Do our players tend to over think in India matches?

[Savak]

I believe this is the case because the Pakistani team is most of the times in good form going into an India match but all of a sudden batsmen who naturally bat aggressively or at a decent strike rate tend to slow down, become defensive whereas if they were playing another side other than India they would perhaps be more care free and go about their games in a more casual go with the flow manner

 

[Mamoon]

Let's cut to the facts. Indian cricket left Pakistan cricket in its dust long time back, and they are simply a better team in all formats which is why they come out on top more often than not these days. The gap in quality is quite big.

 

[Mamoon]

What happened to those corny green championship mentality bands?

 

[Abdullah719]

Usually, yes.

Today, it was the opposite.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Let's cut to the facts. Indian cricket left Pakistan cricket in its dust long time back, and they are simply a better team in all formats which is why they come out on top more often than not these days. The gap in quality is quite big.

Agree. And just to back your claim with stats

Below are the list of Ind-Pak matches in this decade:

1) Asia Cup 2010 - India
2) World Cup 2011 - India
3) Asia Cup 2012 - India
4) WT20 2012 - India
5) U19 WC 2012 - India
6) Aane Do series - Pakistan
7) Champions Trophy 2013 - India
8) U23 Emerging cup (league game) - India
9) U23 Emerging cup (finals) - India
10) U19 WC 2014 - India
11) Asia cup 2014 - Pakistan
12) WT20 2014 - India
13) World cup 2015 - India
14) Asia cup 2016 - India
15) WT20 2016 - India
16) Champions Trophy league game - India
17) Champions Trophy finals - Pakistan
18) U19 WC 2018 - India
19) Asia cup 19th sept - India

 

[Savak]

Let's cut to the facts. Indian cricket left Pakistan cricket in its dust long time back, and they are simply a better team in all formats which is why they come out on top more often than not these days. The gap in quality is quite big.

Gap in quality or not, even in the 90's we ended up losing the pressure games vs them.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Gap in quality or not, even in the 90's we ended up losing the pressure games vs them.

This was a dead rubber and not a pressure game.

 

[Mamoon]

Gap in quality or not, even in the 90's we ended up losing the pressure games vs them.

That has always happened, but the 90's generation were chokers. This team not only buckles under pressure but lacks the quality as well. If you do not have the quality to begin with, I don't see the point in focusing too much on how to handle pressure.

 

[Mp812]

What happened to those corny green championship mentality bands?

Made in China...i guess

 

[Markhor]

We need to treat matches with India as any other match but the players make non-stop statements before the matches putting unnecessary pressure on themselves.

What didn't help is a lack of intense cricket before this match. The Zimbabwe ODI series was basically an extended nets session. This was the first time since NZ we've faced a quality ODI attack and were found wanting.

Hopefully on Sunday we'll have learned the lessons as we did after the drubbing against Australia in the recent T20 tri-series.

 

[hadi123]

Yes I think the players take pressure of the big match seriously and it gets to them.

 

[slice]

We need to treat matches with India as any other match but the players make non-stop statements before the matches putting unnecessary pressure on themselves.

What didn't help is a lack of intense cricket before this match. The Zimbabwe ODI series was basically an extended nets session. This was the first time since NZ we've faced a quality ODI attack and were found wanting.

Hopefully on Sunday we'll have learned the lessons as we did after the drubbing against Australia in the recent T20 tri-series.

well if you look back,apart from one or two wickets the rest were down to stupid shots on a pitch where scoring has been slow generally.

 

[Sherlock]

Yep. Been doing so for a long time too, except yesterday was the opposite of overthinking, let alone thinking

 

[TeamPak95]

*sigh, yea it would seem like it. Batting especially. Just straight up forget the basics of strike rotation...