Veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was noticed pulling the legs of Team India’s fielding coach T Dilip throughout a coaching session forward of the ICC ODI World Cup semi-final in opposition to New Zealand.
Ashwin appears to be having fun with his time within the Indian dressing room, and the spinner dropped a video of his banter with Dilip on Instagram. Taking a dig at Dilip’s large package baggage, Ashwin wrote within the caption, “Toy shop or stationery shop?”
The clip opens on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai the place the Indian cricketers had been going by means of their last apply session on the eve of the World Cup semi-final. When T Dilip was coaching his gamers for prime catches, Ashwin determined to take a look inside his package baggage, which had been stuffed with cricket equipment, particularly meant for fielding apply.
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As Ashwin opened the primary bag, he discovered a number of balls inside it. The different bag had a number of specifically designed bats. While one in every of them is manufactured from rubber, the opposite one is a wood baseball bat. Dilip later defined to Ashwin concerning the utilization of every bat. From the wicketkeeper to fielders positioned at slips, Dilip has appropriate bats for everybody. In the tip, Ashwin spoke concerning the best-fielder award, whereas referring to the Alan Border medal, which is awarded to the most effective cricketer in Australia yearly.
The introduction of fielding medals has definitely benefitted the Indian workforce on this World Cup as each participant is as much as give their greatest on the bottom. However, in line with T Dilip, this tradition has been happening contained in the dressing room for the final 4 months. After India claimed a 160-run win over the Netherlands within the final league match, Dilip spoke concerning the rationale behind these ‘Fielder of the Match’ awards in the course of the post-match press convention.
“Basically, it is about judging attitude. Yes, there are statistics for catches taken but we look at the overall contribution. An innings has 300 balls, how do you handle them on the field? This is not just about one brilliant catch, it is about the overall effort. We have been doing this for a while, at least for the last four months. But only now it has gone on social media,” Dilip stated.
Suryakumar Yadav was chosen as the most effective fielder of the Netherlands sport. KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja had been additionally in competition. But Surya edged previous them as a consequence of his total efficiency within the match. He acquired the award from the groundsmen.
