It was an important game last night and what looked like a sticky end for India, turned out to be an ice skating rink for Virat Kohli, eventually. It was match winning innings on Kohli’s part, almost a routine drill for the Indian vice-captain now, and amidst all the celebrations, critics have found something to worry about. After Dhoni’s statement at the post-match press meet that the top order batsmen must buckle up, critics have begun claiming that the Indian cricket team is getting dangerously dependent on Virat Kohli – a reminiscent of the 90s when Tendulkar was the only saving grace on almost every occasion. Agreed, the performance hasn’t been balanced among the batting line-up, it’d still be an over-analysis to conclude that Indian cricket is becoming a one-man show. Here’s why: It takes two to tango in between the 22 yards Although, it does hold true that most of the damages against the Aussies were made by Virat in yesterday’s match, but the two crucial partnerships played a key role here. First, it was Yuvraj Singh – a man who has been the butt of ridicule lately – whose thankless 21 runs and a major support to Kohli on the other side of the strike was a key factor that slowly took the match away from the Kangaroos.

The game has changed a lot since

With the power-plays coming into the feature, cricket has evolved to something much more demanding. Scoring runs alone does not win you matches anymore as no score is big enough and when it comes to T20, a whole lot of things come into play which was mostly ignored during the 90s. Sloppy fielding was almost synonymous to Indian cricket and so was bad running between the wickets.

It’s an over-all field play that counts at the end of the day

Fortunately, players today are fit as a tack and every single run cut short off the opponents score with the lickety-split fielding is the ghost element that wins matches for India. Take the match against Bangladesh for instance. When the match was almost over for India, it was the 34-year-old legs of Dhoni that sprinted like a Kangaroo, stumping Mustafizur Rahman before he could take the one run that would cost India dearly.

Here’s the thing: when the team struggles, someone has to step up and there’s nothing alarming about it. This is one of the finest, most balanced Indian team in years which looks quite set to bring the World Cup home one more time.