Against all odds, it was under Ajinkya Rahane’s leadership that India registered a famous series win in Australia. Rishabh Pant’s heroics on the final day, saw India breaching the fortress, and as a result, India won the series 2-1.
The next big highlight was India’s performance in the Test series against England. The fifth match will be played in 2022, but heading into that match, India would enter with a 2-1 series lead and they are on the brink of registering a famous Test win.
India failed to reach the semi-finals. The Men in Blue even ended up losing against Pakistan, and this was the first time that India lost to Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup.The campaign started off on a shaky note as Kohli announced that this tournament would be his last as the T20I skipper.
the biggest talking point and controversy has come almost at the end of 2021 as Virat Kohli and BCCI President Sourav Ganguly are at loggerheads over the removal of Kohli as the ODI skipper.