Former batting coach Vikram Rathore is expecting a difficult England tour for a young Indian side, now without three stallwarts, who left the testing area in quick succession. Subsequently, it was running in a huge gap for veteran spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and then skipper Rohit Shama and Virat Kohli, new-look top and middle order. The five -match series will begin in Leeds on 20 June, with a new World Test Championship cycle.
Rathore said, “It’s going to be a tough tour. It is not going to be an easy tour as the seniors are very retired. Therefore, the young team is leaving. There can be a new captain. Therefore, all these things will increase a little pressure on all these things,” Rathore spoke after winning the Chennai Super Kings on Tuesday.
“But this is also an opportunity to showcase your talent and your ability.” Rathore, who shared a good synergy with all the top Indian batsmen during his tenure, said that fans should respect the decision taken by senior players.
“All three were unprecedented cricketers who retired. Therefore, I loved them to pursue them. But this, again, a very, is a very personal decision. I am close to them.
“So, you know, I will have, as I said, I would like to see them playing more. But again, it is a very, very personal decision, I think. And if they have taken this decision, we should respect it,” he said.
Rathore, who is RR’s batting coach, was requisite required in his praise for his discovery of the season, 14 -year -old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who played a key role in the team that signs in the team with a win against CSK.
Instead of an extraordinary approach, he took some time and waited before highlighting his shots on Tuesday.
“We have been working with her for some time, perhaps now three to four months. We have seen all these aspects, but it is great to see when she is in a game, in pressure situations, still in a big game, even today, in a big game. You are right, the ball was doing a little, when he went inside, there was hardly no ball, no more strike was found in the power play, the chariot said.
“The kind of maturity he showed, the kind of nature he showed is really good for him. And such experiences will make him a better player in the coming times.” Rathore said that despite being a strong batting unit at his disposal, he lost the winable game and also blamed poor fielding for his grief.
They managed to avoid the end of the last place and believed that the worst was over.
“I don’t think we landed very well throughout the tournament. Bowling let us go down for some time, where you scored a lot of runs, 10, 15 additional runs mostly every game.
“And then, even with batting, batting was our strength. We retained five batsmen in the squad, and that is, I believe, our strength. And, you know, we have started many times,” he said.
“We took ourselves to the positions where we should have finished the game, but unfortunately couldn’t do it. It hurts. It was a bit disappointing, but it also gives you great hope for the coming season because I think it was the worst.” Apart from Suryavanshi, Rathore also took out Dhruv Jurael for special praise.
“He (Jurael) has a great nature, he is a child. He has got a batsman along with great technology.”
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