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India outplayed Pakistan: Woolmer
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer acknowledged that his side was completely outplayed by India.
Having been comprehensively beaten by India in the second one-dayer on Tuesday, Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer acknowledged that his side was completely outplayed by a better team.
"We were completely outplayed. We lost to a better team," Woomer said at the post-match media conference.
Woolmer traced the reasons for his side's 58-run defeat to the poor performance of the bowlers and the loss of wickets at regular intervals during their innings.
"We now have to rethink out plan. My bowlers allowed the Indian players to play too many strokes. They should have bowled better in the initial overs. I will surely look into the twin causes," the former England middle order bat said.
While praising Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his outstanding knock, Woolmer said the youngster also benefitted from the uninspiring show by the Pak bowlers.
However, he said that Dhoni's blistering knock did not take them by surprise. "We knew he could hit the ball hard."
Woolmer said neither the toss nor the weather could be blamed for his side's defeat. "One day is like a lottery. So, it doesn't make any sense to me when somebody says that the toss was crucial.
"If the weather was a factor, then the Indians would have been worse off. Because the conditions were more grueling when they were on the field," he said.
Describing Yousuf Youhana's batting and Rana Naved-ul Hasan's bolwling as the positives for Pakistan in the match, Woolmer, however, refused to buy a theory that the absence of Younis Khan had affected his team's performance.
"He hasn't been a factor in the one day variety of the game. It is difficult to accommodate him in the team,"
