Former India head coach Rahul Dravid on Wednesday mentioned the assist workers strived to hold the energetic “workforce ambiance” from the ODI World Cup in 2023 to the T20 showpiece, and the method helped the workforce to finish a barren run in ICC tournaments.
Dravid masterminded India’s triumph within the T20 World Cup within the Americas earlier than signing off from his function as the pinnacle coach.
“Actually, I didn’t wish to do something totally different. I believe we ran a implausible marketing campaign within the one-day World Cup, Rohit and the workforce, everybody concerned in that one-day World Cup, we ran an outstanding marketing campaign,” Dravid mentioned on the Ceat Cricket Ranking Awards right here.
India had suffered a heartbreaking defeat towards Australia within the ODI World Cup ultimate at Ahmedabad.
“There’s nothing we may have accomplished extra when it comes to our preparation, the planning, the execution of what we wanted to do for 10 video games in a row to dominate, to win the sport we did, play the sport we did,” mentioned Dravid.
The Bengaluru man mentioned he and the remainder of the teaching workers didn’t wish to break the set sample of a cordial dressing room.
“I didn’t wish to change something. When you’d requested me and we had a dialogue with our assist workers, we’d get along with the coaches and say, what do you assume we must always do in a different way?” “The frequent consensus (among the many workforce) was we have to do precisely what we did. We have to create the identical power, create the identical vibe, the identical workforce ambiance that we had after which simply hope that on the day, we’ll have just a little little bit of luck,” he mentioned.
Although he didn’t expertise taking part in in a World Cup in both of the limited-over codecs in India, he was capable of soak in all of the elation as the pinnacle coach.
“To journey throughout this nation and to have the ability to expertise that pleasure and fervour of the followers. I’ve by no means been part of a World Cup as a participant in India, however simply the expertise as a coach to go from metropolis to metropolis and simply stroll and see what this recreation meant to the individuals of this nation was phenomenal. It was unimaginable,” he mentioned.
Dravid mentioned Australia have been the higher workforce through the ODI World Cup ultimate.
“I believed we ran an outstanding marketing campaign. We got here unstuck within the ultimate and Australia performed higher cricket than us on the day. They have been a greater workforce and congratulations (to them). That may occur in sport and that’s what sport is about,” he mentioned.