The Indian cricketers cut up into two teams limbered up with some warm-up sport, kicking a soccer throughout a line of chairs.
A kite swooped low earlier than taking off into the skies. Outside, Wallajah Road swelled with visitors heading in the direction of the Marina Beach and adjoining localities. It was a Friday night time of anticipation on the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium because the hallowed venue was being readied for Sunday’s World Cup conflict between India and Australia.
If there have been any nerves throughout the ranks, coach Rahul Dravid did effectively to masks it as he was his ordinary self at a media interplay – calm and equally vulnerable to some self-deprecatory humour.
Asked a few secure whole on Indian surfaces, he dead-panned: “One run more than the opposition.”
He then defined, “It’s hard to tell. In some of the squares in India, you have red soil and black soil and you have a mix of red and black. Each one is going to be unique. I don’t think you can go and say that this is going to be a safe total. You have to adapt. Ground sizes will be different. We will play on a relatively bigger ground in Chennai compared to, say, when we go to Bangalore or Delhi.”
There was an interlude about New Zealander Rachin Ravindra’s first identify that blends Rahul and Sachin and Dravid grinned and mentioned, “(I was) watching him bat yesterday, he hit five sixes. Maybe, the Sachin in (the name) helped him certainly.”
Dravid acknowledged that he had moved on from his enjoying days and, as a coach, it was all about serving to gamers be in area.
“Adaptability is going to be a huge challenge in this World Cup. It is important to build a squad that allows us to play in two to three different conditions and, based on those (factors), we will mix some of those squads.”
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The coach was expansive when it got here to supporting ODIs.
“It is still an important format. I sincerely hope that we still keep valuing and playing this format because, just to give you an example, (Mohammed) Siraj’s spell in the Asia Cup final, I mean that was really top-class bowling of six overs.
“In a T20 game, you (would) never see that. It (ODIs) still allows you to see good innings like the ones from those left-handers (Devon Conway and Ravindra), it allows you to see a lot of good spin, rotation of strike and a lot of creativity.”
Dravid additionally backed Suryakumar Yadav to return good in ODIs.
“We have been chatting with him a little bit about finding different ways to score runs. We know that his preferred route of scoring runs in the T20 format has been square of the wicket but in one-day cricket, you have got to find other ways, other areas to access, and credit to him, he is working really hard,” he mentioned.
Decades in the past, Dravid was a daily in Chennai’s league cricket and all that distilled expertise would possibly turn out to be useful as his wards launch their World Cup marketing campaign over the weekend.
Source web site: sportstar.thehindu.com
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