Chennai, Feb. 27 -- Sikandar Raza conceded that Zimbabwe's inability to stick to their defensive plans with the ball proved costly in their 72-run defeat to India in the Super Eights clash at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Thursday. A lack of discipline allowed India's batsmen to dominate, powering their way to 256/4.
"Certainly, I think we could have executed our defensive play slightly better as well. I think we ended up going at them with hammer and tongs, and unfortunately, there was a lot of mixed execution when we were bowling from all the bowlers, and they ended up getting a lot of those runs.
"Once the train gets going at that, it's hard to bring it back. So I thought, if one thing I would say is, I think we could have executed our...