WI vs IND: Hardik Pandya accepts blame after India lose decider towards West Indies

India captain Hardik Pandya has accepted blame after his facet misplaced the decider towards West Indies on Florida on 13 August, Sunday. Playing at Lauderhill, India didn’t defend a goal of 166 runs within the closing T20I of the 5-match collection. After posting a below-par complete, India weren’t capable of include Brandon King and Nicholas Pooran, who dealt with the vast majority of the workload within the second innings of the sport.

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Speaking within the post-match presentation, Pandya stated that he didn’t ship with the bat and that modified the complexion of the sport, and tilted the scales in direction of West Indies within the closing match of the collection. Pandya batted 18 balls and obtained out after scoring simply 14 runs within the seventeenth over of the sport. He hit his first and solely six within the sixteenth ball of his innings.

“If you see we lost that period post the ten overs. I came there, took my time, and was not able to capitalize. I think the boys played well but I failed to play accordingly at that point in time,” Hardik stated after the match.

India did begin brightly within the second innings with Arshdeep Singh choosing up the wicket of opener Kyle Mayers, however that was about it as Windies dominated with the bat from there on. With rain looming across the nook all through the second innings of the match, India captain Hardik Pandya tried to bowl out his pacers early within the recreation, a transfer that didn’t repay in any respect.

Pandya didn’t bowl Axar Patel within the first 10 overs of the match with Nicholas Pooran within the crease, however that didn’t cease West Indies from dominating the proceedings. Both King and Pooran performed out the principle risk – Kuldeep Yadav watchfully and attacked the remainder of the bowlers.

A prolonged delay broke the stream of the sport within the thirteenth over. The restart noticed Pooran getting dismissed by Tilak Varma, however returning Shai Hope was greater than adequate to clinch a dominating victory within the decider.

“All these games are the games where you are going to challenge ourselves. In the hindsight, one series here and there is fine. It is a longer process which I don’t need to explain much. The boys are trying to commit themselves well and I think that is going well,” Hardik stated about the long run plan.

“I mean it’s a long way now [the T20 World CUp 2024]. The next is the ODI world cup. Losing is good sometimes. It teaches you a lot of things. It does not cover up the messes,” the Indian captain stated.

This was the primary time that India misplaced a T20I collection below the captaincy of Hardik Pandya. It was additionally the primary time in 6 years that West Indies defeated India in a T20I collection.

Edited By:

Kingshuk Kusari

Published On:

Aug 14, 2023