Known for penchant for bowling some tight spells towards the end of an innings to choke the opposition , Bhuvneshwar threw some light on his mental approach towards the game. The seamer added that his thought process while executing his skills with the ball are pretty much like former India skipper M.S. Dhoni.
"Like M.S. Dhoni, I try to detach myself from the result and focus on small things, which I also refer to as process. And this helps in getting the desired outcome. During IPL when I had a couple of good seasons, I was in this 'zone'. I was so focused on my process, that the result had become secondary. And results were positive," he said.
"If I am bowling the last over to Andre Russell and I have to defend 14 runs, the first thing I'll think of is the ground that I am bowling at and its dimensions. Then I'll plan where I want to bowl to him and hope he misses a ball or mistimes his shot. He is the kind of batsman, against whom your luck matters a lot. "
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Commenting on India not winning any ICC tournament for long, Bhuvneshwar said, "The last we won was the Champions Trophy in 2013. And since then, there have been only 3-4 ICC tournaments and we have made it to the semis or the finals about 2-3 times.
In 2015 World Cup we lost to Australia in the semi-final. And in 2019 World Cup, it was bad luck. An early loss of three top order batsmen cost us the game. It rarely happens that in a match after dismissing the opposition for under 250, you are get bowled out.
"In that entire World Cup, Rohit Sharma had scored five or six centuries, K.L. Rahul was in good form, Virat Kohli played as always and we had MS Dhoni as well in the team. Even in the 2017 Champions Trophy final, things changed after Jasprit Bumrah's no-ball. It's not like we've had a one-sided loss or we went down without a fight. We've always lost due to an unfortunate event or incident. Although, the 2017 Champions Trophy final was a one-sided loss where they outplayed us. And it's difficult to pin-point the exact reason for the loss. But losing these knockout matches masks the fact that we actually played very well through those tournaments."