New Delhi: Delhi captain Virender Sehwag said bowling the last over with Shoaib Malik was a collective decision, even though it boomeranged with the Chennai batsmen milking the required 15 runs for a thrilling four-wicket win.
Chennai's seventh wicket pair of S Badrinath and Manpreet Gony held on their nerves to smash the required runs off Malik's over but Sehwag said it was a collective decision to let Malik bowl the last over.
"I consulted my team-mates and they said either me or Malik should bowl (the last over). I thought he would do a better job than me, so I gave it to him," Sehwag said at the post-match press conference here.
"Such things happen in Twenty20, sometimes you are hit and sometimes you are not," he added.
Sehwag said 187 was not a small total and his batsmen, especially Gautam Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan, batted well but in the end he felt the absence of a fifth bowler.
"187 is not a small score. Gambhir and Dhawan batted superbly and then Yomahesh and Pradeep Sangwan did their job while bowling. Everything was going to our plan till the 15th over (of Chennai innings). At the end we lost at the last over," he rued.
Sehwag admitted his side felt the absence of a specialist fifth bowler which cost them dear on Thursday.
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