Dubai, 24 October | India captain Virat Kohli said it would not have been the end of the world for him even if his team would have won instead of losing heavily to arch-rivals Pakistan in the T20 World Cup here on Sunday. . Pakistan registered their biggest T20 International win, defeating India by 10 wickets in their opening T20 World Cup match, which was also their first against neighbors in 13 attempts at a global meet.
However, when Kohli was asked if his team was overconfident and not thinking of playing Pakistan, he got the goat. “You know it’s amazing what is reality and what are the thoughts outside people. I just want them to wear cricket kits and understand what pressure is,” Kohli had asked a Pakistani scribe.
“You don’t go there to take anything lightly, especially a team like Pakistan which can beat any team in the world on its day, it’s a sport that should be respected and we are a team that doesn’t. Think that winning matches is the end of the world.
“Cricket is above and beyond anyone else and we definitely respect the game and we never take any opposition lightly nor do we differentiate between the opposition. “That day, if we didn’t play well, we accept it and give credit to the opposition as well. We don’t create any other scenario to know what went wrong and what went right which leads in a positive way. “
Before this particular question, he was asked whether he thought of choosing Ishan Kishan over Rohit Sharma? “That’s a very brave question. What do you think sir? I played the team that I liked best. “I’m just asking you? Would you drop Rohit Sharma from T20 Internationals? Will you leave Rohit Sharma? If you want dispute, please let me know first so that I can reply accordingly. Incredible…,” one can understand, smiling but also trying to suppress his anger. But he agreed without any uncertainty that India were out on that day.
“He definitely overtook us. If you don’t beat the opposition you don’t win by 10 wickets. We didn’t even get a chance. We tried to put a lot of pressure on him but he had the answer. Admit it I have no shame that he played us. He said, “Like I said, when you step into the field as 11 players from either side, you have an equal chance of winning the game, but winning every match.” There is no guarantee,” he said. All praise for Shaheen Shah’s debut spell ========================= Afridi, who Shook the Indian top order by taking the wickets of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and later skipper Kohli in his second spell.
“He bowled really well with the new ball and hit the right areas to take wickets. In T20 cricket, it’s all about the execution of taking wickets with the new ball and he certainly did that and the credit goes to him. “He put our batsmen under pressure and ran with intensity with the new ball, showed that he bowled consistently in the areas and so as a batsman, you need to be careful and that spell got us on the back-foot immediately. brought it. brought it. When you lose three wickets for 20 runs (31), that extra 20-25 runs looks very difficult.”
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