India spinner Kuldeep Yadav said the first 10 overs in a One-Day International are crucial in any game. Yadav, who picked up two wickets for 46 runs in his 10 overs, ket the Australian batsmen in check and sent back Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb.
Kuldeep Yadav
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The chinaman bowler said he realized after two overs that the wicket was slow. “I tried to bowl slower. Handscomb wicket was very special. If you have three-four variations then it is difficult to choose one. I am sticking with my chinaman delivery more often and bowling the wrong one occasionally,” he explained.
After losing the toss, captain Virat Kohli said he would have bowled first if he had won the toss. “We have done well chasing a lot in ODIs. And we wanted to back our strengths. This surface is going to be hard and it will be good to bat on. We want to continue what we did in New Zealand and Australia. Our intensity was top-notch and that’s exactly we need here,” he said.
He was a bit concerned about the middle-order and during this match it looked he got an answer to that too. “A couple of things we need to work on in our middle-order. We want to up the scoring rate more in the middle overs. We are pretty balanced as a side. We are giving Chahal a break today so Jadeja comes in. We will rotate our wrist spinners. Rest, we have the same combination of 2 fast bowlers, Vijay Shankar and Ravindra Jadeja to provide us the balance and give us depth in batting. Our top-order is same as we played in New Zealand,” he added.
“First 10 overs are very crucial. Jasprit and Shami bowled really well,” Kuldeep said, “They gave 25 runs in 8 overs and one wicket. I am coming back from the break of 20 days, so I took time to get back the rhythm. This wicket is very slow and I wanted to mix up my variations,” he said.
The chinaman bowler said he realized after two overs that the wicket was slow. “I tried to bowl slower. Handscomb wicket was very special. If you have three-four variations then it is difficult to choose one. I am sticking with my chinaman delivery more often and bowling the wrong one occasionally,” he explained.
After losing the toss, captain Virat Kohli said he would have bowled first if he had won the toss. “We have done well chasing a lot in ODIs. And we wanted to back our strengths. This surface is going to be hard and it will be good to bat on. We want to continue what we did in New Zealand and Australia. Our intensity was top-notch and that’s exactly we need here,” he said.
He was a bit concerned about the middle-order and during this match it looked he got an answer to that too. “A couple of things we need to work on in our middle-order. We want to up the scoring rate more in the middle overs. We are pretty balanced as a side. We are giving Chahal a break today so Jadeja comes in. We will rotate our wrist spinners. Rest, we have the same combination of 2 fast bowlers, Vijay Shankar and Ravindra Jadeja to provide us the balance and give us depth in batting. Our top-order is same as we played in New Zealand,” he added.