India bids farewell to coach in World Cup exit

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India farewelled manager Ravi Shastri with a triumph aft ending its Twenty20 World Cup campaign beating Namibia by 9 wickets.

Out of semifinals contention, India made definite determination was nary slip-up with a implicit performance: Limiting Namibia to 132-8 and overhauling that with 136-1 successful 15.1 overs.

Spinners Ravindra Jadeja (3-16) and Ravichandran Ashwin (3-20) starred successful the archetypal fractional of the past Super 12 match, past Rohit Sharma — dropped by Michael van Lingen astatine abbreviated good limb successful the archetypal implicit — and KL Rahul smashed half-centuries successful the 2nd half. Sharma made 56 and Rahul an unbeaten 54 disconnected 36 balls.

The lucifer was besides the past for India bowling manager Bharat Arun and fielding manager Ramakrishnan Sridhar, portion Virat Kohli captained India for the 50th and past clip successful T20s.

Tournament big India, the favourite for the title, finished 3rd successful its radical aft losing some of its opening games to eventual semifinalists Pakistan and New Zealand.

Namibia had a run to beryllium respected, and earned a solitary triumph against Scotland successful the Super 12s.

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