Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that the Indian team have adopted an ultra-aggressive approach in T20Is recently. He opined on whether individual players should be criticized for their failures amid this. The final T20I of the five-match series between India and England will take place in Mumbai on Sunday, February 2. Although Sanju Samson and Suryakumar Yadav weren’t among the runs in the first four T20Is, the Indian team enjoy a 3-1 lead heading into the final match as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Something different is happening. We should acknowledge and appreciate maybe because we were saying for a long time that India’s way of playing T20 cricket was slightly archaic. So the selectors and team management have picked a team that is totally for T20s. These people don’t play ODIs and the ODI guys don’t play T20Is.”
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“A separate team has been prepared. After that, an approach has been prepared, that is a high-risk approach but is also a high-reward approach. You are going towards 300. However, in such a scenario, when Tilak Varma tries to play a shot off the first ball and gets out, do you actually criticize it or say that it’s part and parcel of the game?” Chopra added. “When you see Sanju Samson’s four consecutive failures, you feel that he can play one ball cautiously as well. However, that’s not the team’s philosophy. When you see Suryakumar Yadav, you say why he is hitting like that when he isn’t in form, and that he should take a little time.”

In the same video, Aakash Chopra also stated that the Indian team management should be willing to accept a few failures as a result of their
aggressive approach as well.
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“This one question will remain for sure. When you play cricket like this, if you reach 280, you might get out for 125 someday, and be 10/3 and 80/5 as well. However, since you have committed that this is the template you are going to follow, then there will be failures and you will have to be ready for that,” Aakash Chopra concluded.