South Africa vs India: The sequence has been an eye-opener for us, says Rahul Dravid

South Africa vs India: Visitors’ head coach Rahul Dravid mentioned that the shortage of key gamers could have disturbed the steadiness of the batting order however the sequence has been a superb eye opener for them. South Africa received the third ODI by 4 runs to finish the cleansweep. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSIndia misplaced the third ODI by 4 runsIndia have been cleanswept 3-0 within the ODI sequenceDravid mentioned that India can have time to organize for subsequent yr’s World CupIndia’s sequence defeat to South Africa was a “good eye-opener” for the staff however they issues with steadiness may very well be corrected when among the gamers who have been unavailable for choice return, head coach Rahul Dravid has mentioned. India have been cleanswept 0-3 by South Africa in a sequence win which they appeared in with an opportunity to win solely within the final match on Sunday.

Dravid mentioned that India have not been performed an excessive amount of ODI cricket for the reason that final World Cup in 2019 and have a whole lot of probabilities to enhance earlier than the 2023 event.”This series certainly has been a good eye-opener for us. We have not played a lot of one day cricket. It is my first stint with the one-day side but even the team itself hasn’t played a lot of cricket in this format since the last World Cup,” Dravid advised reporters.”The last one they played was against England in March last year. We have got a fair bit of time before the World Cup next year and there is going to be a lot of cricket from now till then in the white-ball format. So it is an opportunity for us to reflect and learn, look to keep improving. We will improve, there is no doubt about it,” mentioned Dravid.South Africa’s superiority with the bat within the center overs was a theme of the sequence and Dravid mentioned that India may have achieved higher in that interval of the matches.”We certainly could do better with batting in the middle overs. We understand the template and a large part of it is dependent on the balance of the side. If we have to be honest, some of the guys who give that balance and all-round options in the lower middle order were not available. Hopefully when they come back it gives us some depth which allows us to play in a certain style.”Having mentioned that, even South Africa who batted first on two occassions scored solely round 290 runs as nicely. In the thirtieth over of each these video games I used to be pondering we should always have chased them down. We did not as a result of we performed some poor photographs and did not play sensible cricket in important conditions. But having mentioned that, there’s a lot to study from this sequence, lot to mirror on,” mentioned Dravid.Click right here for IndiaAt this time.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.