Head coach Rahul Dravid. File
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Rahul Dravid underlined the significance of staying collectively and functioning as a unit to succeed within the powerful world of Test cricket whereas delivering a motivational dressing room speech after India registered a memorable 4-1 collection win over England.
After dropping the opening Test in Hyderabad, the hosts bounced again in gorgeous trend to win the following 4 matches to declare the collection.
“Series like this have to be earned and this is tough. Test cricket is hard at times. It’s hard in terms of your skill. It’s hard physically, as you’ve seen, it’s hard mentally,” Dravid mentioned in a video posted on BCCI.television.
“But it’s great satisfaction at the end of it. The satisfaction that you get winning a series like this coming from one behind to be able to win four. I think it’s just phenomenal,” he added.
As key players like Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami and KL Rahul, who performed solely the opener, have been unavailable, India discovered heroes in some young names within the collection. The house aspect handed debuts to 5 players — Rajat Paitidar, Dhruv Jurel, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan and Akash Deep — within the marquee collection.
In reality, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja too missed a Test each.
The Indian coach was a happy man after a few of these young names emerged with flying colors from the collection.
“For a lot of you young guys, especially coming into this group, you are going to need each other to succeed. Whether you’re a batsman or bowler or whatever you are, your success is tied in with other people’s success.
“All of you are invested in each other’s success. And that is actually essential going ahead. It’s not about your success, but it surely’s about how you may help other folks succeed, which will even assist you succeed,” he said.
The 51-year-old was delighted to see the players finding ways to turn the tide whenever they were put under pressure.
“There have been instances within the collection that we have been actually challenged and pushed and we discovered a method to bounce again, which speaks to the talents that we have now, the resilience that we have now, the character that we have now.
“On many occasions in this series the games could have gone either way. But we always found people in this dressing room who stepped up and turned the game our way. And that was fantastic.” Dravid additionally mentioned the staff additionally did properly to maximise advantageous positions.
“So, you not only need to win the games when you have to fight back, which we did really well. But you have to also win the games when you’re ahead and you don’t let the opposition come back in any situation.” The former India captain praised the staff for rising winners from a protracted, gruelling collection towards a high quality opposition.
“We talked about this at the start of the series as well. Irrespective of whether we win or lose this is going to teach us a lot — a five Test match series. You’re going to go through a lot of ups and downs.
“It’s a protracted collection, you’re going to be examined. And it was going to educate us rather a lot about us as players or some as a staff, and rather a lot about us and we have come by that exceptionally with terrific flying colors and we face challenges each on and off the sphere.”
