India totally surrenders to the AB de Villiers’ onslaught: 5 Reasons for India’s loss

India totally surrenders to the AB de Villiers’ onslaught: 5 Reasons for India’s loss: It was a complete mis-match at the Wankhade as the home team was humbled easily in the front of a packed multitude here on Sunday. It was AB de Villiers’ freakishly eye popping stuff that sealed the fate for the men in blue and he became the only player in the history of the game to score over 300 runs in a bilateral series at a strike rate of over 300. The Proteas ran through the Indians and outplayed them in all departments of the game. Let’s analyse the 5 reasons why we think India lost the match:

The toss:

The toss is absolutely crucial in a series decider like this. Lady luck shone brightly on the Proteas side as ABD won the toss and as has happened on many occasions; MSD lost the toss, and lost the plot completely thereafter. Chasing a total in the final deciding game of a bilateral series under lights, in front of a jam packed crowd is never going to be easy, and as expected the Indians wilted meekly under pressure and ABD’s onslaught proved to be too much to handle for the hosts.

The lack of a quality all rounder:

Back in the days India had a quality all rounder in the name of Kapil Dev and Irfan Pathan to name a few but now India seems to be searching desperately for a reliable all rounder but to no avail. Axar Patel has been too expensive with the ball and with hasn’t lived up to the expectations with the bat. So all in all there was too much dependence on the top order which surely is not the way how you are going to win.

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Inconsistent performance by the batters:

Inconsistency was written all over the Indian batting this time around. In one match Virat Kohli performs, the next match he fails, in one match Rahane excels and the next match he doesn’t and so on. This has been the case of this much famed Indian batting line up this series. MS Dhoni was poor with the bat this series barring the second game. Rohit Sharma got out playing non challant shots and these things sounded the death knell for India.

Poor bowling display:

The bowlers were absolutely egregious and equally bad. Mohit Sharma leaked far too many runs and bowlers like Axar Patel and Bhuvneshwar also followed his footsteps. No Yorkers were bowled at the death. Their lines were erring and the length of most balls was wavered and none of them bowled with an aggressive intent of picking up wickets.

AB de Villiers:

AB de Villiers was in his most supreme form this series. He became the first player in the history of the gentleman’s game to register a total score of over 300 in a bilateral series over a strike rate of 130. His swashbuckling, scintillatingly jaw dropping stuff stunned the Indian bowlers who were completely unprepared of the imperious storm that they were to weather.