Delhi:In the second T20 match against West Indies, the Indian cricket team had to face a crushing defeat by 6 wickets. Last Friday, in the match played at JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi, India, batting first, scored a huge score of 249/5 in 20 overs, but West Indies scored 252 runs after losing 4 wickets in 18.3 overs. With this victory, the visiting team leveled the five-match series 1-1.

This defeat left many questions for India. Despite the big score, the bowlers could not defend the target, while some shortcomings were also seen in the batting. In this article, we will mention those three aspects from the third T20 match, on which Team India needs to pay special attention.

1. Will have to bowl better in death overs

Indian bowlers performed brilliantly in the beginning of West Indies' innings. The team put the guests under pressure by taking two wickets in the very first over. Within six overs of the powerplay, West Indies' score was 58/3. But after this Shai Hope and Sherfane Rutherford completely changed the course of the match.

Hope scored unbeaten 102 runs on 45 balls, while Rutherford played a stormy innings of 84 runs on 37 balls. Both of them increased the problems of the Indian bowlers by adding 120 runs for the fourth wicket.

Mayank Yadav took 3 wickets for 36 runs in 3 overs, but Kuldeep Yadav proved to be very expensive. He spent 53 runs in 4 overs and took only one wicket. Apart from him, no other Indian bowler could take a wicket.

India also bowled four overs to the spin bowlers in the last five overs of the match. Head coach Gautam Gambhir admitted that the team will have to learn to defend big scores in all kinds of conditions. Dew can also become a challenge for the bowlers in night matches. In such a situation, Indian bowlers will have to make changes in their line and length as well as make a strategy to stop the batsmen from playing shots freely.

2. The middle order will have to show strength against spin.

West Indies spin bowler Roston Chase troubled the Indian batsmen a lot. He took 3 wickets for 24 runs in 4 overs and sent Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Shivam Dubey to the pavilion. His tight bowling in the middle overs curbed India's run rate.

Shivam Dubey, who came to bat at number-4, could score only 7 runs in 10 balls. Chase bowled him out in 13.3 overs. On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer, who scored a century in the first T20, came at number-5 and scored 40 runs in 18 balls. However, he came to bat after the fall of the fourth wicket in 14.3 overs.

India will have to rethink its middle order batting order and its strategy against spin. Gautam Gambhir has indicated that the team wants to maintain flexibility in the batting order. However, this strategy will be beneficial on important occasions only when the batsmen are able to score runs quickly in the middle overs and also save wickets.

3. Good start has to be converted into a big innings

India's top order gave the team a strong start, but the batsmen could not convert their good start into big innings. Sanju Samson scored 82 runs on 41 balls, while Ishan Kishan contributed 43 runs on 22 balls and Abhishek Sharma contributed 20 runs on 12 balls.

Abhishek was out as the first wicket on the score of 42 in 3.6 overs. Ishan Kishan returned to the pavilion on a total score of 139 in 11.1 overs, while Sanju Samson was out as the fourth wicket on a score of 162 in 14.3 overs.

Tilak Verma definitely scored unbeaten 44 runs in 18 balls and played an important role in taking the team to 249/5. India scored at an impressive rate of 12.45 runs per over, but despite this West Indies achieved the target with nine balls remaining.

If one or two of the opening batsmen had played till the end, India's score could have been bigger. In the third T20, the team will have to take advantage of the good start and focus on playing big innings.