Indian head coach Rahul Dravid known as Check cricket to be exhausting at occasions however a format which is of nice satisfaction. Dravid’s phrases come after India’s historic 4-1 sequence win over England at house. India grew to become the primary workforce in 112 years to win a five-match sequence by 4-1 after dropping the primary recreation.
“Collection like this must be earned and that is powerful. Check cricket is difficult at occasions. It is exhausting by way of your ability. It is exhausting bodily, as you’ve got seen, it is exhausting mentally,” Dravid stated in a video posted on BCCI.television.
“But it surely’s nice satisfaction on the finish of it. The satisfaction that you just get profitable a sequence like this coming from one behind to have the ability to win 4. I feel it is simply phenomenal,” he added.
A number of children stood tall for the Indian workforce within the absence of some large names. Whereas the likes of Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami have been out of the entire sequence, the hosts missed KL Rahul for almost all a part of too. Of their absence, children like Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Akash Deep and others stood tall with star performances.
“For lots of you younger guys, particularly coming into this group, you’ll want one another to succeed. Whether or not you are a batsman or bowler or no matter you might be, your success is tied in with different folks’s success. All of you might be invested in one another’s success. And that is actually vital going ahead. It is not about your success, but it surely’s about how one can assist different folks succeed, which may even assist you succeed,” he stated.
The Indian workforce misplaced the primary Check and there have been a number of moments the place they may have gone down in additional video games. However the hosts pressured epic comebacks to clinch the sport. Dravid was happy with these fightbacks. “There have been occasions within the sequence after we have been actually challenged and pushed and we discovered a option to bounce again, which speaks to the abilities that we’ve got, the resilience that we’ve got, the character that we’ve got.
“On many events on this sequence, the video games may have gone both method. However we at all times discovered folks on this dressing room who stepped up and turned the sport our method. And that was unbelievable. So, you not solely must win the video games when it’s a must to combat again, which we did rather well.
However it’s a must to additionally win the video games whenever you’re forward and you do not let the opposition come again in any state of affairs,” he added.