Just think of the previous match, similar scenario happened with the West Indies team. No player was able to add a wicket to their name and finally close to the winning Shubman Gill lost his wicket. There needs to be consistency in performance with both the teams. The same West Indies team defended India with the target score of 149 runs in the first match taking 9 wickets and the same team struggled to take a single wicket in the fourth T20 match. So we can't point bowlers as the reason for the loss of the final match. Compromised performance is the possible way to keep the winning.
Whatever we say in the final match of this series, West Indies gave a great performance in batting and bowling due to which they were able to beat India by 8 wickets in the final match. We have noticed some obvious mistakes in terms of captaincy, if Hardik Pandya could have made some bowling changes in time then the result of the match could have been different.
A 165-run win against West Indies is possible if economical bowling is done. We shouldn't have any doubts about the bowling line-up of the Indian team as they fielded the best bowling XI but the bad thing is that they did not bowl according to the plan due to which they did not succeed in restricting the West Indies to 165 runs.
The sooner India forgets the West Indies tour series, the sooner they can prepare for the Asia Cup. I don't think West Indies should focus on the Asia Cup now after reading about what went wrong on their tour.
I definitely think that India should have given a bigger target for West Indies. The start was really bad for India. Both of the openers were not able to do basically anything. And I also expected better performance from the Captain Hardik Pandya. I definitely think the target could have been something better. But at the same time, I also agree that the bowling performance of India was not good as well. It seems like in the last decider match. India failed to perform in both batting and bowling. West Indies also gave India extra 11 runs.
Anyway, the batting performance of West Indies was really good. They started well and it was also good to see that one opening batsmen was there till the end and made sure that West Indies win the match. I don’t want India to actually think about this too much as they were experimenting anyway. That’s the best way they will be able to prepare for the Asia cup.