The Indian team showed some great character in the 5-match T20I series against West Indies by bouncing back from 0-2 to 2-2 but in the end, it was West Indies which had the last laugh. WI won the 5-match series by 3-2 as they won the last T20I by 8 wickets.
After the match while talking to mediapersons, the head coach of the Indian team, Rahul Dravid accepted that lacking batting depth has cost them heavily and the scarcity of options has also hurt team India in this series. The former Indian cricketer stated, “I think in terms of our squad here, probably it didn’t allow us the flexibility in some ways to be able to change the combinations a little bit. But I think going forward, we’ve got to look at certain areas in which we can get better. Finding depth in our batting has been an area we are trying to address. We are trying to do the best we possibly can but that’s certainly an area we can look at, how we cannot weaken our bowling attack but ensure we have a certain amount of depth in batting.”
Rahul Dravid further added, “As these games are going on, and scores are becoming bigger and bigger, if you look at West Indies, they had Alzarri Joseph coming in at No. 11 and he can hit a mean ball. So you have sides which have that depth. Obviously, we have some challenges on that front and we need to work on that. It’s certainly something that this series has shown us and we need to build on that depth.”
Getting defeated by a team which hasn’t qualified for the World Cup is really a matter of worry for the Indian team as soon we are going to play Asia Cup and ODI World Cup as well.
