaman’s catch by MS Dhoni get disallowed on a no-ball, the cake began to crumble.

It had to happen one day and our winning streak in the Champion’s Trophy is over. We are good to go. We won it last time and we are runners-up this time around four years later. It’s okay, we just didn’t look a happy bunch. Perhaps what’s good at Cardiff and Edgbaston doesn’t work at The Oval, and after winning the toss, maybe we should have batted. But that is hindsight and it does not count.