Talking about New Zealand's triumph by eight wickets in their WTC 2021 final against India, ex-India head coach Ravi Shastri said, "On the sixth day, I thought in hindsight, 'We should have never lost that game'." "That should have been drawn," he added. Discussing India's defeat in their World Cup 2019 semi-final against New Zealand, Shastri stated, "We were cautious."