Best Wishes for the team India,Men in Blue for registering a good win against South Africa in their first game. However, there needs some improvements/corrections from this game going forward.
This is a very long tournament and with pattern of CWC1992.Each of the 10 teams play each other once,which means 9 games per team in the league with top4 qualifiying for Semis. Hence along with wins , the net run rate could play a major factor at the end.
Coming to this game, India bowled well for almost 40 overs and let the lower order batsmen score runs and put 227 on board. Ideally when the opposition is 7 down for 160 odd, we should be restricting them to 200-210.
And on the other hand in batting, a slow start,coupled with losing Shikar and Virat for low scores needs to be seen. They should be careful and come back to their natural way of scoring runs. On English wickets these 2 has good record in white ball cricket and hence that has to come back.
Rohit scored a match winning Ton,however he got a life when Faf dropped him off Rabada. Every match he may not get such let offs and hence a postive approach and no loose shot shall be the key thing going further and next game is against Australia and a win against them will give boost of morale and confidence going deep into the tournament.
Rahul,MSD had good starts but threw away their wickets. For a low scoring game its not an issue,however when we end up chasing 300 plus or need to set 300 plus target to the opposition,these throwing away of wickets will dent the chances.
Overall its a decent match for India,with bowling brilliance and capitalising the let off by Rohit ,building up partnerships and winning the game for India. Lets hope the Men in Blue continue their winning ways.
Sukumar Radrapu
