In what seemed to be a cakewalk for the Indian team, turned to be a slippery one where the visiting batsmen stumbled and lost the game by a narrow margin of 11 runs, chasing a total of 190.

Bowlers had done their job to perfection by not letting Windies to touch the 200 run mark on a pitch which was already slow and later troubled the Indian batsman as well.

Team India could just manage a score of 178 and handed a win to Windies, to let go away a chance of sealing the series here. Batsmen are to be blamed for this loss, despite the fact the surface wasn’t easy to bat on. Still, the stature which the Indian batsmen possess and the capability which they have in world cricket was enough but on the given day, they failed and faced a heartbreaking defeat.

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India batting coach Sanjay Bangar blamed batsmen for the loss and said it was the batting department that let the team down,

“Ya, it kept getting slower and slower because shot-making wasn’t really easy and those have been the nature of the wickets we have seen so far. Again we are playing on the same track (used) just two days ago, so the wicket kept getting slower but we didn’t bat to our potential because it was a gettable score, I just felt that the batsmen let the team down,” said Bangar after the game.

“We encountered this situation in the previous game where we lost a couple of wickets in the first ten, we still managed to get 260 (251) on a wicket which was very damp. Wise to say that we have been playing on wickets which have been difficult. When you play consecutive games on the same wicket, it gets slower and slower so shot making was a bit difficult but credit to them, they executed their plans really well but I really felt that it was a very gettable score,” he added.

MS Dhoni went in ultra slow mode and the former India skipper could just manage to score 54 off 114 but still there was time for him to finish off the game, as in the last two overs, team India needed 16 off 12 with him still on strike but in efforts to get a boundary on the last ball of penultimate over saw Dhoni getting dismissed, which ended the hopes of Indian team.

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The main reason for citing Dhoni for the loss is he took the responsibility of finishing this off. Though failures are inevitable, the number of balls Dhoni consumed sunk the team’s boat and created pressure on other players as well.

It was an opportunity for the likes of Kedar Jadhav and Hardik Pandya – who hit the only six for India – to do finish the job but the two youngsters also failed to raise keep the team buoyed in that situation, a fact which was mentioned by Bangar,

“That’s the goal of the team. You need to put the players in those situations which they are going to encounter at that particular position, Kedar at 6, Hardik at 7, how they handle the pressure, how they make sure the team crosses the finishing line. These are big-big experiences for them, today we felt that when Hardik got out it was still run a ball, when Jaddu got out, it was still run a ball, in these situations, shot selection was really crucial and I just felt they erred in that.”

Though India possesses an unassailable lead of 2-1, nothing less than a series victory will quench the thirst of Indian skipper Virat Kohli and in case this does not happen, this would the biggest disappointment for Indian team and also for the skipper.