Team India succumbed to pressure
Arise Asia Cup failed to evince much interest for Team India as the home team could not make easy meat of the ultimate winner Sri Lanka and the runner up Pakistan. We were expecting that everything will come India's way and waited up to the last over and the last over turned out to be a disastrous one as the so called young team could not stand up to the tension and succumb in the end. Tactical error by skipper Virat Kohli cost us the game against Sri Lanka and the same complacency put paid our hopes against Pakistan also. As a matter of fact, Afridi was fed with medium fast bowling, a mediocre spin attack and lackadaisical fielding to support the bowlers. Playing pathetic cricket Indian batsmen struck around for some time but wasted number of balls and that made all the difference in the end. To compensate the weakness in the side, we should have pressed the option of playing with a pinch hitter upfront to boost the scoring rate. We waited for things to happen and that never happened in the end and the early exist from Asia cup followed.
Senior Pros Afridi, Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardne all played timely knocks to help their sides to come out trumps whereas we do not have a match winner in the side despite having ICC no 1 ranked player Virat Kohli. Captain did not come up to the expectation with the bat and his captaincy did not evince much interest. In the end Team India capitulated and could not get past the first hurdle in a poor light.
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