London: A dejected India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today held his batting colleagues responsible for the team's aborted title defence in the Twenty20 World Cup and said there cannot be any excuse for their failure to chase down a modest victory target against England.
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Chasing 154 against the hosts in the do-or-die Super Eight match, India eventually halted at 150 for five to crash out of title defence and Dhoni had no doubt that the batsmen let the team down.
"We failed in batting. If the opposition scores 153 and you cannot achieve that on a track like this, I don't think there can be any excuse. You just cannot explain that," Dhoni curtly said.
"We lost simply because we did not bat well. I'm rather happy with the performance of the bowlers," he added.
Dhoni, however, was candid enough to admit that England bowlers had bounced India out of the match, sending down short-pitch stuff quite consistently.
"They started really well. They looked aggressive and used the bouncers really well. All of a sudden our batsmen could not change their game plan.
"They used short deliveries very well -- bouncers and slow bouncers. That really did the job for them," he said.
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