Former India opener Aakash Chopra has criticised the team’s bowling performance after they suffered defeat against the West Indies in the fourth T20 in Hyderabad on Wednesday. He questioned the bowler’s limited use of slow deliveries. The West Indies scored a huge 247/3, supported by Shai Hope ‘s century. India fought back but managed only 223/9 in 19.3 overs, leaving the five match series level at 2-2 Speaking on his YouTube channel, Chopra described India’s bowling as ordinary and pointed out how the West Indies used variations to trouble the Indian batters during their innings.
Former India opener Aakash Chopra has criticised the team’s bowling performance after they suffered defeat against the West Indies in the fourth T20 in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
“The bowling was ordinary. It seemed like the pitch was flat when the Indian team was bowling. We bowled only around nine slower ones, which was not right. We were also serving full tosses. However, Keemo Paul ‘s five wickets helped West Indies win the match. Sanju started destroying at the start here. Sanju likes this ground a lot. He had once hit five sixes in a Rishad Hossain over. “Here also, when he scored a fifty, he was hitting so much that Abhishek Sharma was standing at the other end and asking Sanju to let him bat. Sanju batted incredibly well. He got out, and Ishan Kishan got out soon after that. Even after that, whether it was Tilak Varma or Nitish Kumar Reddy, or Abhishek Sharma’s short knock, it seemed like we might come back into the game, but Keemo Paul’s five wickets changed the game,” Chopra added.
Because the West Indies bowled a lot of into-the-pitch slower ones, which we didn’t do, it seemed like something started happening on the pitch when India came to bat. Our bowling was actually quite ordinary, and the West Indies made the most of it, thrashed us a lot, and reached close to 250,” Chopra said.. In the same Youtube video, Chopra discussed India’s chase and also praising Sanju Samson ‘s aggressive 56 off 23 balls. “If nearly 250 are scored, they aren’t chased easily, although the West Indies did that job in Ranchi, but there was a lot of dew there.
He had scored a hundred then,” he said.
