'Explosive cricket' not India's style - Kohli

[TNAmarkFrmIndia]

Until the final ten overs began, India were scoring at a run-rate of about five an over despite Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma giving them a solid opening with a 138-run stand in the first 25 overs. Against Pakistan, it had been a similar storyline, but the big difference was Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya providing them a robust ending with their powerhitting.

 

Today, all three of those batsmen failed, and despite MS Dhoni bringing forth his best finishing skills, India seemed at least 20 runs short.

 

Virat Kohli, however, disagreed with such thinking. India, Kohli pointed out, do not play the "explosive" brand of cricket through the middle overs that teams such as England have made a trademark. Instead, he simply felt that Sri Lanka's basmen had been too good on the day.

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I think batting did really well. We obviously have to consolidate and then explode in the end, and that's the way we always play.

We don't - we are not a side that always plays explosive cricket throughout the 50 overs, but if a side comes out here and plays cricket with that kind of mindset and executes their shots so well, then you have to take your hat off sometimes and say very well played.

I thought we paced it well. I thought we had enough on the board. In hindsight, when you look back, maybe you think of phases that we could have accelerated, but I don't see that as a major issue.

Maybe we will have to push harder now in the next few games to give us a 20-run cushion. Maybe after seeing a result like this, because we're playing on the same ground as well.

 

Edited June 9, 2017 by TNAmarkFrmIndia

[kira]

This loss might be a blessing in disguise if kohli realizes that we can't afford to put par totals anymore

[Ankit_sharma03]

Thats the last thing i wanted to hear, If u dont then please start to as scores have reached to a diff level

Add players like pant to lineup to add that ex-factor , please drop likes of rahane 

[kubrickian]

If you dont play explosive cricket, get out of the kitchen and let someone else handle it. Our batting approach has been conservative to say the least in the recent past and hence lost ODI series in Australia, against SA at home and even against BD. We need some changes in our team and mindset as well.

[WC2011INDIA]

Now I am convinced that this team is full of phateechars. So called good odi batsmen are also pathetic. sharmas, dhawans, kohlis, dhoni, Rahane, etc

I want a brand new team full of youngsters to take over from this bunch.

Edited June 9, 2017 by beetle

[sandeep]

Didn't we just have a 100 post thread to discuss the exact same thing?  

 

 

[Gollum]

If that is the case come back home Team India. Let teams who understand modern day T50 cricket fight it out.

[Ultimate_Game]

The more I see and hear Kohli while captaining India in shorter formats, the more I feel India is going backwards. Fielding standards are going down, India is not playing cutting edge cricket the way it used to and this "head buried in the sand" attitude with backing of the likes of Rahane seems to point in that direction.

 

India should be looking at England as the template and we've seen in IPL that we do have the players who fit that mould. Now it's up to Kohli and the selectors to move forwards instead of playing an outdated game.

[tweaker]

Kohli its seems does not want to identify the main problem.He is backing some players & he knows fault lies with them

[wanted_desi]

He knows Sharmas and Rahanes can never start with SR above 100, and Dhoni is shadow of himself. Yuvraj is too old and if someone doesn't feed to his strength, he can't move on. 

[Yoda-esque]

Rohit needs to change his batting style,this 80s padosi style of tuk tuk aint going to cut it..

 

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[Pollack]

Kohli: We don't - we are not a side that always plays explosive cricket throughout the 50 overs, but if a side comes out here and plays cricket with that kind of mindset and executes their shots so well, then you have to take your hat off sometimes and say very well played

 

 Not sometimes you will have to take your hats off many times if such is attitude.

       If current team cannot play explosive cricket then pick one which can. 

[Austin 3:!6]

Kohli should have said something like this: "Try to play the ball towards third man even with a slip in place and end up edging it to keeper is my style of play"

 

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[tweaker]

The Selectors should bring young players like Pant,Rana, Shreyas, & should give them enough confidence.We may have one of the most explosive side in the world cricket.

 

Hope this starts with Windies series

[Khota]

I blame Kohli and only Kohli for this loss. The bad team was on him, sub par total was on him and he wants an input on the selection of coach and that was on him. I think he needs to be made captain of only one format. Too much power in one mans hand.

[Rasgulla]

Its all part of Kohli's process 

 

Sher ka bacha will do anything to protect his sharma on top

[Austin 3:!6]

I blame Kohli and only Kohli for this loss. The bad team was on him, sub par total was on him and he wants an input on the selection of coach and that was on him. I think he needs to be made captain of only one format. Too much power in one mans hand.

 

What Kohli should have done which he didnt as per you? I dnt think just blaming Kohli for the loss is fair. 320 is a decent enough total and most of the time you would back to defend it against Lanka (who few days ago lost to Scotland). I was at the stadium yesterday and it was one of those days when nothing was working for us in the field. Even with overcast cold conditions...the ball was not moving an inch. Perhaps the bowlers should have tried change of pace cutters which they didnt. Kohli as a skipper tried all...bowling part timers, keeping slips nothing worked. The only minute thing we can point out is when that 1st run out happened and a new batsman came...he should have brought his main bowlerd instead of continuing with Jadhav and himself.

 

Lanka was good yesterday. Thats all about it.

 

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[rkt.india]

Kohli's mentality and batting approach is rubbing on others too.

[Forever Indian]

Who is asking the team to be explosive? It is okay to got at 5 RPO in first 10, but after that with wickets in hand we should be going at 6 RPO till 35th over. Even with wickets in hand and on a flat deck if you continue to go at 5 or 5.2 RPO through that period, that means you are batting way too conservatively.

[BeautifulGame]

That is a defeatist attitude .Just don't like it.