India’s three-match ODI sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka, beginning on Friday, may even be the primary time of the aspect enjoying below new head coach Gautam Gambhir. Skipper Rohit Sharma stated Gambhir, who has taken over from Rahul Dravid, has a really clear thoughts in what he goals to do with the staff. “Look, Gautam Gambhir has performed a whole lot of cricket firstly after which he has been concerned with a franchise staff as effectively earlier than sitting on the prime. So sure, like I stated, it is clearly going to be completely different from the earlier teaching workers. Each human and particular person is completely different. Earlier than when Rahul Dravid joined the staff, we had Ravi Shastri.”
“So each particular person works in another way. I do know Gautam Gambhir for a very long time now. We performed slightly little bit of cricket collectively. We have now had a whole lot of chats collectively as effectively previously. Now that he’s right here, he has bought a really clear thoughts as to what he needs to do with the staff, which is superb.”
“We do not wish to plan too far forward. We’re right here to play three video games. So the purpose and thought is to take one thing again from these three video games and try to study quite a bit about what we wish to obtain in ODI cricket. So sure, it is a very thrilling time,” stated Rohit within the pre-match press convention.
Requested on what his chats with Gambhir have yielded to this point, Rohit stated, “See, what we had been speaking about was principally about cricket. Like the best way to run the staff, what are the wants, the place are the shortcomings, the place have we finished effectively. Principally, it was nearly catching up, as a result of I did not get an opportunity to fulfill him.”
“I got here right here and met him. So we had been discussing slightly bit about the best way to play with the staff, what to do, what tournaments are developing subsequent, and what we now have to do right here, the best way to play in opposition to a selected staff. Principally, we had been speaking about all this.”
Rohit additionally referred to as for folks to not be intrigued about whether or not Gambhir laughs or not throughout a match. “See Gautam Bhai has a whole lot of enjoyable within the dressing room. He laughs quite a bit. Now, his private is his private. I do not assume we must always try to get into this private area whether or not he’ll chuckle or not, or whether or not he’ll do that or not. Everybody has their very own approach. You chuckle quite a bit, possibly folks do not prefer it. So it is as much as everybody what they like and what they do not like.”
The ODIs in opposition to Sri Lanka additionally mark the beginning of India’s preparation for 2025 Champions Trophy, and requested concerning the enhancements the aspect must make of their 50-over play, Rohit remarked one can witness it in the course of the recreation on Friday.
“It isn’t a apply floor, it is nonetheless a global recreation. We’ll hold in our thoughts what we wish to obtain as a staff. However that is on no account preparation or apply or something like that. We wish to come right here and play good cricket and get one thing out of the sequence. It is so simple as that. We do not wish to take into consideration, let’s do that, let’s strive that.”
In fact, we wish to strive all the things potential. However generally you must perceive if you end up representing the nation, the standard of the cricket that we wish to play ought to stay the way in which it’s and the way we now have performed our cricket in the previous few years. So I believe that’s extra necessary, greater than desirous about it is a preparation (for Champions Trophy), so let’s exit and chill in Colombo and issues like that.
“However by way of what we wish to do, it’s not only one explicit space that we need to enhance. It’s the total recreation, as a result of in sports activities you can’t simply sit completely happy doing one thing. You need to hold transferring ahead. You wish to hold going up and up and problem your self.”
“As for us additionally right here now, we wish to problem ourselves and see what we are able to do in another way as a staff. There may be all the time one thing new to study if you play a sequence, if you play a recreation. So that is what I really feel. No matter issues we now have finished previously, it was good for that individual time.”
Rohit signed off by saying one has to provide gamers the liberty to do issues with out pondering the end result. “Time retains transferring ahead. We have now to additionally hold transferring ahead. So we’ll see. We wish to try to do various things, new issues and in another way and see the way it plans out for us. Whereas doing that, a very powerful half is to permit the gamers to try this.”
“If they’ve the liberty, then they are going to be capable to do various things at completely different instances. So it’s our job to be sure that we create that surroundings for the gamers. It isn’t about creating. We have now already created that surroundings for the gamers to come back right here and simply play freely. Not assume an excessive amount of concerning the end result, or your individual performances.”
“In case you play the way in which the staff is anticipating you to play, we’re very happy. As a result of on the finish of the day, you wish to do the job for the staff and what the staff administration is asking of you. So everybody performs that half, because the staff falls in a greater place.”
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