Stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma’s Team India completely outplayed the Windies in the first two Twenty20 Internationals (T20I) of the three-match series to take an unassailable 2-0 lead on Tuesday. Disappointed by the visitors’ performance in the shortest format of the game, Denesh Ramdin expressed that the excellence of India’s chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav led to the Windies’ downfall in the series.
“Guys haven’t been able to pick him, and basically he has been one of the threats in the middle overs and unfortunately we couldn’t push on,” Ramdin said.
“It’s difficult to build a team given the current scenario. When you look at our T20 players they are in demand all over the world, so yes, we are suffering in that aspect. Our senior players did not turn up for the tour, and that’s one of the reasons why we are 2-0 down in this series,” Ramdin said ahead of the third and final T20.
“We played our first game at Eden Gardens, where we were expecting to do well. But we didn’t adapt as well as we should. We didn’t string any partnerships either. T20 banks on momentum and partnerships, and we couldn’t do that,” he said.
