India’s Ishan Kishan. File
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Following India’s loss to England in the second T20I at Manchester, Indian wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan said that the team needs to get better at understanding the conditions, adding that three no-balls bowled by spinner Ravi Bishnoi made things easy for Jacob Bethell, who changed the game with some brutal hitting in slog overs.

Kishan said that the team which played the match was “perfect” and backed the quality of the bowlers, pointing out their performances on flat decks.

He said that the team needs to understand the conditions and keep improving.

“It is just that when you do not win, there are a lot of thoughts coming in; a lot of “ifs and buts” are coming in.

“But at the same time, I feel all of them were very quality bowlers who have done well in the past and have made their team win in different situations, even bowling on very flat tracks and still getting wickets,” he said.

“So I do not think we could have done anything different looking at the team side. But yeah, as I said, we need to just understand what the conditions are here and how we can improve and what better we can do.

“Thoughts will keep coming in, but at the end of the day, we just need to understand the situation, like we are playing outside India, and what the pitch requires from us as a batter and as a bowler.”

Published – July 06, 2026 04:30 am IST