Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has questioned Suryakumar Yadav’s captaincy regarding his bowling changes in the third T20I between India and Australia. India set the Aussies a huge 223-run target after being asked to bat first in Guwahati on Tuesday and they chased down the score off the final delivery with five wickets in hand as well.
Reviewing the game in a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra said: “Axar Patel bowled the 19th over. Prasidh Krishna was extremely expensive but he bowled the 18th and 20th overs. India still did not use six bowlers. Prasidh Krishna went for 68 runs but you got him to bowl because you didn’t even try to use a sixth bowler.”
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The former India opener further added: “Axar was bowling extremely well but you held him back for the 19th over. Why did you hold him back – I have got no idea. Huge error in calculation because you did not use a sixth bowler, got a spinner to bowl the 19th over, and Prasidh Krishna to bowl the 18th and 20th overs, and you got hit a lot.”
However, Team India seemed to win when Australia needed 43 runs off the last two overs. But Axar Patel conceded 22 runs in the penultimate over before Prasidh Krishna gave away 23 runs in the final over to eventually lose the game as well. While talking about Australia’s batting, Aakash Chopra questioned India’s bowling.
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“It’s not easy to chase 223 but Travis Head again started hitting. I am unable to understand at all that why no one is bowling him bouncers. We are saying everywhere that he should be bowled bouncers but no one did that. Aaron Hardie came with him. It seemed like this match was organized for Aaron Hardie, that he can bowl four overs even if he is going to be hit a lot, and then open the batting as well. He got out and then Josh Inglis and Tim David also got out. Travis Head also eventually got out to a short ball. After that, Maxi (Glenn Maxwell) came and started hitting – how well he bats. He scores runs on one leg or with one hand. We have seen this earlier as well and here also, he kept hitting sixes once he started doing that,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
