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Galle (Sri Lanka), July 22 (PTI) Completely outsmarted by Sri Lanka, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni today admitted that lack of experience in the pace attack and failure to build partnerships proved costly for his team in the opening Test here. India were without pace duo of Zaheer Khan and S Sreesanth and Dhoni said although the inexperienced seamers -- Ishant Sharma and debutant Abhimanyu Mithun did not fare too badly, the lack of experience showed.
"Looking at the conditions here, I think we lacked experience in bowling. It was a learning experience for the seamers, who did a decent job after the first day," Dhoni said after India succumbed to a 10-wicket defeat.
"It was not a kind of start that we were looking for. We lasted just three sessions today.
But there are some positives. It was good to see the way Mithun bowled and Sehwag also batted well.
"There are plenty of areas to work on. Hopefully we will learn from mistakes and come good in the next match," he said.
Dhoni described the double blow by Murali in successive deliveries which broke his partnership with Yuvraj Singh in the first innings to be the turning point of the match. "I think when we had a partnership going between me and Yuvraj Singh in the first innings, we were in a position to avoid the follow on and after that we could have been in a position where we could have saved the Test match.
"But Murali bowled two good deliveries and got both of us out. With the follow on enforced it was important to keep going and keep batting.
Then again when we got some kind of partnership going, Malinga got a couple of wickets. It was very difficult from that point of time.
"Once you lose your top six or seven batsman and if you don''t have too many runs on the board it becomes very difficult to come back into the game," Dhoni explained. More PTI TVS ATK MRM.
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