Hardik Pandya’s workforce suffered their second successive defeat within the five-match collection towards West Indies and the loss additionally highlighted the dearth of batting firepower of their decrease order.
India’s determination to select specialist bowlers, who can hardly bat, successfully left them with 4 quantity 11 batters in each matches. They now have to win the third match in Windfall on Tuesday to remain afloat within the collection.
“The West Indies have highlighted one of many points that India have in white ball cricket. They gained at this time as a result of that they had six hitters down the order,” commentator Harsha Bhogle wrote on X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter.
“India are likely to taper off on the finish. You do not want batters down at 9/10 however they should have the flexibility to hit boundaries.”
India posted a below-par 152-7 earlier than bouncing again to cut back the hosts to 129-Eight in 16 overs.
However Akeal Hosein and Alzarri Joseph milked 26 runs off 17 balls for the unbroken ninth wicket to seal victory by two wickets with seven balls to spare.
Pandya, main an India aspect sans a number of frontline gamers, put the onus on their prime and center order to attain extra runs.
“With the present mixture, we should belief out prime seven batters to come back good and hope the bowlers win you video games,” the all-rounder stated after the defeat.
“We now have to search out methods to ensure now we have the fitting steadiness however on the similar time batters have to take extra duty.”
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