India’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate has urged the batters to first assess the conditions and then launch their attack against the opposition after a wobbly start against the USA. India found themselves under the cosh at 77-6 before Suryakumar Yadav came up with a rescue act. Yadav scored a match-winning knock of 84 runs off just 49 balls to lift India’s score to 161.

However, the former Dutch batter hinted that the team will need to re-look at their aggressive batting approach if they once again find themselves playing on a tricky wicket like the Wankhede.

“I think the way the modern game has moved, the instinct is to hit the ball first and often hit the ball for six, but there will certainly be the odd times where you have to apply yourself [better],” ten Doeschate offered. “I thought that the wicket in Mumbai did call out for a bit more application and maybe a change in strategy, particularly the situation we found ourselves in, losing a few wickets in the PowerPlay and then being six down at 70, it did need an adaption and thankfully our captain came good.”

Doeschate reckons the batting confidence comes from the skill system of the batters but they want to be adaptive according to the conditions on offer.

“I think the [batting] confidence comes from the skill system, the body of work that they’ve put in over the last two years. They’ve done it many times and it’s turned out great, it’s not an abnormal thing for these players. But the wickets haven’t played quite the way we thought yet and again we want to be adaptive and we should have been a lot better than we were at Mumbai and [that’s] something we will address,” ten Doeschate said.

India will next take on Namibia at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi on Thursday.