Ravi Shastri Backs Rahul Dravid To “Raise The Bar”

Outgoing head coach Ravi Shastri feels his successor Rahul Dravid has inherited a “nice group” and backed him to boost the bar along with his wealth of expertise as a participant and coach. The T20 World Cup sport towards Namibia was Shastri’s final day within the workplace as the pinnacle coach. “There’s one factor lacking, that’s (profitable the) ICC match. They may get an opportunity and Rahul Dravid has come as a coach, I want him all of the luck. He is a superb participant, bought the stature, he has finished the yards as a coach, to additional take this group over the following few years and lift the bar,” Shastri mentioned on the digital post-match media interplay on Monday.

Shastri achieved again to again Check sequence wins in Australia in his tenure however an ICC trophy eluded him and skipper Virat Kohli. Shastri additionally heaped reward on outgoing bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar, whose tenures too ended with the group’s World Cup marketing campaign.

“See, I name him (Arun) the guru of that (bowling) division… him and Sridhar have finished an excellent job, however I am going to come first to Bharat Arun. He has been within the teaching house for nearly 20 years now, if no more.

“And never solely that he has coached a number of coaches, he has performed a number of programs, he has licensed a number of coaches after which come to do that job and that is the prime cause I picked them…

“…as a result of I wished to choose individuals from my steady, which is the NCA and I occur to be the chairman there for someday when the system was put in place. That’s the time guys like Sridhar and Arun got here into the fold, with Dav Whatmore there,” Shastri mentioned.

Shastri mentioned Arun’s greatest plus level was his communication. “He is not going to change anybody’s approach for the sake of it, until he has the answer or until he explains to the man (participant) why he has to do it, for the sake of doing it, he will not.

“He instilled professionalism within the unit by his communication expertise, to allow them to know that that is what we count on from a bowling group not a bowling particular person, that’s not simple, that’s one thing particular that he did, he ensured that occurred.

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Below Sridhar’s steering, Shastri felt the group turned among the best fielding models on the planet. “After which I am going to go to Sridhar, who I believe is without doubt one of the greatest coaches on the planet (and) he’s excellent. All I needed to inform him was I need this to be among the best Indian fielding sides ever, that was my diktat to him and mentioned in each match, I need to see the bar raised….

“….there was no messing round, it needed to be finished and equally with Arun so far as professionalism got here to bowling as a unit, it took time, however it occurred and therefore the outcomes,” added Shastri.