Most importantly we need to learn to capitalize when the opposition is in under pressure. We restricted India to 243 in the 1st innings but could not capitalize on this. If we cannot capitalize on this opportunities then we have to be satisfied with "fight" only. In past, we also have played these sort of "fighting" test matches. Now time has come to make this "fight" to a result in our favor. To do this, we cannot let go the initiative that we did in the 1st innings. A century from our batsmen in the 1st innings would have took the match away from Indians. We need to learn to play when it matters most.
Still it is a good performance against the no#1 ranked team. But still, we let go a very good opportunity in the first innings. We have to learn to capitalize on every opportunities as we do not get much in test level.
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