Why was the Indian team's performance so bad in the Asia Cup?

 Why was the Indian team's performance so bad in the Asia Cup?

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Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma's facial expressions in the match against Sri Lanka on Tuesday were worth watching. When the third umpire declared KL Rahul out for lbw after watching the footage for about five minutes, Rohit Sharma's face showed concern.

Similarly, when Virat Kohli was bowled for a wicket at the other end, once again the worry was evident on Rohit Sharma's face.

But such disappointing expressions of Rohit Sharma were not seen only in this match. He was also troubled in the second match against Hong Kong.

The loss to Sri Lanka was the last nail in the coffin for the Indian cricket team, which almost eliminated them from the race for the Asia Cup final.

After all, what is the reason that the Indian team full of glamorous and star players could not perform well in the Asia Cup?

Poor bowling

Let's say Jasprit Bumrah is out of the team on break, and Harshal Patel is not in the team due to injury, but still the type of bowling that the Indian team has shown is unprecedented in recent times.

Apart from the first match against Pakistan, the Indian bowlers disappointed with their performance throughout the tournament.

The performance of the Indian bowlers in the match against Hong Kong was also below average. In this match, Hong Kong batsmen scored 97 runs in eight overs by Avish Khan and Arsdeep Singh. While Avish gave 53 runs in four overs, Arshad gave 44 runs in four overs.

India had won that match but captain Rohit Sharma's face showed how upset he was at the performance.

Along with this, in the Super Four matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the Indian batsmen scored around 180, but the bowlers could not defend this total and lost both the matches in the last over.

While Bhuvneshwar Kumar got his first bowling spell right in this tournament, he faced defeat in the last overs due to low pace.

Arsdeep Singh on the other hand bowled well for a few overs but his bowling also lacked experience and whenever the batsmen tried to attack Arsdeep they were successful.

Indian spinners also bowled well and commentators during the match said that India should not forget Kuldeep Yadav and should also give him another chance in the team.