00:00Okay, let's break it down. I do feel that Indian team is a work in progress in terms of playing T20 cricket.
00:08They still haven't been able to crack that code individually and collectively as to how to play T20 cricket.
00:15Certain players, starting with Harmanpreet Kaur, because she plays in the middle order or probably sometimes the top order, she knows exactly when she has to pace the innings.
00:24But I can't say the same for everyone else. And it's not just because they have lost in the World Cup.
00:29That's why I am saying. I think I have said these words even before that Indian team is a work in progress.
00:34When they played their first match against New Zealand, I thought they were a little underprepared.
00:39And possibly, they didn't expect New Zealand to come hard at them, which is again very wrong because when you are playing a World Cup,
00:47you have to expect every team that they are also in the World Cup scenario to win it, not just to participate.
00:52So, that was wrong. Then, once that realization happened, when New Zealand started hitting the way they were,
00:58when they were attacking the ball, I felt that, you know, the awareness that they have to quickly turn things around and maybe bat much better than what they fielded.
01:08That realization didn't happen. And the shell-shock approach from the first two overs till the 40th over was just there, very much visible for the Indian team.
01:19Once they had that setback, coming against Pakistan was just about winning for them, which I thought was a very defensive approach.
01:29And you can expect that also to happen because you have just lost the first game. Now, you are trying to stay in contention in the tournament.
01:38Then against Sri Lanka, there was a slightly much better performance but not a convincing performance.
01:43Individually, again, I am talking about. And by the time Australia came, you needed your entire all units to fire.
01:49Australia will not give you opportunities to come back in a contest or maybe give an iota, especially when they know that they were missing their captain.
01:57So, in totality, I thought they were behind the game rather than being ahead of the game and that was there throughout the tournament.
02:06So, individually, I don't think they had arrived the way. If you want to win a world championship, you arrive for it.
02:14Yes, Australia is a stronger team. We all know that. But at least arrive for the tournament in a style or in a manner that you are there in it to win it, not just to participate.
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