Visibly Shaken after The Loss Dhoni

ODI Tri series final on the top orders failure to build solid partnerships while admitting that he too committed a couple of tactical blunders. Visibly shaken after the loss Dhoni said the 315 run target set by Pakistan last night would not have been much of a challenge had his top order played sensibly. We lost wickets at regular intervals. It is very important to see yourself in the last five or seven overs if you have wickets in hand. If you see the wicket it was a flat wicket he said. Even 300 odd is really chaseable if you have wickets in hand and they were 100 for one in 25 runs and that went against our bowlers. They played some good shots and that really put the bowlers under pressure. We did not get a good start. Losing wickets at regular intervals was the killer he added.Dhoni admitted that sending Suresh Raina up the order instead of himself was a mistake but that alone cannot be considered the reason for the defeat. It was a mistake. I should have come ahead of Raina having made that mistake I cannot really help it now. That decision was taken in a positive frame of mind. If Yuvraj would have played through and Raina would have rotated the strike better instead of taking singles when Yuvraj was batting he rued. That would have put us in a comfortable position at the end of the 40^th over. Irfan and couple of other guys coming it would have been an easy target but as I said we kept losing wickets. We never really looked in to accelerate and we lost wickets. That weakened our chances Dhoni said. The skipper also conceded that his field placements could have been better when Salman Butt and Younis Khan let loose en route to their respective hundreds. Well he Butt was scoring through square leg and sweeping towards square leg. If you look at the country area like long and things it is very difficult to score. Most of times he cleared the boundary pick the ball from outside off from the stump as well. He took on the bowlers and more often he was successful and that really put bowlers under pressure he explained and the stumper said that the Pakistanis used the field to their advantage but the Indians were guilty of playing extravagant shots at a time when caution and restraint were needed more often than not we ended up with the fielder. If you see each time the fielder had never have to move to take the catch you can say that selection of shots were not appropriate but at the same time you have to play your shots as well because you are chasing over six runs an over. We never had the momentum with us he said. On Pakistans performance Dhoni said they were hundred for one in 25 overs and then see how much they scored in the last 25 overs. They put loads of pressure. They are learning from each match. We win some and we lose some matches.

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