If we keep dropping catches, we won't win games, says Sarfraz Ahmed

Pakistan lost to archrivals India for the second time in a week with the second one being the biggest defeat in their history. After Indian bowlers, especially the spinners, picked up early wickets, the middle order batsmen managed to raise a total of 237 runs for a loss of 7 wickets. However, Pakistani bowlers couldn't replicate the same as Indian openers, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan railed the blowing attack.

There had been a few loopholes though wherein Pakistani fielders made several glitches, the most important being Imam Ul-Haq dropping Rohit Sharma off a Shaheen Afridi's delivery, very early during the innings. Sharma went ahead to score an unbeaten 111 to register the win for India. And skipper Ahmed has stated that the team had to pay the price for missing out on such important opportunities. 

“We keep dropping catches, we won't win games. We've done hard work at fielding. So I'm not sure what's going wrong. I thought the pitch was difficult to bat on, that it would be hard for a new batsman to start here and for that reason we should have held on to our catches,” he said after the match. 

Sarfaraz also spoke highly of the Indian opening pair, Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, for their tremendous performance throughout the match. He mentioned that both the teams have certain differences in the skill set due to which Pakistan lagged behind, but they would try their best for the matches ahead.

“They had set batsman to do the job. We're trying to get early wickets, we're talking with the bowlers, and when we don't get them, with batsmen like Rohit and Dhawan, it's hard to come back. Their skill-level is high, ours is not quite there, but by the final, we'll get better. It's a do-or-die match for us in the next game (against Bangladesh), we'll do our best,” he concluded.