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183 was a good competitive score but poor fielding and lame bowling by the Srilankan side resulted in the loss. Sanju Samson was very agressive yesterday and I think he was a bit unlucky with his dismissal. He and Iyer could have easily ended the match if he was not caught behind. Jadeja is a good player and in my opinion he should not be moved up as India needs players like him down the order. Series won by the Indian side now expecting a complete whitewash.

The Indian bowling was not impressive and this helped the Lankan side. The captaincy tactics were also poor from the Indian side. Venkatesh Iyer picked up 2 wickets in the previous match, but he wasn't even given an opportunity to bowl this time. And this happened despite some of the main bowlers leaking over 50 runs in their allotted 4 overs. The problem here is that Venkatesh is being hailed as a replacement for Hardik Pandya, and no matter who is the captain, Pandya will make sure that no such replacement realizes in the Indian team.

If Hardik fail to perform in IPL then i don't think selectors are going to consider him for selection and if by any chance he does get place in the squad then making into playing XI won't be easy task for him. I also don't like him much but i can't deny the fact that fully fit Hardik is blessing for Indian cricket. Personal feeling, bias doesn't matter to me much as long as Indian cricket is doing well.

Hardik Pandya was produced by IPL and now he has another chance to prove his worth through IPL again. But it is going to be really hard for him because the competition is far greater now.

I think overall India did not live up to the expectations of a lot of people but they won the match and at the end of the day that's what matters. But questions can be asked about their bowling and obviously the captaincy because I think Venkatesh should have been given a chance to bowl in that match.

India won that match very comfortably specially because of shreyas iyer and that innings by ravindra jadeja but yes you are right bowling was not that good and venkatesh iyer must be given the bowl because India are grooming him an all all rounder so he must be given more exposure in bowling as well.