Asia Cup defeats have taught us a lot: Rohit Sharma
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Dubai , dated 7
The Indian team, which emerged as super champions in the bilateral series, has almost been eliminated in the Super Four of the Asia Cup T20 with defeats against Pakistan and Sri Lanka. When the T20 World Cup is less than a month and a half away , this defeat was becoming a reality check for Team India. After the defeat against Sri Lanka, Captain Rohit Sharma openly confessed to the media that our team is 90-95 percent settled. However, we still have some questions to be answered. We learned a lot from these humiliating defeats in the Asia Cup.
India played in the Asia Cup in the absence of regular star bowlers Bumrah and Harshal Patel. India suffered a blow during the tournament when Jadeja was injured and Avesh fell ill. In such a situation India had only two specialist fast bowlers Bhuvneshwar and Arshaddeep. The lack of international experience of Avesh and Arshdeep was evident in the tournament.
Rohit said that our team is 90-95 percent settled. There will be some changes. We wanted to see what happens if we play four specialist bowlers ? As the third spinner, we gave an opportunity to an all-rounder. We are preparing for the World Cup and it is challenging for a team. After Hardik's comeback we are playing with 3 fast bowlers and two spinners. Significantly, in the two matches that India lost in Dubai, the toss was also lost , which also contributed greatly to the team's defeat.
About not bowling to Hooda
After being included in the squad as an all-rounder, Deepak Hooda was dropped to number seven and was not allowed to bowl. About which Rohit said that both the Sri Lankan openers were right-handed and had already been set on the pitch. Our aim was to hand over the ball to the attacking spinners Ashwin-Chahal and take wickets. If the wicket had fallen early, I would have bowled to Hooda.
On the issue of not playing Dinesh Karthik
Stating that the decision not to play Dinesh Karthik was strategic , Rohit said , " We wanted a left-handed batsman in the middle order and that's why Dinesh Karthik was kept out. He was not dropped because of poor form.
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