And the knock-out horrors for India resume for the 7th straight ICC tournament after it lifted the last multi-national tournament in 2013 under MS Dhoni.

Revisiting India’s poor show at the grand stage of the ICC events despite finishing on an impressive tone in the group stage.

The story began back in 2014 when India was thrashed by Sri Lanka in a low-scoring clash at the final of the T20 World Cup.

Batting first Australians posted a mammoth total of 300 plus runs in the 2015 WC Semi-Final, even after a fine beginning through the heroics of Rohit-Dhawan India failed to chase it down.

The delightful Wankhede crowd was stunned so as the Indian side after the Caribbean side dominated the run chase against India in the semi-final of the 2016 T20 World Cup.

India was up against their arch-rivals Pakistan in the final of the 2017 Champions Trophy, although failed to stand on to their fan’s hope after suffering humiliation at the grand stage.

A rain-hit match where bowlers did extremely well restricting Kiwi batters to a humble total of 239, however, the Indian batters failed one after the other in the semi-final back in the 2019 World Cup.

After a fine campaign over the course of two years 2019-2021 in the inaugural edition of the World Test Championship, India couldn’t cash in the opportunity against the Kiwis yet again and lost the Final.

England handed over a humiliating defeat to India by 10 wickets in Adelaide in the semi-final yet again and the curse of ICC events knock-out resumed for three times World Champions.