LAHORE: The Australian captain, Josh Inglis has admitted his team fell “30–40 runs short” and took the responsibility for the middle-order implosion, while praising the fight shown in Pakistan’s chase.
Australian captain did not make excuses. He did not blame the pitch, the conditions, or the opposition. Instead, he did something rarer: he held his hands up and accepted responsibility. “I’ll hold my hands up. I’m accountable for that sort of collapse there,” Inglis admitted, his voice carrying the weight of a captain who had just seen his team’s batting order disintegrate around him. “If I’m batting another 10 or 15 overs and just taking the game deeper, I think we get to a good total.”
It was an honest, self-critical assessment from a player who had just scored his second consecutive half-century—65 off 70 balls—and watched from the non-striker’s end as his teammates fell in a procession.
Asked to evaluate Australia’s total, Inglis did not mince words. “I think if you get over 200 there, you’re probably winning the game,” he said. “But yeah, I think it was similar to the first game. We were probably 30 or 40 runs short at least. In the position we were in, we should have definitely got above 200.”
