'A big concern': India bowling coach ahead of T20 WC semi-final

NEW DELHI: As defending champions India hole to look England successful the T20 World Cup semi-final astatine Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, bowling manager Morne Morkel says dew could play a large role.He explained that conditions astatine Wankhede tin beryllium tricky. "I deliberation dew is ever a large concern. But that's again thing you can't control: the toss. I deliberation astatine Wankhede there's ever that other spot of bounce. Guys tin spot the bounce and pb done the enactment that tin also, arsenic a bowler, bring you into the game. I conscionable felt oregon consciousness that the margins present are a batch smaller. The shot travels; it's rather a tiny ground," Morne Morkel told the reporters.

He added that bowlers indispensable enactment brave contempt the risks.

"So you conscionable request to beryllium truly warring that over, staying successful the infinitesimal and competing for each ball. Because, arsenic I said, a batter's spot tin besides beryllium his weakness connected the surface. So it's sometimes not to spell excessively antiaircraft and support connected attacking due to the fact that opportunities tin come," helium added.Head manager Gautam Gambhir besides spoke astir however the deficiency of dew during this tourney has affected India’s batting compared to earlier bilateral series.

"During the bilateral bid arsenic well, determination was a batch of dew successful the 2nd innings arsenic well, but we did not spot a batch of dew during this World Cup campaign. So I felt that it was not lone astir the onslaught rate, but it was astir speechmaking the crippled decently and evidently speechmaking the concern arsenic well. And that is thing that is going to beryllium important, and the guys did that truly well," Gambhir said."Even today, you saw they were chasing 195. We ne'er felt that we were retired of the game. Never ever did we consciousness successful 20 overs that the pursuit was distant from us. So the guys kept successful control. Yes, determination were times successful bilateral matches wherever we could pursuit the people successful 16 oregon 17 overs, but this is the World Cup. And the unit is different, and the prime is antithetic arsenic well."India reached the semi-finals aft wins implicit Zimbabwe and West Indies, contempt a setback against South Africa successful the Super Eights.