The seamless transition of Indian cricket is a tribute to the strong home sytem and the staff setting, Indian head coach Rahul Dravid has stated.
Dravid is now overseeing the transition part as a head coach, sometthing he was a part of when he together with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly handed the baton to MS Dhoni.
Shubman Gill has taken the No 3 position occupied by Cheteshwar Pujara after the departure of Dravid, whereas 20-year-old lefthander Yashasvi Jaiswal made the opening slot his personal with a mature 171 on debut, within the first Check in opposition to the West Indies.
Their innings and 141 run win additionally marked two time runners-up India’s begin to the recent World Check Championship cycle of 2023-27.
“It’s a tribute to the home system,” Dravid stated within the media interplay on the eve of the second and last Check of the sequence right here.
“It’s a tribute to the setting across the staff that a whole lot of younger gamers are in a position to are available in and carry out straightaway.
“Loads of credit score ought to go to the home system for producing these sort of gamers, particularly within the batting division, and likewise the relaxed setting the staff right here has been in a position to create to permit younger gamers to come back and categorical themselves.
“So it’s good from our perspective as a coach to see younger gamers are available in, carry out straightaway and do rather well, whether or not it’s Yashasvi within the final sport or the best way Shubman has grown over the past six-eight months or seeing the best way Ishan (Kishan) got here in and saved within the final sport on a tough wicket, he did a very good job.
“So there’s been a whole lot of younger gamers, we’ve seen even in a single days and T20s, who’ve come via and accomplished rather well. So yeah, credit score to our home system, NCA and a whole lot of different individuals who could make that potential for us.” Dravid additionally had a phrase of warning to the kids and stated they must face stronger challenges forward.
“I do know that folks like Jaiswal and Gill can be confronted with different more durable challenges and extra challenges as they go on they usually play extra cricket. , groups will begin attending to know them higher,” Dravid stated.
“I believe even on this Check, we’ll see the West Indies will most likely give you techniques and techniques. Having seen Jaiswal within the final Check match, they’ll reply to that and that’ll be the problem for Jaiswal in addition to to answer the techniques and the methods that the West Indies are going to give you on this sport.
“In the present day, I believe as a younger participant, when you get recognized and when you begin performing properly, groups begin planning and making ready for you higher, so it’s good to reply to that as properly.
“So trying ahead to that, however actually excited to see his expertise and to see how properly he carried out and simply the best way he tailored I used to be actually happy to see that he was prepared to play an attacking sport when required but additionally knuckle down and be defensive and work exhausting for his runs when it’s required, and as a coach nothing pleases you greater than that,” he added.
‘Don’t consider in counting chickens’
The schedule of the Asia Cup is out. The event, which might be the construct as much as the World Cup, will see India-Pakistan blockbuster conflict in Kandy on September 2.
Clubbed in the identical group, arch-rivals might conflict thrice — league part, super-4 and last — over the course of 19 days event starting on August 30.
“I don’t consider in counting my chickens an excessive amount of. I need to play one sport at a time,” Dravid stated on the prospect of taking up Pakistan thrice.
“We all know we’ve to play Pakistan and Nepal within the first two video games, we have to give attention to that, we have to play good cricket, we have to win these video games after which see the place the event goes.
“If we get the chance to play them thrice, I believe that’s incredible, which means we attain the ultimate of the event and hopefully Pakistan attain the ultimate as properly.” “That can be a terrific contest and nice for us and we definitely purpose to try this, we definitely need to play proper as much as the ultimate and win that last however we’ve to take the primary two steps earlier than.
‘WI will rise once more’
West Indies might have hit all-time low following their failure to qualify for the ODI World Cup, however Dravid stated there’s no dearth of expertise and they might rise once more with emphasis on infrastructure and sources.
The ODI World Cup qualifiers earlier this month shook the cricketing world, when the West Indies, the winners of the primary two editions of the showpiece, after their successive losses to hosts Zimbabwe, the Netherlands and Scotland.
“Sure, from a West Indies perspective, I can sense and other people have spoken concerning the disappointments they do really feel,” Dravid stated.
“However one of many nice issues that folks have right here within the Caribbean is simply the love of the game and the way they’re eager to get behind and nonetheless rally across the West Indies, regardless of the tough conditions.
“I don’t see any dearth of expertise right here. I see nice expertise, I see nice potential and I’m positive that simply with the correct of possibly emphasis on infrastructure and sources, I don’t see why West Indies cricket can’t return to the glory days.” Dravid was additionally fast to level out that it’s within the white ball cricket the West Indies as a cricketig nation has suffered, in contrast to in Check format.
As a matter of reality, the West Indies had misplaced simply considered one of their final six Check sequence at dwelling — in opposition to South Africa (2021).
The Windies had overwhelmed Bangladesh and England, whereas sequence in opposition to Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been drawn.
“So , I believe we have to put issues in perspective as properly,” Dravid stated.
“Whereas sure, I believe the strain and the problem that the present technology of West Indian gamers face, is that they all the time get in comparison with the good West Indian sides of the 80s and the 90s.
“, this late 70s, the 80s and the 90s or among the groups within the 50s and the 60s and that’s not a simple comparability for anybody to match your staff in opposition to a legendary staff just like the one which Clive Lloyd led or Viv Richards led. I believe that’s gonna be robust for anybody. , it’s not going to be straightforward,” he signed off.