It required quite a lot of psychological fortitude to come back again with an attacking mindset lower than 72 hours after being clobbered, mentioned spinner Axar Patel, who arrange India’s sequence win in opposition to Australia with figures of three/16 within the fourth T20I right here on Friday.
India have now taken an unassailable 3-1 lead within the five-match sequence.
Axar, who was hit for 22 runs within the penultimate over of the third T20I in Guwahati the place India had did not defend 222, was the chief architect in protection of a a lot lesser 174 for 9 within the fourth sport.
“To stay attacking and be mentally strong is important as there is every chance to get hit in this format. When you go with an attitude to pick wickets, will feel much better,” Axar mentioned on the post-match presentation ceremony.
While there wasn’t as a lot dew because it was at Barsapara the opposite evening, Axar used his tried and examined components of pitching it on the three sticks.
“I tried to stick to my strengths and wasn’t really bothered even I had gotten hit and bowling stump-to-stump was the key to negate the dew factor.”
Axar missed out on the ODI World Cup after sustaining a hamstring harm throughout the Asia Cup and made a comeback for this sequence after intensive rehabilitation.
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“I was trying a lot of things when I was at home and it came out well today. During the (injury) break I focussed on improving myself and add new variations to my bowling to remain successful at the highest level.”
Skipper Suryakumar Yadav was additionally very blissful that he was in a position to extract one of the best from his senior spinner. “I always love putting Axar under pressure and the way he bowled was unbelievable. Other than toss, everything (went well),” he mentioned with a chuckle.
“The boys showed character and that was most important for us. We spoke in the meeting before the game to go out and express yourself and be fearless.” He was additionally blissful that Avesh Khan and Mukesh Kumar might nail the block-hole deliveries on the day.
“The plan (during the death overs) was to go for the yorkers and then see what happens.”
Australian skipper Matthew Wade termed this sequence a studying curve for subsequent yr’s T20 World Cup.
“We just didn’t play spin very well, lost a few little too wickets in the middle as well. The guys came in did a good job but unfortunately we couldn’t do the job with the bat.
“Just to continue to learn from the guys who are already established in the team and to have depth in the squad is really key as the T20 World Cup is round the corner.”
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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