Former New Zealand cricketer and famous broadcaster Simon Doull has shared his views on Team India’s schedule in the ongoing T20 World Cup. While they had started their campaign with two consecutive defeats against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 24th and New Zealand, it was their fixture that made things worse as the gap was of one week as well.

And, Doull stated that playing against Pakistan in the first game was okay but he felt that New Zealand should have been their last opponent. While speaking to Cricbuzz, Simon Doull said: “I don’t know how to put this kindly, but there was a real air of arrogance around the scheduling and that is what the broadcasters wanted with involvement from the ICC as they wanted India’s fixtures around the holidays around Diwali and all that so they wanted those games at peak times.’Pakistan should have been the first game, but the game against New Zealand should have been the final contest. It should have been India against New Zealand for a place in the semi-final at the end.”

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However, Team India didn’t make it to the semi-final as they won their last three matches. And, the captain Virat Kohli had also opined on the week-long break in between the match between Pakistan and New Zealand as well. Meanwhile, Team India successfully thrashed Afghanistan, Scotland and Namibia convincingly after facing defeat in the first two.

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Meanwhile, India cricketer Dinesh Karthik has also felt that India should have a better schedule. Speaking to Cricbuzz, Karthik said: “Everyone expected the contest against Pakistan a walk in the park considering the talent we have. It’s a learning curve as well. Can give many reasons, but at the end of the day, India knows they did not play their best cricket.’They would have hoped had the final three games been the ones they began with, they could have taken the confidence for the tough games. But, that is the beauty of a tournament like a World Cup, can’t pick and choose here.”