Last evening's T20 between India & SL was highly entertaining and had a thrilling finish with Pathan brothers' showing their talent and might to the world. India looked down for the count at one stage and SL win was looking like a formality and then Pathan bros' weaved their magic. Both played very sensibly and took calculated risks and at the end India looked like comfortable winner.
In hindsight, one can question Dilshan not employing Jayasuriya who was bowling well but the fact is that he made the right decision to move towards medium pacers knowing Yusuf can hit any spinner out of the park. Bandara was doing well with 3/15 in 3 overs before he came up against Yusuf who hit him for 16 in 4 balls out of a total of 22 that he scored. Jayasuriya could easily have got the same treatment. Against seamers, it was Irfan who hit most of the big shots for which Dilshan had no counter-plan.
This win shows Indian team has become mentally tough and can pull itself from any situation. Any team would have given up at the stage when 57 runs were required off 29 balls and only three wickets remaining.
But one would also question how did this team get into that situation at the first place. Raina and Dhoni were doing well and asking rate was not too much and then with some silly shots from them, we reached a difficult situation. Dhoni also needs to think about the batting order. In the current circumstances, it was strange to see Yusuf coming after Rohit and Jadeja. If he wants to give Rohit more chances, he could have been sent at #3 so that he could have settled down and played a longer inning.
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