IND vs NZ: Workforce India head coach Rahul Dravid© Twitter
Newly-appointed India chief coach Rahul Dravid says the 3-0 end result over New Zealand augurs effectively for the staff within the long-run however on the identical time, he’s life like sufficient to not learn an excessive amount of into the general consequence with Black Caps having to play the collection three days after the T20 World Cup closing. Among the key gamers from each groups had been rested for the collection as a part of workload administration. “It was a very good collection win. Everybody performed rather well proper by way of the collection. It feels good, good to start out effectively. We’re additionally fairly life like.
“We now have to maintain our toes on the bottom and be a bit life like about this win,” Dravid mentioned on the post-match presentation right here.
The collection was additionally Dravid’s first task as head coach. The Kiwis had reached Jaipur for the collection opener lower than 24 hours after shedding the World Cup closing to Australia in Dubai.
“Not straightforward for NZ to play a World Cup closing after which to show up three days later and play three video games in six days, was by no means going to be straightforward for them. It was good from our perspective however we’ve got to be taught from this collection and transfer ahead.
“It is a lengthy journey forward over the subsequent two years and we’ll have our share of ups and downs.”
India additionally rested a few of their essential gamers together with the likes of Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja. New Zealand gave relaxation to their skipper Kane Williamson.
India additionally gave debut caps to IPL performers Venkatesh Iyer (Kolkata Knight Riders) and Harshal Patel (Royal Challengers Bangalore) within the collection.
“It has been actually good to see among the younger guys come by way of. We now have given alternatives to among the boys who have not performed numerous cricket over the previous few months.
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“We now have seen among the expertise obtainable to us and we’ve got to maintain constructing on these expertise as we go ahead. It will be an extended season between now and the subsequent World Cup being life like with how a lot cricket a few of our skilled gamers will play,” Dravid signed off.
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