Cheteshwar Pujara: I genuinely feel that if India hadn’t enforced the follow-on, they had a better…

“ I genuinely feel that if India hadn’t enforced the follow-on, they had a better chance of winning this game. Because if you look at this bowling line-up, when you have bowled 90 overs in Sri Lankan conditions, which is very hot and humid, you dehydrate a lot, there is very less time for a player to recover. And then when you get onto the field for another, say, 80-90 overs, and you have that pressure of picking up 10 wickets. I know there was plenty of time left in the game, but there is pressure. Because you are bowling on a pitch which is still good to bat on. And that’s why I felt that India shouldn’t have enforced the follow-on and should have batted for at least 30-40 overs,

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