India and the Asia Cup is a true love story and the team’s records in the tournament vouch for it. If not for it, the Men in Blue would have not clinched the title for a record seven times. Only the team knows what went wrong for them in the match against Sri Lanka in the Super 4 round of the Asia Cup 2022.
India kicked off their campaign with two consecutive wins in the group stage. The tables turned in the Super 4 all of a sudden as the same team lost to Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the Super 4 round. The loss against the island nation hurt the fans more than against Pakistan.
We tried our best to decode three factors that went against India and forced them to lose against Sri Lanka:
1) Middle order failing to fire
It is not a mystery or a puzzle to know that the Indian batting is heavily dependent on the top three. But then comes the question of middle-order. Teams consider middle-order to be the backbone of a team’s structure and teams lose when middle-order fails.
The Indian middle order, consisting of Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and Deepak Hooda, failed to fire in the end overs. As a result, India fell 10-15 runs short of the projected score. The Indian team managed to amass only 173 in 20 overs.
