“I Just Felt We Left…”: Rahul Dravid’s Honest Admission On India’s Defeat In 1st Test | Cricket News

India head coach Rahul Dravid felt India’s mistake in the course of the 28-run defeat to England within the opening Test was leaving runs on the sector within the first innings and never capitalising on good begins. After India’s spinners compelled England to succumb to 246, Yashasvi Jaiswal (80), KL Rahul (86) and Ravindra Jadeja (87) guided India to a huge whole of 436.

All three batters regarded poised to an enormous time on area, however ultimately fell brief. Dravid emphasised on this reality within the post-match press convention and stated, “I thought we left probably 70 runs on the board in the first innings. You know, I think in our first innings, when conditions were pretty good to bat in on day two, I thought in the kinds of situations we got ourselves into, some good starts and we didn’t really capitalise.”

“We didn’t get a hundred, you know, we didn’t get somebody getting a really big hundred for us. So, in some ways, in India, I just felt we left those 70, 80 runs back in the hut in the first innings. Second innings is always going to be challenging. It’s one of those things that, you know, it’s tough. It’s not easy to chase 230 or it’s not done very often,” Dravid added.

Dravid went on to state that the present Test set-up options a variety of younger gamers, who’re nonetheless studying the artwork of enjoying lengthy innings.

“A lot of players are quite young, in the sense that a lot of these guys do play a lot of white-ball cricket and also maybe don’t get a lot of time to get to play a lot of first-class cricket as well. So they’re learning and I think they’re getting there. To be fair, there have been challenging wickets as well over the last few years. And it’s been a bit of a challenge for some of our young batsmen to adapt. But they’ve got the skill and they’ve got the ability, and they’ve not come here just like that; they’ve come here by scoring a lot of runs in domestic cricket, doing well in A-team cricket. So, you know, they are being picked on merit,” Dravid stated.

“Sometimes it does take time for people to adjust. They’re working really hard. I will say that, I mean, there’s a lot of thought going into a lot of their batting and for them… it’s just a question of them looking to constantly keep improving and developing skills that maybe help them counter these kind of conditions a little bit better,” Dravid added.

For the previous three days, India had been in full management of the Test and dominated the guests. But on Day 3, Ollie Pope stepped onto the crease and altered your entire complexion of the sport together with his reverse sweeps.

He not solely disregarded India’s 190-run lead however went on at hand England a goal that could possibly be defended on a tough floor together with his knock of 196.

“I haven’t seen a better exhibition of sweeping and reverse sweeping [than Ollie Pope] ever in these conditions against that quality of bowling. Having said that, for us now, it’s important that we respond and come up with some plans and some strategies and see how we can maybe make him play those shots from probably even more difficult lengths and be even more disciplined and even more meticulous with our execution,” Dravid stated.

“Because, I thought a little bit our execution went off. Not by much. Credit to him, but we were a little bit off and hopefully in the next Test match, if we get our execution right, then I hope he makes a mistake,” Dravid added.

India will face England within the second Test on February 2 on the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Andhra Pradesh.

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