#4 Lack of a Do-or-Die specialist, India trailed after the first 20 minutes
When in trouble, a raider can amass points in a heap and ensure that the scoreboard keeps ticking. However, India who banked on the strategy of playing on the third raid, failed to understand the fact that they had no player who could assume the role of being an out-and-out raider, someone who could go in for the do-or-die raid, where there is no room for error.
The fact that India had won all their group stage matches by big margins meant that there was no need for one player to assume that role.
However, this hurt their cause in the humdinger against Iran, where in all likelihood, the in-form man Ajay should have been the go-to man, but his failure to fire in the first 20 resulted in India lagging by 5 points when they went into the break.
