Hardik Pandya’s batting all the time places “India in an excellent stead”, skipper Rohit Sharma reiterated the flexibility of his staff’s greatest ‘X-Issue’ in white-ball cricket after his fifty in opposition to Bangladesh all however put ‘Males in Blue’ into the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. Pandya, who scored the primary half-century by an Indian No. 6 in a T20 World Cup recreation, additionally took a wicket within the staff’s 50-run Tremendous 8s win in opposition to Bangladesh right here on Saturday. Pandya has thus far scored 89 runs in three innings with a strike-rate of 141, moreover taking eight wickets.
“I discussed within the final recreation as properly, his batting properly places us in an excellent stead. We need to end properly and Hardik being Hardik we all know what he’s able to,” Rohit mentioned on the post-match presentation ceremony.
“He’s a vital participant for us, if he can preserve doing that, it would put us in good positions,” mentioned the skipper.
On the day, Indian batters additionally confirmed extra intent and there have been quickfire 30s from three batters — Virat Kohli (37), Rishabh Pant (36) and Shivam Dube (34). The skipper himself set the tone with 23 off 11 balls.
“I’ve been speaking about this for a very long time now. It is about going there and placing that into work. Contemplating the whole lot we performed very well, tailored to the circumstances,” he mentioned.
“All eight batters must play their position, no matter it’s. We noticed one man get 50 and we acquired 197, in T20 I do not imagine we have to get fifties and a whole bunch, what issues is the strain you placed on the bowlers.
“All of the batters from the phrase go performed properly and that is how we need to play as properly. There’s a number of expertise within the squad and we again them,” he mentioned concerning the good execution of the sport plan.
He did admit that breeze is a consider many of the Caribbean islands.
“There’s just a little little bit of wind issue right here, total we’re very good, total we have been good with bat and ball.” Bangladesh skipper Najmul Hossain Shanto felt that his staff gave away at the least 30 runs greater than what may have been the par-score.
“We have been eager about 160-170 after we put them into bat, however they batted properly so credit score to them.” He admitted that the staff did not present required intent.
“We didn’t present as a lot intent as we would have liked with the bat, after we have been chasing 190, we would have liked to indicate extra intent particularly within the first six (overs).”
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