Now that we have got our 4 semi finalists for this year's cricket world cup it's a good time to analyse and talk about the performance of team India and also to go deep down into questions like what we expected what happened and what to expect in the semi finals.
India entered this world cup as favorites and started its campaign against south africa which they won quite easily thanks to Rohit's brilliant 122* and then kept on winning every match until they encountered the hosts and their new away jersey with one match being washed off against New Zealand but still their run was good enough to keep them at the top of table at the end of league matches.
The only set back for India occurred when Shikhar got injured after scoring a match winning century against the most dominated team in world cups- Australia, though Rahul is doing well in the opening with Rohit to fill the void created therefore India got rid of their first problem .
Now coming to middle order Virat is doing what he is best known for by playing some important innings through the middle overs just the only thing he is struggling with is he is not able to convert his scores to a big number and our new no. 4 batsman another Delhi boy Rishabh Pant is doing just fine and then comes the most interesting part of this team, the finishers first lets talk about Hardik Pandya. He definitely is playing some good knocks but still if you observe his shot selection you can see that he is not mature enough for that role that's the reason we have Dhoni in our team, but the thing is people always find a way to criticize him even though at the end of the innings his S.R. is
always more than or near to 100 this is the thing that sometimes bother me. If we look at Dhoni's playing style he always started slow initially and hits the boundaries in few last overs i definitely agree that he is not playing the innings he is known for but the fact is he is 38 now it's not easy for him to be in same form as he was in his peak time even the Sachin took a lot of innings to score his 100th century against Bangladesh and we even lose the match and his strike rate was even below 80. And if at the end of the day in a pressure game like world cup if we are winning the match than it doesn't matter if Dhoni played with the sr of 70 or of 120 because at the end of the day in a world cup match what matter the most is who won that particular match.
Now talking about our our bowling which is one of the best bowling lineup because in every other team either they have good pacers or they have good spinners but india is the only team with good pace attack with bowlers like Bumrah and a nice pair of kul-cha for the middle overs and the best part is our all rounder Pandya can now bowl all his 10 overs anyhow for which he was struggling before that's the reason that bowling is not concern anymore and so is the fielding, India has the lowest catch drop percentage in the world cup so far.
Now in the semis India is going against New zealand which has shown some good play so far in the tournament too although they found themselves little stuttering in their last 3 games with but still their excellent bowling performance by Boult and Fergueson & a few match winning knocks by their captain Kane Williamson made sure that they reach the semi final. So the way to tackle them is to
make sure that Williamson and Taylor doesn't remain at the crease for long and it will be easy for India to break their opening stand because none of their opener has performed so far in the league stages but still if their opening partnership goes good then they have a deep batting lineup that can capitalize to that and can put India under pressure easily with a big total.We have to keep on getting 1-2 wickets every 10 overs in order keep the momentum with us and we definitely got good bowlers to do that and as far as batting is concerned we can expect some good knocks from our inform batsmen Rohit and Kohli just like every match we just need to make sure that if we are chasing we need atleast one of them to play till the 35-40 over otherwise it can put pressure on our middle order batsman and New zealand bowlers are good enough to take advantage of the situation from there.
India entered this world cup as favorites and started its campaign against south africa which they won quite easily thanks to Rohit's brilliant 122* and then kept on winning every match until they encountered the hosts and their new away jersey with one match being washed off against New Zealand but still their run was good enough to keep them at the top of table at the end of league matches.
The only set back for India occurred when Shikhar got injured after scoring a match winning century against the most dominated team in world cups- Australia, though Rahul is doing well in the opening with Rohit to fill the void created therefore India got rid of their first problem .
Now coming to middle order Virat is doing what he is best known for by playing some important innings through the middle overs just the only thing he is struggling with is he is not able to convert his scores to a big number and our new no. 4 batsman another Delhi boy Rishabh Pant is doing just fine and then comes the most interesting part of this team, the finishers first lets talk about Hardik Pandya. He definitely is playing some good knocks but still if you observe his shot selection you can see that he is not mature enough for that role that's the reason we have Dhoni in our team, but the thing is people always find a way to criticize him even though at the end of the innings his S.R. is
always more than or near to 100 this is the thing that sometimes bother me. If we look at Dhoni's playing style he always started slow initially and hits the boundaries in few last overs i definitely agree that he is not playing the innings he is known for but the fact is he is 38 now it's not easy for him to be in same form as he was in his peak time even the Sachin took a lot of innings to score his 100th century against Bangladesh and we even lose the match and his strike rate was even below 80. And if at the end of the day in a pressure game like world cup if we are winning the match than it doesn't matter if Dhoni played with the sr of 70 or of 120 because at the end of the day in a world cup match what matter the most is who won that particular match.
Now talking about our our bowling which is one of the best bowling lineup because in every other team either they have good pacers or they have good spinners but india is the only team with good pace attack with bowlers like Bumrah and a nice pair of kul-cha for the middle overs and the best part is our all rounder Pandya can now bowl all his 10 overs anyhow for which he was struggling before that's the reason that bowling is not concern anymore and so is the fielding, India has the lowest catch drop percentage in the world cup so far.
Now in the semis India is going against New zealand which has shown some good play so far in the tournament too although they found themselves little stuttering in their last 3 games with but still their excellent bowling performance by Boult and Fergueson & a few match winning knocks by their captain Kane Williamson made sure that they reach the semi final. So the way to tackle them is to
make sure that Williamson and Taylor doesn't remain at the crease for long and it will be easy for India to break their opening stand because none of their opener has performed so far in the league stages but still if their opening partnership goes good then they have a deep batting lineup that can capitalize to that and can put India under pressure easily with a big total.We have to keep on getting 1-2 wickets every 10 overs in order keep the momentum with us and we definitely got good bowlers to do that and as far as batting is concerned we can expect some good knocks from our inform batsmen Rohit and Kohli just like every match we just need to make sure that if we are chasing we need atleast one of them to play till the 35-40 over otherwise it can put pressure on our middle order batsman and New zealand bowlers are good enough to take advantage of the situation from there.
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