When the other team's RR is at 4, flat pitch or not, the bowlers let loose way too many boundary balls. No surprise that the pacers were the worst of the lot. Just shows how we badly needed to pick Sunny for this match. It's time we start using Shakib more as a 3rd spin option. Let him focus more on being a batsman. He can't be superman all the time because he's a human after all and we're already seeing him deteriorate.
Credit to the WI batsmen though. They were attacking our bowling from the start and did not let our bowlers settle at all. Chanders again showed why he's such a class batsman.
For the WI, their focus will no doubt be getting 550-600 and then declare if we don't get them out by then. For us, we'll do well from here if we can bundle them out at around 450-500.
Our batsmen are going to be under pressure tomorrow and the match depends on them. WIth an 8 man batting lineup, we better put up a big score.
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