Mumbai: As India registered a 30-run win over Bangladesh in the final T20I and won the three-match series by 2-1, India batsman Shreyas Iyer revealed that skipper Rohit Sharma gave a pep-talk to all team-mates and that proved as a motivation to win the match.
Bangladesh was Chasing 175 for the win, but they were bundled out for 144, giving the Indian team a win by 30 runs. Deepak Chahar proved the main destructor as he scalped six wickets in the match.
While talking with reporters Shreyas Iyer said, “yeah, we were feeling the pressure. We know they are a good side and there is no team that you can underestimate in the shortest format. And in the previous two games, we saw that they played a mesmerising brand of cricket.”
Further, he added, “we were going little lethargic at the start, but once they started going, Rohit recalled all players inside the circle, he gave us a pep talk and after that, all of us got determined to win the match.”
After the early wickets of Shikhar and Rohit, Indian team looked insight of bother but half-centuries from KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer steadied the game and took the score of the Indian team to a respectable total.
There was a over which was bowled by Off-spinner Afif in which Iyer hit 3 sixes in a row
“Yes, I would say that. The over in which I hit three sixes changed the momentum of the match. Otherwise, we would have got 150 and that would have been a really tough total to difficult on this wicket. Yeah, I would give my self a credit. It was important for one of the top three batters to stay at the crease till the 15th over,” Iyer said.
Further, he added, “There is a lot of competition going on in the side, but I personally feel, I compete with myself.
When you say this position is empty in the batting order, I say to myself that I can bat any position and today’s innings showed that I can play under pressure situations.”
A knock of 81 from Mohammad Naim and his 98 run partnership with Mohammad Mithun gave Bangladesh a sight of reliving but in middle overs, Shivam Dubey and Deepak Chahar got wickets that led to fall of the wickets from both the end.
Chahar took six wickets in the match and he created the record for scripting best bowling figures in a T20I match.
He also became the first Indian to take a hat-trick in the shortest format of the game. While Dube took three wickets in the match.
“There were two turning points in the game. First, Deepak Chahar coming in and getting two wickets pretty quickly and second, Shivam Dube getting that two back to back wickets to change the match,” Iyer said.
India and Bangladesh will play two-match Test series and the first game will be played from November 14-18.
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