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“Don’t think India will bat any worse, got over the line by one brilliant innings” – Michael Vaughan on Tilak Varma’s knock
By SMCS - Jan 26, 2025 8:20 am
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Former England captain Michael Vaughan said that India were poor with the bat in the second T20I played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk in Chennai on Saturday, January 25 as well. He, however, praised Tilak Varma for his brilliant knock, adding that England failed to grab their chances as well.

Tilak Varma
Tilak Varma scores a brilliant century

During a discussion on Cricbuzz, Vaughan said: “He’s [Varma] a wonderful player. He played the situation at hand. Picked the right ball at the right time to attack. To hold his nerve throughout the whole innings where there were a number of poor options by some of the Indian batters today. I don’t think India will bat any worse than they did today. They got over the line by one individual brilliant innings.

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“When I look at England, it was a massive opportunity. I don’t India were quite as good as they were in the first game. They gave England a chance or two and England were just not good enough to take them,” the veteran further added.

Tilak Varma
Tilak Varma

During the same discussion, former India left-arm speedster Zaheer Khan praised Tilak Varma. He also applauded the southpaw for showing great game awareness under pressure and keeping Team India in the race as well.

“When he was playing in South Africa, he had that blistering hundred. Today, the powerplay was good in many ways – scoring 59 runs, but losing three wickets. So understanding of the situation from Tilak Varma was just superb – he changed gears. Tilak Varma showed a lot of maturity to get the team home,” Michael Vaughan concluded.