After Team India’s loss in the third T20I against England, veteran cricketer-turned-commentator Parthiv Patel has said that Shreyas Iyer might be under pressure as a captain because of adverse results. However, he also added that the recently appointed India T20I captain hasn’t committed any captaincy blunders. India faced a 125-run defeat in the third T20I against England in Nottingham on Tuesday, July 7, as well.
During a discussion on JioHotstar, Parthiv said, “Obviously, the results have not gone in his favor. There is no doubt about that. However, considering the way India are playing, if you try to judge just the captaincy, it doesn’t seem like Shreyas Iyer has made any blunder as a captain, that he bowled a spinner when a fast bowler should have been bowled or vice versa. He hasn’t done anything like that.”
“Even in the middle, he knew that wickets were required between the 13th and 16th overs. So, he gave bowling to his main bowlers. He was trying to close the game there. I didn’t find anything lacking in the way he used his personnel,” Parthiv shared again.
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However, Parthiv Patel also questioned Morne Morkel’s planning, wondering why Harshit Rana used slower balls early in England’s innings as well.
“The shortcoming has been seen in the kind of planning from the bowling coach. If you know the ball is seaming a little from the pitch or is swinging a little, why was Harshit Rana using the slower ones in the first over itself? Did he come with the thought process beforehand that he had to bowl slower ones? This is a specialty of the T20 format. These things keep changing in every over,” he said.
“You have to adjust according to the conditions. You might have pre-planned that you would use the slower one, but the pitch was doing something else at that time. Arshdeep Singh bowled a maiden over. You bowled two slower ones, and the game changed entirely. India need to come out of their defensive thinking,” Parthiv Patel concluded.
