Amre defends team decision to ask Dinda to bowl last over

Pune Warriors assistant coach Pravin Amre today defended his team's decision to ask listless Ashok Dinda to bowl the final few overs in their IPL game against Mumbai Indians that they lost by 41 runs here.
"That was the game plan. We wanted Bhuvneshwar Kumar to bowl in the beginning and Dinda at the death," said Amre at the post-match media conference at the Wankhede Stadium.
Dinda, who was very expensive in all his three spells, conceded 63 runs in his four overs and his poor display with the ball was a major factor in the Warriors suffering a comprehensive third defeat in four games.

Bhuvneshwar and Aaron Finch, who opened the bowling with his left-arm spin, had two overs each left from their quota at the end of the MI innings in which the hosts scored an imposing 183 for three.
Dinda was taken to the cleaners first by Sachin Tendulkar in his opening over in which he was hit for four fours and then by Rohit Sharma in the 17th and 20th overs.
Amre also conceded that the turning point in the match was when MI, powered by Sharma's belligerent 62 not out in 32 balls, took apart the visitors' bowling in the last four overs.

"The turning point came when 65 runs were scored in the last four overs. And then we lost three wickets inside the power play and in this format it mostly leads to defeat. Mumbai Indians did well in all departments of the game," said the former India batsman.