Australian all-rounder Sean Abbott believes the bowlers need to execute better aftertheir thumping loss of 99 runs against India in the second ODI at the Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore. Australia conceded a massive total of 399 runs on the board after Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer scored 104 and 105 runs respectively.

Gill and Iyer added 200 runs for the second wicket whereas KL Rahul and Suryakumar Yadav scored 52 and 72.

Meanwhile, Australian bowlers could not hit the right line and length against the hosts. All-rounder Cameron Green took a beating as he conceded 103 runs in his 10-over quota. Furthermore, Sean Abbott also conceded 91 runs in his spell. In fact, at one stage it looked like India would post a massive score of 420 runs on the board.

India scored 97 runs in the last 10 overs as SKY added the finishing touches, scoring a blistering knock of 37-ball 72.

“We’ve obviously just not executed as well as we would have liked,” Abbott said after the loss. “It’s all well and good to say that we’ll take learnings out of these games and stuff like that, but we do need to execute better as a whole.”

“It showed today when we were bowling, and it was a little bit the same in South Africa as well, as soon as we missed the stumps we were punished.”

In fact, Abbott feels they bowled well in the death overs but they need to improve overall in their execution.

“Although we went for 400 again today, I thought the death bowling was pretty good,” Abbott said. “It can still be improved a lot. But like I’ve mentioned a couple of times already, our execution and bringing those stumps into play, owning our lengths and putting pressure on the batters that way certainly has to improve and I have no doubt that we’ve got a very skilled attack.”

The third ODI of the series will be played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot on Wednesday.