MS Dhoni not entirely happy with India’s performance against Afghanistan – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World T20 2012, and urged his men to improve their game if they want to compete in the tournament.
The Men in Blue, because of their extra-ordinary batting line-up, entered the event as one of the firm-favourites; however, India looked shaky in their first encounter against the minnows, winning by merely 23 runs.
Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bowl first at Colombo, which turned out to be a right decision as the Indian openers were sent back to the pavilion very cheaply. However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 made sure that their side posted a competitive
total of 159 runs on the board.
Despite a spirited response by the underdogs, they were bowled out for 136 runs, courtesy of some tight bowling from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228.
While expressing his views during the presentation ceremony, the Indian skipper said that the T20 format narrows down the difference between teams. The wicketkeeper/batsman was not entirely satisfied with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750’s performance and understands that his men
will have to eradicate their flaws, if they have any chance of regaining the World T20 title.
"This format balances both teams, if one of the opposition batsman or bowler have a great day, it could change the result,” said Dhoni. “A good performance but not a great performance from us. There are a lot of areas we have to improve on to be honest.”
India’s next match is scheduled to be played on September 23rd against the defending champions, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
Afghan captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nawroz-Mangal-c2084, on the other hand, feels that his team made a number of mistakes in the match, which led to their downfall. However, the top-order batsman is not too disappointed and thinks that the bowlers did a reasonable job against one
of the world’s best batting line-ups.
Mangal expressed, "It was a good game for the boys, we could have done better, shot selection was a bit poor, that was why we have lost the game. We could have done better in the field, but we are satisfied we restricted the mighty Indian batting to 160."
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