Mohammed Siraj and different India bowlers’ confidence will improve after profitable defence in tight end, says Yuzvendra Chahal

India held off a late surge from West Indies to scrape via by a mere three runs within the first of three ODIs on the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad on Friday. West Indies had been all the way down to 252 for six within the forty fifth over in pursuit of India’s 308 for 7, however No 8 Romario Shepherd’s fireworks revived them. It got here down to fifteen wanted off the final over bowled by Mohammed Siraj, and the pacer bought his full deliveries heading in the right direction to carry off Shepherd, who completed unbeaten on 39 off 25.

After the slim victory, Yuzvendra Chahal mentioned that India had the assumption heading into the ultimate over, given how Siraj had been touchdown it within the blockhole earlier. “We had full confidence, the way Siraj was bowling his yorkers, that we could defend 15 runs in the over,” Chahal mentioned.

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“In a couple of earlier overs, I think he missed just one or two yorkers. But there is always a bit of pressure, especially the way they were batting. One hit could have changed the match. When Sanju (Samson) made that stop off the wide, our confidence increased further.”

With eight wanted off two balls, Siraj had despatched the ball down the leg aspect however wicketkeeper Samson saved what may properly have been 4 byes with a giant dive.

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Skipper Shikhar Dhawan, additionally Player of the Match for his 97, mentioned that it had bought too shut however India had tried to take care of calm and use the longer boundary. “There were nerves in the end and I didn’t expect it to turn out that way,” Dhawan mentioned. “We kept our cool and one small change in the end where we pushed the fine leg back and that really helped us. The discussion was to use the bigger side as much as we can.”

Earlier, Chahal had struck two very important blows himself, within the thirty seventh and forty fifth overs, sending again Rovman Powell cheaply and a well-set Brandon King for 54. Both West Indies left-arm spinners Akeal Hosein and Gudakesh Motie had discovered some grip because the ball had bought older within the first innings, and Chahal additionally made use of that, in addition to bringing the longer boundary into play extra typically.

“I knew that the ball had got old and I could beat the batsmen with turn. So I was changing my lines and bowling wider. The leg-side boundary was a bit shorter, so I thought that it is better if I try to get them to hit over cover,” mentioned Chahal.

The leg-spinner added that he has been informed he should bowl a bit after the fortieth over and used his Indian Premier League death-bowling expertise for that position.

“I have bowled a lot in the 16th, 17th and 18th overs in the IPL so that has given me confidence. In ODIs, my role has been made clear that I will bowl a couple of overs after the 40th. So I plan accordingly in the nets and with the bowling coach,” mentioned Chahal.

“Their middle-order batsmen should also be given credit for batting well, but we knew that if we could take a couple of wickets, the pressure would be on them.”

Chahal mentioned that the Indian bowling assault, particularly Siraj, would take quite a lot of confidence going into the remainder of the sequence after popping out on the best aspect of the opening thriller.

“Even if 60 are needed off the last six (overs), we know that three-four big hits can do it. I think we gave away 10-15 extra runs but we will learn from it,” Chahal mentioned. “After such a match, Siraj and the other bowlers’ confidence will increase a lot because it was a small ground and they have big hitters so it was not easy to defend.”