The most awaited match between India and Pakistan in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 will be taking place at Melbourne Cricket Ground, on 23rd of October 2022. All the viewers seemed to be so excited for the match. In such a situation, the former batting coach of Team India, Sanjay Bangar while speaking on Star Sports show ‘Cricket Live’ talked about how the Indian team is gearing up for the match. He, as well, spoke about the mindset of team players for one of the biggest upcoming matches.
The former batting coach said, “No doubt about it. The spirits will be really high. I’m pretty sure that the Indian team must have taken a lot of positives from the way the batting has performed. Harsh lesson for the bowlers, but it’s good that it has come in this phase wherein there is time to think about it, re-draw their plans, go forward and play their best cricket in Australia.”
Sanjay Bangar further talked about the previous match records between India and Pakistan. He mentioned about the Asia Cup, as well spoke about a strong point of the Indian team. According to him, team India doesn’t rely on just one or two individuals unlike Pakistan, who seems to be dependent on their top order.
He said, “Team India has had some good games against Pakistan in the Asia Cup and what the Indian team would be weighing up is that it is a more complete team, which is a team that is not dependent on just one or two individuals. I feel, in the batting department, it’s clear that Pakistan is over-dependent on their top order like Babar and Rizwan. Whereas the Indian team is not actually dependent on a couple of players.”
On comparing the two, Bangar said that though India’s position is better than Pakistan in terms of batting position. But Pakistan seems to be heading the bowling part as they don’t lack in the department of speed. He said, “There are four or five match winners, and they are in their prime form, so, from a batting perspective, I feel the Indian team is in a better position. If you look at the bowling part, obviously, they have the speed, they always had that, but the Indian team has the skill in the sense that if Deepak Chahar is fit in place of Jasprit Bumrah, you can clearly see his abilities to swing the ball upfront and also Arshdeep Singh, who is our own version of a left-hander that we were searching for. So, he’s somebody who can swing the ball both ways. I feel that the Indian team is lacking in the speed department, but they more than make up with the skill that they possess.”
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Perhaps, this is going to be an interesting and quite competitive match as both the teams are expected to show their skills and stunning performance.
