{"id":248922,"date":"2025-11-07T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:58:13","slug":"we-planned-it-smartly-shivam-dube-reveals-indias-bowling-strategy-in-48-run-win-over-australia-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248922\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We planned it smartly&#8217;: Shivam Dube reveals India&#8217;s bowling strategy in 48-run win over Australia | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/team-india.jpg\" alt=\"'We planned it smartly': Shivam Dube reveals India's bowling strategy in 48-run win over Australia\" title=\"Team India (Pic credit: BCCI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Team India (Pic credit: BCCI) NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Shivam Dube credited tactical planning and composure under pressure for India&#8217;s commanding 48-run victory over Australia in the fourth T20I on Thursday, which handed the visitors an unassailable 2-1 lead in the five-match series.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>Speaking after the match, Dube said India&#8217;s total of 167 for 8 was more than defendable given the ground dimensions and bowling strength.<\/p>\n<p>India coach Morne Morkel on Arshdeep Singh, update on Nitish Kumar Reddy and T20 World Cup plans<\/p>\n<p>\u201c167 on this ground is definitely a good score because of the quality bowling we have \u2014 the spinners, the fast bowlers. I trust them and the whole team trusts our bowlers,\u201d Dube said at the post-match press conference.India&#8217;s bowlers backed up that confidence with a clinical display, bundling out Australia for 119 in 18.2 overs. Dube, who picked 2 for 20, explained that exploiting the larger boundaries was central to their plan.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>How important do you think tactical planning is in T20 cricket?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan was to bowl on the sides which have bigger boundaries because it&#8217;s difficult to hit big \u2014 the boundaries were 80 metres plus,\u201d he revealed. \u201cWe knew it won&#8217;t be easy to hit, no matter how well you connect. So, the idea was to bowl smartly and force set batters to target the bigger sides.\u201dDube also credited India&#8217;s coaching staff \u2014 head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/gautam-gambhir\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gautam Gambhir<\/a>, bowling coach <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/morne-morkel\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morne Morkel<\/a>, and captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/suryakumar-yadav\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suryakumar Yadav<\/a> \u2014 for his growing confidence as a bowler.\u201cMorne, Gauti bhai, and Surya prepared a good plan for me. Morne also gave small but useful tips that made my bowling better,\u201d he said.Promoted to No. 3, Dube contributed 22 off 18 balls and revealed that he had worked specifically on handling bounce ahead of the tour.\u201cIn nets, I practised a lot on short balls because the bounce is more here. The plan was to rotate strike against pacers and attack the spinners,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team India (Pic credit: BCCI) NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Shivam Dube credited tactical planning and composure under pressure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,18855,103911,103912,101622,103913,36820,101,38346,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-248922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-gautam-gambhir","tag-india-bowling-strategy","tag-india-cricket-team-performance","tag-india-vs-australia-t20i","tag-morne-morkel","tag-shivam-dube","tag-sports","tag-suryakumar-yadav","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}