It is not easy to play one-off games, says Shardul Thakur

India pacer Shardul Thakur feels it is never easy to come off the bench and perform straight away in highpressure games and he too felt the heat in the seriesdeciding third and final ODI against England here Thakur came in for Siddarth Kaul as India went for a newlook pace attack in the series decider against Leeds on Tuesday but ended up losing the game by eight wickets thanks to Joe Roots 13th ODI hundred Thakur ended with figures of 51 for one in 10 oversI played the last game in South Africa when we had won that series and it wasnt a necessary win for us Playing this game I was obviously a bit nervous because it is the series decider When you are put under pressure its a players responsibility to put forward your agame Sometimes the results go your way sometimes they dont Thakur said after the loss yesterdayWhen given opportunity in a oneoff game my mindset is always to win the game for team when I step on the field While playing this game it was the same Also when I am put in different teams whether I am put in IndiaA or in domestic cricket it is always the same he said India were restricted to 2568 after being put into bat and Thakur along with the rest of the bowling attack lacked penetration against Root and Eoin Morgan who put on an unbeaten 186run partnership for the third wicketIt means that India who won the T20I series 21 have now lost the ODI series by the same margin after winning the Nottingham ODI by eight wickets and suffering an 86run defeat at Lords The fiveTest series begins in Birmingham on August 1 Its unfortunate that we lost this game If you see overall we have done quite well Keeping the World Cup in mind which is next year I think whatever batsmen have learnt from this T20 series and ODIs will be usefulHow to bat in these conditions and for bowlers how to bowl in these conditions I think it is very important And going forward in this years cricket whichever games we play I think our team would execute what we want to do he added The Men in Blue did have their chances in the game when Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan put on 71 runs for the second wicket But the latters runout led to a middleorder collapse that saw India placed at 1585 and never recovering after thatThakur said that was where India lost the game while the English batsmen negotiated Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav quite well when faced with a belowpar target Shikhar and Virat were going really strong If they had continued to bat till 40th over maybe it would have been different and we could have put up 300 The wickets we lost in the middle overs made the difference said ThakurEngland played really well against Kuldeep If you saw the pitch it had changed and got slower They were playing spin easily on the backfoot and taking singles So they played them very well he added This series was built up as a dress rehearsal for the 2019 World Cup but the last two losses have highlighted Indias many deficiencies starting from the middle order to a long tail to overdependency on the toporderIn light of Indias loss against the number one ranked ODI side Thakur said England were favourites for the World Cup next summer They are obviously favourites because these are their home conditions England know them better how to play cricket here so other teams have a big challenge to play here They have played well against Australia recently and now against us so it will be difficult to beat them But when we do come back for the World Cup we will be all geared up Thakur signed offCatch up on all the latest T20 news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis 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