Can Indian team handle pressure of T20?
With the cream of IPL in his side,
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today said his men are more equipped than
their counterparts to handle pressure situations associated with the shortest
format of the game when they defend their ICC World Twenty20 title.
Dhoni said although other teams have
players who featured in the IPL, his side has an upper hand in the biennial
event starting here on June 5 as all the 15 members of the Indian squad have
featured in the just-concluded IPL in South Africa.
"The best thing is that we will
know more how to handle pressure, when in the last over you need 10 or 15 runs,
everyone in our side has faced that situation. There are quite a few players
from other countries but most of our players were in the Indian Premier
League," Dhoni told reporters at the official press conference here.
"In IPL you have limited talent
in your side, but here we have plenty of options. We have the cream of the IPL
so there is less pressure on each and every individual," he added.
Dhoni, however, warned his
team-mates against complacency and said the defending champions cannot afford
to take any side lightly.
"In Twenty20, there is no such
thing as a weak side, any individual can take the game away from you. We also
can't live on or relish the memories, we have to turn up and do everything from
scratch again, it's not about the past," Dhoni said pointing to their
triumph in the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa two years back.
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