Pacer Jasprit Bumrah’s remarks came in the post-match press conference after India’s comprehensive 8-wicket loss to the Kiwis in Dubai-their second successive defeat after a 10 wicket loss to Pakistan. After being put in to bat, Virat Kohli and Co. could only score a mere 110 runs in the first innings. However, new Zealand chased down the total easily and needed only 14.3 overs to do so while losing just a couple of wickets.
Jasprit Bumrah: Ravichandran Ashwin Didn’t Play For Dew Factor In 2nd Innings
Many experts and fans of the cricket fraternity demanded that Ravichandran Ashwin be included in the team after India’s defeat to Pakistan last week owing to the poor show by Ravindra Jadeja and Varun Chakravarthy in that game(conceding 61 runs in 8 overs combined). But, unfortunately, the spin-pair failed once again on Sunday, conceding 46 runs from six overs without taking a wicket.
Jasprit Bumrah said: “See, in hindsight, we could say a lot of things. In hindsight, we would have loved a lot more runs and a lot more wickets. He is an experienced bowler. Obviously, he adds value to the bowling attack whenever he comes. But in hindsight, it’s very difficult.
“As I said, there’s dew in the second innings so the ball doesn’t grip and the options become very little and rare for the bowlers. You know, the margin of the error goes down. So in hindsight, you might say that ‘OK he might have made a difference’ but it’s too difficult to judge right now.”
While all the other Indian bowlers struggled under pressure, pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was the lone wicket-taker. The pacer bowled two overs in the powerplay and two in the middle-overs, getting both New Zealand openers out at the cost of just 19 runs.
Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin bowled 2 overs and finished with figures of 2/8 during India’s T20 World Cup warm-up match against Australia. Ravichandran Ashwin – who had a rather barren IPL 2021 — picked up two scalps in one over early in the innings to scuttle Australia’s prospects of getting a big score.
The 34-year-old Ravichandran Ashwin last played white-ball cricket for India in 2017 before being sidelined from one-day cricket following the Champions Trophy debacle. Ravichandran Ashwin has last featured in an ODI and T20I in 2017 in June-July against West Indies.
Jasprit Bumrah: Loss Is A Part And Parcel Of Cricketers Life
Jasprit Bumrah was also asked about his views on how India will recover from the mental setback of having suffered two back-to-back defeats that have almost knocked them out of the competition. He labelled it as “part and parcel” of an athlete’s life and advised his teammates to stay in the present and not let the bad days pull them down.
He said: “See, as a sportsman, you face a lot of days in cricket. Some days will be good, some days will be bad. What I try to do this is not getting very high when good days happen and not getting very low when bad days happen.
“All of these things are always a part and parcel of a cricketer’s life. Trying to stay in the moment, analyze what went wrong and what went well – that’s the only way you can move forward in this game.”
India will now play against Afghanistan on November 3 in Abu Dhabi, starting at 7:30 PM IST. Every match from here on is a virtual knockout for the Men in Blue. India will also face Namibia and Scotland in other league matches.