Captain Sri Lanka, Captain of the Arjun Ranatung World Cup is known for his controversial statements. Ranatunga made another shocking claim that his team who won the 1996 World Cup would beat the current Indian team in India in just three days.
The statements of Arjun Ranatunga come to the back of some bad performances of India in the last few tests. Blue men lost their test series in Australia and lost themselves in the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
Loss in Australia followed after a shocking defeat to New Zealand at home. India, which has been at home near the invincible since the last decade, has suffered a shocking purely running in New Zealand, who fought on their past test tours on the subcontinent.
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Arjuna Ranatunga presents a shocking claim in Team India
Arjuna Ranatunga claimed that his side had a world -class bowling attack that consisted of Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralidaran. Ranatunga believes that the 1996 Sri Lanka team would easily beat India on Indian soil.
“With bowlers like (Chaminda) Vaas and Muratiah Muralidaran), my team in India would win in India in three days,” the wire of the Telegraph quoted.
Tim Sri Lanka who won the World Cup World Cup included world class players like Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Aravinda de Silva, Sanath Jayasuriya, Romesh Kaluwitharan and Marvan Atapatt with Arjun Ranatung.
Aravinda de Silva took Sri Lanka to the 1996 World Cup title.
Sri Lanka defeated Australia in the Lahore World Cup final in Lahore to abolish her only World Cup trophy so far. Arjuna Ranatunga is known as an inspirational captain who stood behind his team and led them from the front.
In the finals, Allround Aravid de Silva produced a versatile effect to take Sri Lanka to an unforgettable victory. De Silva ended up with figures of 3-42 in 9 adding with his bowling outside the spin and was the best bowler of his team.
He did not stop here and made an even better performance with a baton. Aravinda de Silva scored 107 out of 124 balls with 13 four and remained undefeated to the end. Accordingly, the skipper of Arjun Ranatunga was at the other end, remained undefeated at 47 of only 37 balls, while Sri Lanka won with 7 Wicks with 22 balls.
Indian shocking test series Defeat in New Zealand
India suffered a shocking test defeat at home in New Zealand last year. Before the series, it was expected that men in Blue would pair their opponents, who until that moment were not the best passengers in India.
However, New Zealand has achieved something that most teams dreamed of just achieving their lives. India prepared surfaces adapted to spins at home, but the decision proved to be harmful to them as the trio Ayaz Patel, Mitchell Santner and Glenn Phillips succumbed to them.
New Zealand continued to achieve one of the best results in their history history, beating India 3-0 on Indian soil. The defeat badly hurt India because they could not qualify for the World Cup finals (WTC).
