Over aggressive and over confident Pakistan could not tackle the pressure created by Dhoni initially and later by Sehwag and Kohli.
Dhoni was very focused and so was his team right from the word 'go'. That only 100 runs were scored between the 3rd and 20th over tells the way with which the Indians bounced back. To me, Dhoni's captaincy proved too much for Pakistan.
He started off with Zaheer and Irfan, brought Balaji in the 5th over. Knowing that the ball does not come off the pitch, brought on Kohli to put further brakes on Pakistan. He used Kohli and Yuvaraj to a great extent that 3 wickets fell in the space of 4 overs that literally put scoring in great difficulty.
Kolhi 3rd over put some damage to the Indian attack after a no-ball bowledl - 15 runs were scored off that over. Dhoni rectified that immediately and brought on Ashwin and the wickets started to crumble yet again.
Kolhi is in such a tremendous form with the bat. Unfortunately if Kohli fails, the rest of the Indian team could not carry it forward, as was seen against the Aussies. It is high time that the Raina's, Sehwag's Gambhir's of the world perform around Kohli.
I really liked the determination of Indian players against this Pakistan team. I only wish Dhoni and boys continue with such great effort for all the remaining do-or-die matches.
Now, with this drub against India, Pakistan faces Aussies in a must-win situation. If they loose the match, the NRR will surely be below India's. Then all India have to do, is improve the net run rate, even if they loose the final match against South Africa.
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