Captain Rahul Dravid has slammed the fielders for India's heart-wrenching
three wicket loss to England in the fourth cricket one-dayer but said his
team has the resilience to come back from this "tough" situation.
"It's tough, but I think when we reach Headingley we'll
be pretty keen", Dravid said after the match which has left India with
the difficult task of winning the remaining three games to clinch the seven-match
series.
"We know in the back of our minds that we could have won
that game - the series could easily have been so different. We knew we had the
upper hand and only needed that one wicket." Dravid, however, was not too
harsh on the bowlers who failed to deliver the knock-out punch despite having
England toterring at 114 for seven.
"I thought we bowled well. It was just that one wicket
at that stage that we didn't get," Dravid said.
The hosts were down at 114 for 7 before Ravi Bopara and Stuart Broad
stitched an unbroken 99-run stand for the eighth wicket to lead them to victory.
"I knew that if they batted 50 overs they would probably get there,"
the skipper said.
"We tried to keep getting wickets, we tried to change
it round but to be fair they didn't give us a chance." Dravid said the
team's fielding, which has been a concern throughout the series, was a major
let down.
"Our fielding is an area that does hurt us, especially in these type of
low-scoring games," he said.
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