Not that we had any pressure of reaching the final anyway, but now that we are not going to go into the final, this is the best time to start our preparations for the ICC Champions Trophy.
We had the earliest time out of all the other teams to prepare for this tournament and yet we have not produced anything but a win against a non-test playing part-timers, whereas Sri-Lanka who had the shortest time to prepare are playing in the final and also undefeated so far.
So this shows that we are very far behind in our cricket, but what we (our players) must improve in is our technique, which has hampered our perfomance for an eternity.
We have focus on areas like that even more with matches which are irrelevant to us in this competition, like the match against Pakistan. We need to find a solution to the rotting of our middle order batting, which has been the bain of our perfomance both with the bat and the ball.
This has only been covered up by our bowlers playing a part-time (CONSISTANTLY) role of batting as well, which as a domino effect in taking the sting off their bowling.
The idea of ODI is for the batsmen to lay the perfect foundation for our BOWLERS to defend, this has not been the case, in our matches, whether in this tournament or for sometime. So we must focus on this area in greater detail than ever and maybe we might see an improvement in perfomance which would equal results.
