Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah reacts after bowling the ball against New Zealand in Dubai on Sunday.
Leading India’s fast bowling Jasprit Bumrah He said bubble fatigue is a hard reality of the present times as he tried to explain the embarrassing campaign of the team in the ongoing T20 World Cup here.
India lost to New Zealand by eight wickets on Sunday and are in danger of being knocked out of the T20 World Cup with three more group matches. The team is yet to win a single match, having lost to Pakistan by 10 wickets.
“Absolutely, you need a break,” Bumrah said in the post-match press conference. IPL and T20 World Cup.
“But it is the reality of the times we are living in, it is difficult, it is a pandemic and we are living in a bubble. We try to adapt but bubble fatigue and mental fatigue also creep in.
He said, “You’re doing the same thing over and over. It’s the same, and you can’t control a lot of things here.”
The Indian team got a six-day break between their first match against Pakistan and Sunday’s engagement against New Zealand. captain Virat Kohli, describing it as helpful in dealing with fatigue and niggles, called it “ridiculous” at the toss last night.
Bumrah said, “Sometimes you miss your family after being on the road for 6 months. It all plays in your mind sometimes. But when you are on the field, you think about all those things. I don’t think.” “You don’t control the scheduling and all of those things and which tournaments get played when.
“Obviously, living in a bubble and being away from your family for so long plays a part in the minds of the players. But the BCCI has also tried its best to make us feel comfortable.”
India have been in the bio-bubble since June when they landed in England to play the World Test Championship final. The team got a three-week break after that game against the Black Caps, which was followed by a grueling five-Test series against England.
Reflecting on Sunday’s match, Bumrah said the batsmen tried to play an “aggressive game” to give an extra 30 runs to the bowlers on the dew-laden surface as it was a communication from the team management. Interestingly, Bumrah’s decision to play the “attacking game” came minutes after captain Virat Kohli admitted in a post-match presentation that neither his men had displayed proper “body language” nor did the bowlers admit that they were not in a position to play the game. He was “brave” in his approach.
The difference in statements from the captain and his leading fast bowler shows that “communication” has indeed been a problem.
“The batsmen wanted to cushion 20 to 30 extra runs and in the process they played a lot of aggressive shots which didn’t come today. In the second innings, batting becomes easier so they wanted to give that cushion to the bowlers and that idea. In the process, played a lot of aggressive shots,” Bumrah tried his best to defend the poor performance.
The pacer said the communication was clear as to what the state of the game was.
“Getting 25 to 30 runs (on a two-pace wicket) was not very easy, but that was the extra responsibility you had to take on. It’s tough and that’s why everyone playing the evening game is choosing to bowl first.
“There is a huge gap and our batsmen knew they had to give us a cushion. They tried their best and it didn’t work out today,” Bumrah said.
According to Bumrah, one of the primary reasons for India’s failure is that the team batting first found that the ball was caught and three batsmen – KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma And Ishaan Kishan – who tried the ‘pick-up pull shot’, couldn’t execute it. This was not a problem in the second innings.
“In the second innings, the length ball was not being caught. In the first innings, the ball was in hold and hence the pick-up pull was not coming. So it was difficult to make the shot. Those options changed in the second innings,” he said. .
But Bumrah does not want to fall into the quagmire of defeat.
“Some days will be good and some days bad. Neither be too high on good days nor too low on bad days. All these things are integral, stay in the moment and analyze what went well and move on,” she spoke.
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