After losingthe match against England in ICC World Cup, India Captain Virat Kohli termedthe shorter side of the Edgbaston boundary bizarre and crazy and also pointedout fingers at the dimensions of the ground which he believed helped Englandopeners more at the start of the match.
However,Kohli did not directly refer the short 59-meter boundary on one side as one ofthe reasons behind India's 31-run defeat to England.
Taking fulladvantage of the short 59-meter Edgbaston boundary, England openers JonnyBairstow tackle the Indian wrist spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav.Bairstow put a blistering 160 run opening stand with Jason Roy (66) whichalways kept England ahead of the game.
Saying it acoincidence that the short boundary just falls under the limitations of theshortest boundary one can have in the tournament, Kohli said, "So quite bizarreon a flat pitch, it's the first time we have experienced that so it's crazythat things fall in place like that randomly."
While sayingabout Kuldeep and Chahal who had troubles dealing with unnatural shorter sideof the boundary, Kohli conceded that both could have been smarter with theirlines but believed the short boundary made their job way tougher than it shouldhave been.
The Indiancaptain, however, also admitted that his side was not clinical with the batwhile chasing 338 for victory adding that they should have accelerated andgotten closer but England bowled superbly. He also said that if they wereclinical with the bat and if the dismissals didn't happen at that time, theresult could have been different.
