T20 World Cup: Not fielding however lack of good cricket price India vs South Africa, says Sunil Gavaskar

T20 World Cup 2022: Batting nice Sunil Gavaskar, chatting with India Today, mentioned India batters wanted to point out extra sport consciousness once they got here up towards a fiery South African bowling assault on a pace-rich pitch in Perth on Sunday, October 30.

India paid value for lack of good cricket vs South Africa: Sunil Gavaskar (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Legendary India batter Sunil Gavaskar on Sunday mentioned India paid the value for lack of good strategy, particularly of their batting, and performed down the impression of peculiar fielding of their 5-wicket defeat to South Africa in Perth. India didn’t defend 133 to succumb to their first defeat within the Super 12 stage of T20 World Cup 2022.

India captain Rohit Sharma conceded that the staff was poor on the sphere and that is an are of the sport the place they want enchancment. Notably, Virat Kohli dropped a sitter within the twelfth over of India’s defence, handing Aiden Markram a reprieve. Rohit Sharma then missed an easy run-out likelihood to dismiss Markram within the following over.

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Markram, who was handed a reprieve on 35, went on to hit a match-winning 52, stitching a 76-run stand with David Miller. South Africa recovered from 24 for 3 to as Miller and Markram put immense stress on the Indian fielders with their working between the wickets.

“I think, in cricket, you are going to have situations where catches are going to be dropped, run-out opportunities missed. What you really going to see is that we didn’t score enough runs. On a pitch like this where there is going to be a little bit of a challenge for battes, I think you have got to play it smartly. I don’t think we played smart enough cricket because if you had played smart cricket, we would have had a 150 on the board,” he added.

KARTHIK, HOODA GUILTY?

As Sunil Gavaskar identified, India paid the value for an peculiar batting show. Suryakumar Yadav hit a shocking 40-ball 68, scoring greater than half of India’s complete after the massive weapons, together with captain Rohit and Kohli, didn’t get going.

Lungi Ngidi tore into India’s top-order, dismissing Rohit, KL Rahul, Kohli and Hardik Pandya whereas Deepak Hooda, who was included within the XI rather than Axar Patel, threw his wicket away for 0 whereas making an attempt to assault Anrich Nortje. India slipped to 49 for five earlier than Suryakumar stitched a 52-run stand with Dinesh Karthik.

However, Karthik performed a shot that he might have averted within the sixteenth over, falling for six off 15 deliveries, placing the stress on his companion Suryakumar.

“For example, some of the dismissals that we saw show that they were perhaps concerned about the pace and bounce on the pitch and therefore trying to do something different. But it was difficult to do something different against a quality attack,” Gavaskar mentioned.

“I have been stressing about playing an extra batter but Deepak Hooda tried to attack in his 3rd delivery when he had Suryakumar Yadav at the other end. He had to play smart cricket.

“Similarly, I believe, Karthik getting out at that stage. I’m not blaming them, I’m saying typically saying that aside from Suryakumar Yadav, no person performed the sort of cricket with the expertise that that they had that may have helped us get these 15-20 runs extra,” he added.

Despite the loss to South Africa, India’s chances of reaching the semi-finals remain intact. The Asian giants next face Bangladesh on November 2 in Adelaide and Zimbabwe on November 6 in Melbourne and Gavaskar says India can’t take their next two opponents lightly.

“Yes, let’s not press the panic button in any respect. We have 4 factors and a couple of matches to go. 2 matches towards opponents we must always be capable to win. You ought to by no means taken any staff evenly, Bangladesh have given us a run for the cash in T20Is. So we have now to watch out towards them, even Zimbabwe, the best way they’ve performed on this World Cup, we have now to watch out,” Gavaskar mentioned.

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Oct 30, 2022