Former Indian player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra felt a sense of complacency with the Indian Team’s bowling in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. However, India lost the series 2-0, thereby conceding an ODI bilateral series against Sri Lanka for the first time since 1997 as well. Chopra also opined on how the Indian spinners had the upperhand in the first two ODIs but the Lankans were able to get away and post good totals. He also felt there was a lack of urgency to close out the innings which hurt Team India as well.

Aakash Chopra talked about India’s bowling in a video on his YouTube channel: “We weren’t able to close out the innings with the ball. There seemed a sense of complacency that we would get the wickets anyway and if we don’t get the wickets we will chase the runs anyway. The ruthlessness was missing.”

However, Aakash Chopra also expected the likes of Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel to run through the Sri Lankan batters with the amount of turns available on the pitch as well. But that didn’t happen as the visitors couldn’t bowl out Sri Lanka even once in the series as well. The veteran also stated that the Indians played spin better than the opposition batters on flatter decks as well.

“I think we outbat the opposition and play spin really well on flat wickets. Out bowlers also bowl better than theirs on such pitches. However, when the pitches begin to turn, our batting becomes ordinary and the gap in the quality of bowling is reduced. So this is a problem they need to address,” Aakash Chopra concluded.