The Australian cricket team won by three wickets and took 1-0 lead in two-match T20I series on Sunday. Fast bowler of Indian cricket team Jasprit Bumrah became the second Indian player to breach the 50-wicket mark in the T20I format. Ravichandran Ashwin was the first Indian to reach this mark. He achieved the milestone during the 1st T20I against Australia in Visakhapatnam when he dismissed Peter Handscomb in the 19th over of Australia’s innings. While addressing the post match press conference in Visakhapatnam, India fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah said, “I was just focusing on what my strengths are and what the wicket is because the wicket was little difficult to bat on. It is not easy to score on such sluggish wickets. I was figuring out my options what I should do and I was trying to execute that”.
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00:00 I was just focusing on what my strengths are and what the wicket is.
00:04 Because the wicket was a little difficult to bat on.
00:06 It's not easy to score heavily on this wicket.
00:09 Because to play big shots over this sluggish wicket was a little difficult.
00:13 So I was just figuring out my options, what I should do and I was trying to execute that.
00:18 Once you know your target is a small target, so once you hit one boundary,
00:21 then you don't need to take a lot of risks.
00:23 I mean, we were batting first, so we were still figuring out what is the safe total.
00:27 So I think that was the difference. Maybe they were rotating the strikes after hitting a boundary.
00:32 So yeah, but in the end it was a good match.
00:34 No, not really.
00:38 See, we almost pulled off this game as well.
00:49 But on this wicket, around 140-145 would have been a very good score.
00:54 Because as I told you, over here there was low bounce and it was difficult to hit big shots.
00:59 So it's always difficult on these kind of wickets to chase totals.
01:03 We were trying our best. We were just figuring out.
01:05 He was just trying to take the game deep and trying to get us to a safe total, which he tried.
01:11 And I think we were short by 15-20 runs, but still gave us a fighting total.
01:16 We had something that we could fight on.
01:18 So I think that was the plan which he was trying to execute.
01:21 It always goes both ways, because once you bowl a last over in a closed game,
01:26 during that over it is sometimes 50-50.
01:29 Because you try your best, you're always clear in your execution.
01:32 Some days it works, some days it doesn't.
01:34 So yeah, nothing to be worried about.
01:37 Yes, we could have... we wanted to close the game in our favor, but it's okay.
01:42 This happens because, as I told you, death bowling is a little difficult in any situation.
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