Men in Blue emerged victorious 4-1 against Australia in a five-match T20I series despite fielding a young team under the leadership of Suryakumar Yadav. Though the scoreline shows complete dominance by the Indian team, there were several issues that the management would like to address before next year’s T20 World Cup. Former India cricketer Aakash Chopra highlighted one of the most serious worries, questioning the team’s death bowling abilities in the absence of senior pacer Jasprit Bumrah.

With senior pacers such as Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, and Mohammed Siraj rested for the Australia series, India relied on the fast-bowling unit of Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar, and Avesh Khan. Apart from Bumrah, too many expert death bowlers are not there. This could be a big problem for team India for the T20I World Cup, that who will bowl at the death. There will be day games and reverse swing will be in play. Arshdeep is not doing that well, Chopra said.

Arshdeep bowled a good last over in the final match but he is not bowling as well as he was doing a year ago. Death bowling could be a concern. India will have to work on that if they want to win the ICC event. There is nothing like want, they have to win, but for that, they have to try, he added.

Chopra also mentioned India’s upcoming tour of South Africa, stating that the Proteas will be slight favorites in the series. I don’t see a chance of a clean sweep anywhere. We are not playing a very good team in ODIs and they are also not playing a very good team. However, the conditions will still favor them and they have had a decent World Cup, Chopra concluded.