India Are The Champions Trophy Winners, But With A Big Disclaimer
They played like champions and they deserved this Champions Trophy . Those were the biased words of Ravi Shastri in commentary as India scored the winning runs in the Champions Trophy final against New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday.
The former India captain used the word deserved rather loosely in my opinion, despite his repeated banging on throughout the match about what a fantastic final this has been.
India were always going to win the Champions Trophy, in a tournament they engineered the odds to be permanently in their favour.
In fact, Id go as far as to say that I respect the Proteas team more who crashed out of the tournament in a convincing fashion to New Zealand in the semi-finals.
No certainty in cricket, but this was closeWhile theres no absolute certainty in a cricket match when pre-determining the winner, this is about as close as it gets.