Axar Patel reveals his frustrations with inconsistent game time but insists he sees it a positive light

It is a little tough to cool his heels after a couple of games but Axar Patel wants to put his best foot forward in his bid to use every opportunity that comes along his wayA likeforlike replacement of Ravindra Jadeja the leftarm spinner and useful lowermiddleorder batter is still not an India regular although he he has 50 plus wickets in ODIs since 2014It is a little tough when you play two matches and suddenly youve to sit out Axar said at the postmatch press conference after Indias 13run win over Zimbabwe in the third ODIAnd then again you play two or three matches Its tough but I back myself and train my mind to think that this is the opportunity for you to do well he addedIn a bid to strengthen its bench for the future and regulate the workload of its top players the Indian team management which has an abundance of talent at its disposal keeps rotating cricketersAxar feels in such a situation it is good to keep a positive mindset and treat every game as an opportunityIf I do well here Ill get to play the next game I can also play with the cribbing mindset that I get dropped after getting a couple of opportunities but I take it in a positive way that Im getting an opportunity to perform for India If I do well Ill improve myself So its on you how you take itIndia completed a 30 sweep of hosts Zimbabwe here on MondayThe leftarm spinner snared two wickets while giving away 30 runs in his 10 overs which also included a rare maiden over in the third ODIAlso Read ICC ODI rankings India maintain third spot Pakistan up to fourth placeI thought this used pitch was a little bit dry and had something for the spinners I bowled from the other end and tried to bowl the on stump lines I was just waiting for the batter to commit some mistake and fortunately I got a maidenShubman Gill struck his maiden ODI hundred as he scored a 97ball 130The way hes batting the way hes converting singles and doubles the way hes not playing a lot of dot balls that to me is the biggest positive Axar saidWhen hes batting there are always singles and twos coming and hes able to put the bad balls for boundaries He players spinners well rotates the strike and even plays the sweep and reverse sweep wellAxar felt the Indian bowlers executed their plans in the threematch seriesThe bowlers were executing their plans It was good to see the way Avesh Khan was bowling the yorkers and slower ones The way Shardul Thakur was mixing up his slower ones and wide yorkersDeepak Chahar got three wickets in his comeback match The way we were executing the plans was a big positive he concludedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever