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We need to look at our bowling before the next game: Rohit Sharma

image-l8alfmtiRohit Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar [Image Credit- Twitter]

Captain Rohit Sharma admitted in the post-match interview that India needs to work on their bowling after the hosts were handed a 4-wicket thrashing by Australia in a high-scoring affair in Mohali on Monday.

Just like in the recent Asia Cup, Indian seamers were found wanting in the powerplay as well as in the death, while lead-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal continued to get slaughtered during the middle-overs.

To make matters worse was India's dreadful catching as KL Rahul and Axar Patel made a meal out of easy catches offered by Steve Smith and half-centurion Cameron Green.

While Rohit admitted that the conditions were tough to defend, he also asserted that the management needs to address the bowling before the 2nd game. 

Here's what Rohit Sharma said:

"I don't think we bowled well. 200 is a good score to defend, and we didn't take our chances in the field. It was a great effort from our batters, but bowlers were not quite there. There are things we need to look at, but it was a great game for us to understand what went wrong. We know this is a high-scoring ground. You can't relax even if you get 200.

"We took wickets to an extent, but they played really well. We were not able to take that extra wicket. That was the turning point, if we would have taken another wicket, things would have been different. You can't score 200 everyday, you need to bat well. We need to look at our bowling before the next game,"

Indian bowling hits a new low in Mohali

One of the major reasons behind India's success with the ball in T20Is over the years has been Bhuvneshwar Kumar's bowling in the powerplay.

No one has taken more powerplay wickets in T20Is this year, but in the two Super-4 games against Pakistan and Sri Lanka and here against Australia, the premier seamer has been unable to do so.

His death bowling has always been a suspect in the last 2 years, and with Harshal Patel also having a bad day at the office, the duo went on to leak 54 runs in overs 17, 18, 19 and to hand the game to Australia.

Amid all this, one cannot be ignore Chahal's underwhelming returns in the middle-overs- 1-42 in 3.3- and had it not been for Axar Patel's sensational spell (3/17 in 4), the game would have ended long before it did.

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