The debutants make into the Indian favour?

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Wed, Mar 24, 2021, 11:35 AM

The debutants make into the Indian favour?

India win by a margin of 66 runs which is barely believable after the rollicking opening partnership England had. Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy put on 135 in a little over 14 overs and at the time they made the target of 317 look insufficient. But their innings came crashing down once debutant Prasidh Krishna found a way through. They lost 10 wickets within 116 runs from there, with all off India's seamers coming to the party. A similar turnaround had been engineered with the bat as well, from India's other debutant Krunal Pandya whose record fifty helped fire up an innings that was losing its way. It was a strange pitch in a way. There were a couple of partnerships that gave an impression of a belter. But even as the ball came on well, there was pace, bounce and a little bit of nip which triggered a cluster of wickets in both innings.

Prasidh Krishna (8.1-1-54-4 on debut): It didn't start off well, and they came hard at us because we bowled poorly, but we had belief. We picked wickets in a cluster and that helped us a lot. I understood after my third over, I can't bowl full, and then I hit good length areas, and let the ball do the rest. IPL has helped me, but it's important in a 10-over format it's more important to come back. I'd like to be known as a hit-the-deck bowler, and I'm trying to get the length more consistently, and I'm going to go back to the drawing board and improve upon it.

Eoin Morgan | England captain: Did a lot of things right today. Wicket was brilliant as well which made for an entertaining game. There was something for the seamers but if you got in, you could score heavily too. Our bad days with the bat make it look worse than usual. Need to execute better than we did today. When you look at our top seven in particular, we've all scored under 60 ball hundreds. That's the way we want to play. With one eye on the WC, we want to try and push the envelope in that regard. Sometimes it doesn't work.

Virat Kohli | India captain: This is one of our sweetest wins in the recent past. This one is right up there with any other. Getting nine wickets so quickly is outstanding. To come back into the game the way they did is brilliant. I'm a really, really proud man right now. Team showed great character and intensity. As I mentioned in the past as well, we promote players who have intent. Special mention to Shikhar's innings as well. KL as well, back among the runs. Want to back the people who we know will go out and do a selfless job. For every spot we have two-three players available. Great signs for Indian cricket.