Suryakumar Yadav “Has Not Performed…”: Rahul Dravid Opens Up On Star’s ODI Struggles

He’s more than pleased with the takeaways from the 9 house ODIs that Indian group has performed and has already narrowed his World Cup core group to 17-18 gamers, head coach Rahul Dravid mentioned on the eve of the collection decider in opposition to Australia. India are going into the decider having already performed eight house video games – three versus Sri Lanka, three versus New Zealand and three in opposition to Australia ending on Wednesday.

Did he obtain what he had got down to in 9 house ODIs, retaining World Cup in thoughts? “We now have to a big extent. We now have acquired much more readability on the finish of those 9 video games regardless of what occurs tomorrow. We have to maintain constructing on that readability.

“For us it’s now the completely different enjoying XI mixtures and simply making certain that we play completely different mixtures at occasions simply to make sure that we’re in a position to try this within the World Cup and we aren’t shocked by something within the World Cup,” Dravid informed mediapersons on Tuesday.

The pinnacle coach rued the absence of an injured Shreyas Iyer, who had been earmarked to bat at No. 4 within the World Cup. The coach on the identical time was sympathetic in direction of Suryakumar Yadav, who hasn’t but set the ODI stage on fore not like T20 format.

“Clearly. it’s unlucky for Shreyas to get injured. He’s in all probability a kind of guys who would bat at No.4 and given a whole lot of time at that place. For those who discover we now have caught to the folks in positions. For 2 years main into this run, there’s a whole lot of T20 cricket performed and we didn’t have a whole lot of one-day cricket and if there are accidents and all that, we do have choices.”

However is Surya’s first-ball geese is not actually worrying Dravid? “Probably not involved about Surya. He acquired two superb balls. One in every of issues about Surya is that he’s studying the 50-overs recreation. The T20 is barely completely different. In T20, he has performed 10 years of IPL,” the India coach mentioned.

“He (Surya) has performed a whole lot of T20 cricket. He has performed a whole lot of excessive strain T20 video games. Despite the fact that he has performed a whole lot of T20 cricket I feel he has not performed a whole lot of one-day cricket. We have to give him a while and be affected person with it. We definitely see the upside of him doing properly.”