The India rapid claims that in St Lucia, the batsmen had to be wise to avoid" the wind to come into play."
If Rohit Sharma, the Player of the Match for his 41- game 92 in India's 24- run get over Australia in T20 World Cup 2024, had to "open up all sides of the area" to counter the winds in Gros Islet, Arshdeep Singh said the bowlers had to stop" the wind to come into play" to not let the Australia batters take advantage of it. In the final over, Arshdeep took the batsmen of big-hitters Tim David and Matthew Wade before taking the wickets of Arshdeep for 3 for 37.
" As a person and as a team, our tagline is to adjust as well as we can to the parameters", Arshdeep said after the match. " As for the storm aspect, when we bowled from the end opposite to the palace, we got a lot of jump. From the other end, bowling against the wind … the bowlers were going to use the storm since the game was travelling. So we had to look for defense selections there and not allow the wind to travel into play".
Josh Hazlewood, the most efficient bowler of the day with 1 for 14 from four innings, said that 180 or about would have been a line report in those circumstances, India ended with 25 more than that. Rohit was the main reason for that, but Suryakumar Yadav ( 31 off 16 balls ) and later Hardik Pandya ( 27* off 17 ) contributed to the cause too.
" From one finish, it was very difficult for the batsmen to also pitch the ball, and the game was flying to the boundary", Arshdeep said. " But having the seat of more 15- 20 runs usually helps, gives you the more liberty of going for wickets".
With his three wickets, Arshdeep reached the top of the pile for the tournament, joint with Afghanistan's Fazalhaq Farooqi. However, he quickly accepted that Jasprit Bumrah, who turned heads with Head in the 17th to put India ahead, was at the center of much of his success.
" Jassi bhai deserves a lot of credit because he puts a lot of pressure on the batters-- he gives, what, three or four runs in an over," Arshdeep said." I guess there are a lot of chances of getting wickets there," he said. " On the other end they see the runs are not coming and the asking rate is going high, so they take more risks against me. ]There's a] chance always of getting a wicket there. So Jassi bhai deserves a lot of credit for my wickets.
Head took the lead in Australia'a chase by slamming 76 in 43 balls, with a spot in the semi- finals at stake. At the start of the 14th over, when Australia were 128 for 2, Kuldeep Yadav got rid of Glenn Maxwell, and Axar Patel removed Marcus Stoinis in the next over, and Australia were suddenly 135 for 4 with 71 to get in just under six overs.
" The thought]process ] was clear. Our batters also batted on the same wicket, and early on it was easy to score runs, the ball was coming on nicely. But afterwards, it became tough to hit boundaries", Arshdeep said. We anticipated that the new batters would struggle to hit boundaries at will if we took a few wickets. That was the plan. A couple of nice overs from the spinners in the middle overs helped us".
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