Senior all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja says it is unfair to judge the current Indian team on the basis of one or two losses after three consecutive years at home and abroad. Jadeja, who was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ for his 3 for 15 against Scotland, was asked in reference to his captain Virat Kohli’s claim that the team was “brave enough” during their second game against New Zealand. “No, which they lost. by eight wickets.
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“If you look at it this way, in the last two to three years, we have played some really good cricket, be it in India or abroad. So it is not fair to judge us on the basis of one or two matches. About those losses. You have to move on and think about the opportunities ahead. We will take positivity from those two games and try to play well in future games.”
India played three specialist spinners that day but Jadeja said their role was the same as it has been for years now. “That was my role. I looked like taking wickets in the middle overs and bowling generally. Just because we were playing Scotland, there was no change in plans. It was a simple basic plan. Look to bowl in good areas and let the wicket do the rest.” He admitted that in the ongoing T20 World Cup, the dew has become a game-changer and often the same team that looks distracted while batting in the first innings , looking like a different team while batting the other. Friday night had a case in point as India’s chase of 86 runs in just 6.3 overs.
“In the first innings of these games, the ball is stalling and catching a bit off the surface. If you bat in the second innings, the dew flattens the track and the batsmen find it very easy. “When you are batting first on these pitches, we don’t get the starts we are used to and when the starts are bad it becomes difficult to come back in the middle overs. For him, winning the toss becomes important and then you can opt to bat.” Even after two losses and staring at the exit door, the Indian team did not press the panic button, its senior member said.
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“We didn’t press the panic button because as I said earlier, you will have some bad matches in T20s and especially in these circumstances the toss has become important, the base dew is becoming a game-changer. If the team batting first in one game chases in another, you can see the difference, “The dew looks as if the team batting first is playing on a different surface as the chasing team. ” He ended the press conference on a cheeky note when a journalist asked, “What if New Zealand beat Afghanistan? What would you do?” “Then we will pack our bags and go home. What’s left then,” he smiled.
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