India captain Virat Kohli has revealed why he despatched Suryakumar Yadav forward of him at quantity 3 within the chase towards Namibia on Monday in Dubai, the place India emerged victorious by 9 wickets, chasing down 133 to cap off their marketing campaign with three straight wins.
Suryakumar got here out after the autumn of opener Rohit Sharma’s wicket with 47 runs required off 61 balls. The right-hander smashed 4 boundaries to attain 25 runs from 19 balls and remained unbeaten until the facet was over the road. Virat Kohli remained padded up and helmet on within the dugout and didn’t get to bat in his final T20I as a captain.
He highlighted that Yadav hadn’t bought a lot recreation time enjoying in his first T20 World Cup and sending him to over himself was to present Yadav “a nice memory” to take again from what has been India’s earliest exit – earlier than the knockouts – in an ICC occasion since 2012.
“Surya didn’t get much time in the campaign. It’s a T20 World Cup and I thought it might be a nice memory of him to take back. As a youngster, you want to take back some good. So that was the plan,” Virat Kohli mentioned on the post-match presentation.
Suryakumar had performed two innings earlier than this recreation: he scored 11 runs of 8 balls versus Pakistan and 6* off 2 balls towards Scotland.
We haven’t bought the outcomes right here however we’ve performed some actually good cricket: Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli felt India have “played some really good cricket” within the final three matches the place they registered thumping victories over Afghanistan, Scotland, and Namibia, after two embarrassing losses to Pakistan and New Zealand, whereby the gamers “weren’t brave enough”.
“I know we haven’t got the results here but we have played some really good cricket. The guys have really made my work easier. The way we played the last three games, it’s a game of margins – T20 cricket these days. Two overs of attacking cricket at the top is what we were missing in the first two games. As I said, we weren’t brave enough in those games and in the group we were in, it was tough,” he added.
This additionally marks the top of the tenure of head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar.
India host New Zealand for a 3-T20I collection from November 17 underneath a brand new captain, who’s but to be introduced, and a brand new coach, Rahul Dravid. Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami are prone to be rested for that collection.
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Source: Panapanahon News
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