Which World Cup Exit was the most painful for India ?

[Kenneth Viljoen]

In the aftermath , it is a time to reflect

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

This one easily. To dominate nearly all of it, to half more or less your best ever LOI squad going at peak form, and then lose without a fight.

 

[Silver Silva]

96 semi final, no offense to the Indian crowd that attended in 23 but they weren't that intimidating, the crowd in 96 were baying for blood ..I don't know how we pulled that victory off in such an Atmosphere but it really hurt India a lot that day they couldn't handle our bowlers, I think most Indian youngsters these days care more about IPL and social media

 

[GIMH]

This isn’t really an ‘exit’ tbf

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

This isn’t really an ‘exit’ tbf

Yeah I got WC result on the poll question

 

[chris.hinton]

What the most funniest you mean

 

[trundler]

Probably 2003. That was a thrashing as opposed to a fluke.

 

[Daemon]

Easily this. 2003 was against an ATG side.

Here we got owned by a guy who may or may not be homo sapiens.

 

[Himannv]

Is 2007 not an obvious answer? They got humbled by Bangladesh back when they were still considered minnows and just won one game (against Bermuda). The only redeeming factor was that Pakistan also got eliminated in similar fashion after losing to Ireland.

 

[Sunil1z]

2019
That was peak of Rohit + Kohli + Kuldeep + Chahal + Bumrah
Just 18 months before WC 19 , we had won ODI series in SA, NZ , Aus , Asia cup .

 

[Molehill]

Surely, it has to be this one or possibly '96. If you're the favourite to win a tournament then it's going to hurt more when you don't. That this one happened in front of 90k fans in the Prime Minister's own stadium is pretty funny for the neutral.

As an England fan and used to supporting a load of rubbish, the pressure was so bad in 2019 because I knew if we were ever going to win it, this was the chance.

 

[Sunil1z]

This Team couldn’t bat out 2 sessions on Day 6 in WTC 21 final to get a Draw result. So , nothing is unexpected from this Team .

 

[OverratedSanity]

1. 96
2. 2023

Rest are meh

 

[OverratedSanity]

96 semi final, no offense to the Indian crowd that attended in 23 but they weren't that intimidating, the crowd in 96 were baying for blood ..I don't know how we pulled that victory off in such an Atmosphere but it really hurt India a lot that day they couldn't handle our bowlers, I think most Indian youngsters these days care more about IPL and social media

Definitely the most painful loss, I remember being euphoric after that incredible first over where we got both Kalu and jayasuriya. The sound after the second wicket is one of the loudest you could hope to hear. And then Aravinda played that blinder. Whole thing was obviously made even more painfuly by the crowd trouble at the end.

2023 is second, but we never looked up for it tbh.

 

[Sunil1z]

How 96 ?
Didn’t SL beat us comfortably in group stage ?
Or you are talking about the way our batting collapsed in SF ?

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

2023 is more annoying than anything, because Ind looked to win in all probability before the final. Getting outclassed which is clearly inferior to your side beguiles and annoys more than anything

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

This Team couldn’t bat out 2 sessions on Day 6 in WTC 21 final to get a Draw result. So , nothing is unexpected from this Team .

Cmon dude, they won 10 out of 10 straight in a dominant way. Winning was easily expected

 

[OverratedSanity]

How 96 ?
Didn’t SL beat us comfortably in group stage ?
Or you are talking about the way our batting collapsed in SF ?

Semifinal collapse. SL were two down in the first over. Ended with the crowd throwing bottles onto the field no doubt in a clever attempt to call the team bottlers.

Traumatic childhood memory. As 2023 will probably be for kids now I suppose.

 

[Sunil1z]

Cmon dude, they won 10 out of 10 straight in a dominant way. Winning was easily expected

And we had done the same in WT20 2014 and even more favourites in CT 2017 F . Did you really underestimate the ability of this Team to choke?

 

[Sunil1z]

Semifinal collapse. SL were two down in the first over. Ended with the crowd throwing bottles onto the field no doubt in a clever attempt to call the team bottlers.

Traumatic childhood memory. As 2023 will probably be for kids now I suppose.

2023 won’t be traumatic imo. We have another ICC tournament in 7 months . People will easily forget it .