NEW DELHI: “It happens. Keep smiling, the country is looking up to you”. That was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message to Team India when he visited their dressing room after the defeat towards Australia within the ODI World Cup last on Sunday in Ahmedabad.
India misplaced the title conflict by six wickets as Australia chased down the 241-run goal with ease to win a record-extending sixth title.Played on the world’s largest cricket stadium named after PM Modi himself, the conclusion of the ultimate noticed among the Indian gamers crying, together with skipper Rohit Sharma who struggled to carry again his tears as his eyes welled up strolling again to the dressing room.
In a video of PM Modi visiting the workforce of their dressing room, the Prime Minister could possibly be seen greeting and motivating the gamers and head coach Rahul Dravid, saying “it happens” in sport and urging the gamers to be one another’s power on this hour.
The PM hugged quick bowler Mohammed Shami, whereas sharing a number of phrases in Gujarati with native gamers Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah.

He went on to place an arm round a visibly unhappy Virat Kohli and skipper Rohit Sharma, after which held the palms of India’s two iconic gamers, whereas making an attempt to cheer them up.
Following the defeat, the Indian workforce was an emotional wreck, as head coach Rahul Dravid revealed after the match in his press convention.
“Of course, he (Rohit Sharma) is dissatisfied, as are many boys within the dressing room…There have been a whole lot of feelings in that dressing room. It was robust to see as a coach as a result of I understand how exhausting these guys have labored, what they’ve put in, the sacrifices they’ve made,” said Dravid, who was part of the team that lost the 2003 World Cup final to Australia.

“It’s robust to see…since you get to know these boys personally, you get to see the trouble they put in, the exhausting work that we now have put in over the past month, the form of cricket we now have performed,” mentioned the batting legend.
India had received all their 9 league matches to qualify for the semis because the top-placed workforce on the factors desk. They defeated New Zealand within the semi-final, however could not put it throughout the Aussies who have been scientific in all three departments on the day that mattered essentially the most.