Losing quick wickets hurt us, says Dhoni

Losing quick wickets hurt us, says Dhoni
Manchester: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said losing quick wickets at crucial junctures hurt the team badly in Wednesday's loss to England in the one-off Twenty20 international.
"Partnership is key, doesn't matter what format it is. Once you lose quick wickets, like we did after 12 overs, it doesn't help. You want to have at least five or six wickets in the slog overs," said Dhoni after India lost by six wickets.

India failed to play out their quota of 20 overs and were bowled out for 165 in 19.4 overs after being 104/1 in the 13th over.
The skipper added that he was eyeing those extra 15-20 runs to make up for the lack of fifth bowler.
"Since we didn't have the fifth bowler, we wanted to push a bit hard. We wanted to get those extra 15-20 runs and in the process we lost quick wickets.
"Once you lose quick wickets, it becomes difficult. Virat (Kohli) hasn't bowled much in Twenty20 format and there were two part-time off-spinners."
Those four overs cost India 48 runs, which proved to be too much in the end.
Dhoni also ruled out the possibility of India going in with five bowlers in the forthcoming one-day series.
"In the last two years, we haven't played with five bowlers. I don't see it happening now. We don't want to play with a batter light (less)."
Two bright aspects for India were the batting of young opener Ajinkya Rahane who made 61 and Rahul Dravid who slammed three sixes in his knock of 31 runs.
"Rahane expressed himself. He didn't worry too much about the occasion. Whenever the ball was in his area, he scored most off them. He got over 50 runs which was critical for us.
"As for Dravid, he tends to take the leg to the ball in longer formats of the game but here he needed to take the leg out of the line of the ball. That's what you sometimes need to do in international cricket."