Although India’s records in ICC knockouts have been a little dicey, the team is considered one of the favorites of all time. But former batsman Suresh Raina still warns that there are 3 teams that the Indian Team must be aware of.
For
the first time in history, Suresh Raina seems to be worried about the
performance of team India against certain teams. The first one of them is the team
West Indies who are also known as defending champions. He added that “West
Indies are going to play fearless cricket. India will have to take wickets,
especially in the powerplay, when we face them. The Windies have batsmen from
No. 1 to 10 and they have the six-hitters.”
Apart
from West Indies, Raina was also worried about Afghanistan because of their
best spinners that could be trouble for the Indian team. The third team that
he is worried about is Sri Lanka. This is because in the T20I series in July, Sri
Lanka managed to defeat India since the Indian team was unaware of the strength and
capabilities that the young players of the Lankan team.
He
further said, “Both Afghanistan and Sri Lanka have updated their game and still
nobody is even talking about them. Although
the Indian team has played some matches
against this new team of Sri Lanka, we still haven't seen many players of their
team performing.”
"Therefore,
teams like Sri Lanka and Afghanistan should be considered as a threat as well
because their spinners are more aware of the conditions of the pitches of UAE. India
needs to learn their strategy after every single match in order to get a clear
vision, positive intent towards the matches,” he explained further.
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