MUMBAI (Reuters) – India should strike a steadiness between attempting to win each match and constructing a aspect that may be profitable in future international cricket occasions, new head coach Rahul Dravid stated on Tuesday.
Success in Worldwide Cricket Council occasions has eluded India in recent times and the crew failed to succeed in the semi-finals of the not too long ago concluded Twenty20 World Cup within the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
The match marked the tip of Ravi Shastri’s tenure as India’s head coach, whereas Virat Kohli additionally stepped down from main the aspect within the T20 format.
“It’s a must to strike that steadiness. After all we need to win each single sport we play for India, however we can’t not take into consideration the long run image as properly,” stated Dravid, whose stint begins with the house sequence in opposition to New Zealand.
“It is a mixture of each in any state of affairs. Considering long-term and fascinated with what’s sooner or later, definitely, is my job as a coach.”
Former captain Dravid, who performed 164 assessments and 344 one-dayers between 1996 and 2012 and gathered greater than 10,000 runs in each codecs, has coached India’s Beneath-19 and A groups and was additionally the top of the Nationwide Cricket Academy.
India, who play the primary of a three-match Twenty20 sequence on Wednesday in Jaipur, can mend their file in ICC occasions within the subsequent two years with the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia, the 50-over World Cup at dwelling in 2023 alongside the World Check Championship developing.
Dravid stated the crew is not going to prioritise any explicit format beneath him however emphasised he’ll intently monitor gamers’ bodily and psychological wellbeing.
“My function initially shall be to sit down again and observe after which step in as and when required. Now we have time for that, so there is not any rush,” he stated.
“So far as imaginative and prescient is anxious, for me, it is about us seeking to enhance continually each day and that we preserve getting higher as gamers and other people and we ought to be tremendous.”
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly; modifying by Shrivathsa Sridhar)
