{"id":10461,"date":"2012-10-01T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10461"},"modified":"2012-10-01T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T07:15:54","slug":"team-responded-well-to-must-win-situation-dhoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10461","title":{"rendered":"Team responded well to must-win situation: Dhoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/cricket\/indian-cricket-team_161_100.jpg\" alt=\"Team responded well to must-win situation: Dhoni\" width=\"250\" \/><strong>Colombo<\/strong>: Indian skipper MS Dhoni praised his bowlers and in-form batsman Virat Kohli for India&#8217;s eight-wicket victory over the arch-rivals Pakistan in a crucial T20 World Cup Super Eights match here at the R. Premadasa Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>India who required a win to keep their hopes alive in the tournament bowled brilliantly and then it was Virat Kohli\u2019s heroics that helped the men in blue register rout Pakistan convincingly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team responded well and the bowlers bowled really well to restrict Pakistan to a small total. After a couple of overs, we settled down,\u201d Dhoni said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The part-time bowlers did a very good job and that was crucial as we were playing with seven batsmen,&#8221; Dhoni added.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Kohli&#8217;s good run for India, Dhoni said he was very pleased and it was very good for the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is good that Kohli is taking the responsibility. He has been someone who has been consistent in the last one and half years. It is good that a batsman has been in consistent form and others are revolving around him,&#8221; said the skipper.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, talking about Yuvraj Singh who was instrumental with both bat and all, Dhoni said, \u201cIf we look at our combination, we play seven batsmen and you can&#8217;t leave someone like Yuvraj Singh out of the side. We had never considered the option of leaving out Yuvraj,&#8221; Dhoni said at the post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our bowling line-up is such that we need a left-arm bowler who can take the ball away from the batsman. Also he is a brilliant fielder as you saw with the run-out today,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lot of people were apprehensive about Yuvraj\u2019s return to the international cricket and questioned his fitness, but then Dhoni said he is was not worried about it a lot and said that the star all rounder is fit to play atleast in this format of the game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am not really concerned about his fitness as far as T20 cricket is concerned. He has worked really hard at the NCA for the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>He has also played some active T20 matches before coming into international cricket. More so the batting time in the middle will certainly helphim as in domestic cricket, you don&#8217;t get the kind of bowlers you get here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p>By Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"images\/cricket\/indian-cricket-team_161_100.jpg\" alt=\"Team responded well to must-win situation: Dhoni\" width=\"250\" \/><strong>Colombo<\/strong>: Indian skipper MS Dhoni praised his bowlers and in-form batsman Virat Kohli for India&#8217;s eight-wicket victory over the arch-rivals Pakistan in a crucial T20 World Cup Super Eights match here at the R. Premadasa Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>India who required a win to keep their hopes alive in the tournament bowled brilliantly and then it was Virat Kohli\u2019s heroics that helped the men in blue register rout Pakistan convincingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[466,622,2274,542,520],"class_list":["post-10461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-virat-kohli","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Team responded well to must-win situation: Dhoni - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=10461\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team responded well to must-win situation: Dhoni - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Colombo: Indian skipper MS Dhoni praised his bowlers and in-form batsman Virat Kohli for India&#039;s eight-wicket victory over the arch-rivals Pakistan in a crucial T20 World Cup Super Eights match here at the R. 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