ICC Champions Trophy 2017: 5 reasons why teams have struggled in the middle overs

#3 Bad decisions

We’ve witnessed quite a few bad calls while running between the wickets

Not being able to rotate the strike freely has contributed to a lot of game-changing run-outs in the Champions Trophy this year. Just as it is considered to be a cardinal sin for a bowler to bowl a no-ball, it is similarly a mistake of epic proportions for key batsmen to lose their wickets thanks to sloppy running in crucial encounters.

The virtual Group B quarter-final between India and South Africa is a case in point where South Africa lost three batsmen in the form of run-outs. Two of those wickets were that of AB de Villiers and David Miller which saw them catapult from a stage of relative comfort at 140 for 2 to being bowled out for a paltry 191.

But that is not the only instance in this tournament. The run-outs of Dinesh Chandimal in the third match between Sri Lanka and South Africa was just as crucial which started Sri Lanka’s collapse, as is the case with the run-out of Shoaib Malik against India in their first match of Group B.