Ineffective bowling within the center overs and batters’ incapacity to construct partnerships led to India’s downfall within the three-match ODI collection towards Bangladesh, captain Rohit Sharma stated on Wednesday.
India misplaced by 5 runs within the second ODI right here on Wednesday to give up the three-match collection 0-2.
“When you lose a game, there are positives and negatives. From being 69 for 6, allowing them to get to 270-odd wasn’t a great effort from our bowlers. We started well but the middle overs and the back end is what’s hurting us a lot. Happened in the last game as well. It’s something we need to work on,” a upset Rohit stated on the post-match presentation ceremony.”
Commenting on India’s batting, he stated, “In One-Day cricket, it’s about partnerships and when you get those, you have to ensure that they are converted to match-winning partnerships. That’s what they did. If you get those 70-run stands, you need to convert them into 110-120 run partnerships for the team to win games, as it isn’t easy for the new batter. Need to be braver in the middle.”
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Invited to bowl, India had Bangladesh on the mat at 69 for six earlier than final match’s hero Mehidy Hasan Miraz (100 off 83 balls) stitched an epic 148-run partnership off 165 balls with Mahmudullah (77 off 96) to take the host to a combating whole. “Not taking anything away from Mehidy and Mahmudullah, was a great partnership but we also need to find ways of breaking such partnerships,” Rohit stated.
Injury considerations
The skipper additionally stated that there have been just a few harm considerations for India forward of the third ODI on Saturday.
“There are a few injury concerns, we need to get to the bottom of this. Need to try and monitor them, because it’s important to understand this. When they come to play for India, they need to be at more than 100 percent. We need to monitor their workload because we can’t have guys coming in to play for the country half-fit,” Rohit stated.
Rival captain Litton Das was ecstatic after successful his first collection as skipper. “Very happy, to win in my first series as captain, it feels good,” he stated.
“We felt that 240-250 was a good score. We were under pressure but they (Mahmudullah and Mehidy) were brilliant. Don’t know what their conversations were, but what they did was simply superb. I wanted to rotate my main bowlers around because it was a good pitch in the second half, so I couldn’t afford to bowl too many of my main bowlers early on. The focus for the next game will also be about winning,” Das added.
Miraz, who received his second consecutive participant of the match award, stated thanked the Almighty and stated his arduous work during the last couple of years is lastly paying off. “Last few years, I have worked hard on the batting and focused on certain areas to improve,” he stated.
“My coaches have given me a lot of information on improving my game. Riyad Bhai (Mahmudullah) kept telling me that we need to keep playing deep into the innings and the conversations were mostly about keeping small targets of partnerships. I was just trying to hit the good areas with the ball and put pressure on them.”