India vs England | Sanjay Bangar believes losing wickets induced MS Dhoni's slow innings

After Indian players Virat Kohli and Yuzvendra Chahal, Indian Assistant coach Sanjay Bangar has also backed up Dhoni, as he played a slow innings at Lord's and was jeered for making 37 runs off 59 balls. Kohli had defended his former captain during the post-match presentation ceremony by saying that people were quick to pass a judgment while Chahal had argued the same in the post-match press conference. Bangar said that Dhoni had to readjust his game because he kept on losing partners at the other end.

According to Bangar, Indian team's middle order is still a work in progress. He added that top order’s performance reduces the opportunity for the middle order to score handsomely.

The series has been leveled between the two teams as they both have one win each. However, KL Rahul platonic form has led to think about changing the middle order of the squad.

“Obviously, the plan was to have a left-hander batting in the middle-order. That is the reason why Suresh (Raina) was picked ahead of Dinesh (Karthik). We did change a bit in the T20 format, where KL batted at three and Virat batted at four. Looking at this series, and the performances that Virat has got at three, especially in the last series, he scored three hundreds versus South Africa in five games,” he said.

One more thing elemental is the availability of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. But for playing in the squad, the bowler will have to go through a fitness test.

“He's a quality bowler. We've obviously been missing our two frontline bowlers in the ODI format. Also provides us an opportunity, because there are not too many games to go before the World Cup- only 16 or 17 games. It gives us an ideal situation to test the bench strength,” he said.