Nidahas Trophy 2018, 1st T20I: 5 things that went wrong for India

#4 Inability to accelerate after the 12-over mark

Despite losing two wickets early in the innings, the Indian team would have expected to get around 200, especially after the end of the 12-over mark, with the score reading 100-2. Given that the Indian team was batting deep, and had players like Vijay Shankar and Washington Sundar in the lower middle order, the goal would not have looked unachievable.

However, the innings tapered off thereafter, and the sluggish knock from Rishabh Pant did not help the cause. Manish Pandey stayed put with a 35-ball 37, but at the end of the half-way mark, the Indian team would have genuinely felt the pinch of finishing around 15 runs short.