Virender Sehwag reprimands Indian batsmen for tumultuous march towards win – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, held at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack yesterday, November 29, 2011.
During the post-match presentation ceremony, Sehwag criticised his top-order including himself for poor shot selection and pathetic collapse. He was of the view that such a shoddy batting show was not acceptable on the Indian pitches which gave extra support
to the clean hitters.
He said, “In India you hardly see the team tottering at 59/5. Our batsmen made mistakes. There were three soft dismissals of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539. We have to bat really well in coming games. There is no excuse for anybody to not
scoring runs.”
However, the acting captaining reiterated that the Men in Blue would learn from their mistakes and play the next game with a calculated batting strategy.
He told, "We have to learn from our mistakes. ope we will come up with strong batting performance in next games.”
Sehwag heaped praise on the sole architect of the Indian victory, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309, who lashed 72 runs off 99 balls with the help of 3 fours and 1 six.
“Rohit is one of the talented batsmen. He is improving match by match. He is proving himself. He is one of the best,” stated the skipper.
Yesterday’s clash was packed with thrill and twists. Winning the toss, the home side elected to bowl first. The Windies posted a meager total of 211 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. In turn, the World Champions collapsed suddenly after taking a good start,
losing top 5 wickets for just 59. Sharma and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RA-Jadeja-c2238 struggled for victory to their potential.
Chasing down the target in 49th over, the Blue Shirts walked away with a hard-earned 1-wicket win.
Sehwag, who contributed 20 runs including 3 boundaries, was not happy with the situation. In the end, he warned his batsmen that no excuse would be acceptable for not scoring well in remaining four games of the series.
The 33-year-old played his 237th ODI last night. He has 7780 One-day runs to his credit.
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