Breaking down the World Cup marketing campaign to 1 sport at a time has outlined India’s profitable path thus far. The idea was as soon as once more elaborated upon by coach Rahul Dravid within the pre-match press convention on the Eden Gardens right here on Saturday.
“We’re simply trying on the match forward. We now have a league match to play, and South Africa is an effective staff. We aren’t pondering too far forward and the place this marketing campaign will finish. We’re specializing in what we will do, and now we have been doing nicely thus far. If the opposite staff nonetheless outplays us, nicely, we’ll shake arms and transfer on,” Dravid mentioned forward of Sunday’s conflict towards South Africa.
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The coach was pleased with the best way Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav batted lately. “It was unlucky that Shubman picked up dengue and missed to start with. He did nicely to return again and rating. As for Shreyas we at all times knew that he had the power, simply that he was not changing his begins, however within the sport towards Sri Lanka, he realised that he had a platform, and he went massive. Suryakumar has additionally completed nicely, he was capable of change gears and decelerate when wickets fell and on the similar time, he’s the sort of participant, who may add fast runs ultimately,” Dravid mentioned.
In all of the speak about India’s speedsters, Dravid felt that the spinners have gone underneath the radar. “Ravindra Jadeja has completed rather well, bowling tight, getting us these essential runs, and he has at all times been an excellent fielder. Kuldeep Yadav too, has bowled nicely, however I believe each have gone just below the radar and never bought the credit score that they need to have,” the coach mentioned.