NEW DELHI: Former cricketer turned commentator Sanjay Manjrekar feels Australia beautifully exploited ‘little chinks’ in India’s batting line-up within the World Cup last to safe a record-extending sixth title.
The absence of all-rounder Hardik Pandya highlighted a big ‘lack of depth’ in India’s batting throughout the last in Ahmedabad final Sunday.India faltered, dropping half their aspect throughout the thirty sixth over, finally attending to a modest 241 within the summit conflict.
“India felt the stress of not having depth; you already know, these little chinks in India’s armour got here to the fore,” Manjrekar advised Star Sports activities.
Pandya pulled out of the event following a twisted ankle in India’s fourth league match towards Bangladesh as India have been compelled to ring in two modifications — Suryakumar Yadav and Mohammed Shami — for his or her remaining matches.
Whereas Shami’s inclusion was an enormous enhance to the bowling assault, Suryakumar continued to have a woeful present within the ODI format. Suryakumar managed simply 106 runs in seven innings at a mean of 17.67 and a strike-rate of 100.95.
“The batting depth wasn’t there, and also you noticed the way in which KL Rahul performed a bulk of the innings with the data that there is not a lot batting to return,” Manjrekar stated with out mentioning any title.
“Effectively, India had sure limitations that that they had lined superbly all through the event, with Jadeja at quantity 7 and their batting ending at quantity 6,” he added.
Manjrekar additional stated the stress of the ultimate had a component to play in India’s capitulation.
“Simply think about this sport was a league match between Sri Lanka and India; would India have taken that threat? Possibly sure, that’s the place maybe temperament is available in, and possibly, if it was a league match, India would have performed in another way,” he stated.
Former India allrounder Irfan Pathan stated it was robust for India as a result of the group was trying behind, completely trying behind to Jadeja and Suryakumar Yadav.
“And when KL Rahul received out, I believe that was the time when India could not simply go forward. I assumed as quickly as they knew that there was no cowl, no mid-off, they may have used their toes a bit extra and tried to rotate the strike and never enable guys like Travis Head to bowl these two overs crucially in between. Mitchell Marsh bowled one over as effectively.”
Irfan stated India misplaced to a better-planned sport.
The absence of all-rounder Hardik Pandya highlighted a big ‘lack of depth’ in India’s batting throughout the last in Ahmedabad final Sunday.India faltered, dropping half their aspect throughout the thirty sixth over, finally attending to a modest 241 within the summit conflict.
“India felt the stress of not having depth; you already know, these little chinks in India’s armour got here to the fore,” Manjrekar advised Star Sports activities.
Pandya pulled out of the event following a twisted ankle in India’s fourth league match towards Bangladesh as India have been compelled to ring in two modifications — Suryakumar Yadav and Mohammed Shami — for his or her remaining matches.
Whereas Shami’s inclusion was an enormous enhance to the bowling assault, Suryakumar continued to have a woeful present within the ODI format. Suryakumar managed simply 106 runs in seven innings at a mean of 17.67 and a strike-rate of 100.95.
“The batting depth wasn’t there, and also you noticed the way in which KL Rahul performed a bulk of the innings with the data that there is not a lot batting to return,” Manjrekar stated with out mentioning any title.
“Effectively, India had sure limitations that that they had lined superbly all through the event, with Jadeja at quantity 7 and their batting ending at quantity 6,” he added.
Manjrekar additional stated the stress of the ultimate had a component to play in India’s capitulation.
“Simply think about this sport was a league match between Sri Lanka and India; would India have taken that threat? Possibly sure, that’s the place maybe temperament is available in, and possibly, if it was a league match, India would have performed in another way,” he stated.
Former India allrounder Irfan Pathan stated it was robust for India as a result of the group was trying behind, completely trying behind to Jadeja and Suryakumar Yadav.
“And when KL Rahul received out, I believe that was the time when India could not simply go forward. I assumed as quickly as they knew that there was no cowl, no mid-off, they may have used their toes a bit extra and tried to rotate the strike and never enable guys like Travis Head to bowl these two overs crucially in between. Mitchell Marsh bowled one over as effectively.”
Irfan stated India misplaced to a better-planned sport.
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“Australia was a better-planned group. The best way they deliberate, ranging from the toss, I do not assume every other group may come near that type of planning,” he added.
(With inputs from PTI)
