Pathetic performance

[Captain1]

Re: Pathetic performance

@GoldenAsif

Small run chases can be tricky. It was disappointing that we could not win from that position (113/3) but these things happen in cricket. I thought India bowled and fielded very well
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Once you have dismissed the opposition cheaply, you should be saying to yourself as a team ‘let’s go & get these runs at a reasonable rate, say in 40 overs’. You should n’t be thinking about batting the full 50 overs or leaving it till the last overs.

Pak batsmen just don’t rotate the strike well. We either have good hitters (UA, Jamshed) or tuk tuk players (Younis, Misbah and Malik). Too often they go into their shells and fail to keep the scoreboard moving, thus putting more pressure upon themselves. They make the target seem more difficult than it actually is with their overcautious approach. This is what exactly happened with Younis (attempted an expansive drive instead of playing the ball on merit because runs were hard to come by) and Umar Akmal (was unnecessarily stumped in the final PP over). One could see it coming. One could almost sense in that final PP over that UA would do something stupid soon. He should have realised that the RRR was still a very manageable under 4 RPO. Both crumbled under pressure.

Anyways we shouldn’t be too critical, there are definitely areas in which we need to improve but overall the team exceeded our expectations.

That was the key, if you look at bowling map of India’s bowlers you will see how disciplined they were, then you look at Umar Gul’s map and you will see he was drawing world’s map with his bowling. Umar Gul was the the real difference. Apart from that any lose balls was hit by Pakistani batsmen but it found a fielder hungry to stop it, Indian team was sharp in fielding and choked the run rate.