BCCI feels that players should concentrate on the cricket, It was assumed to be India will win Tests overseas. I do not see why India cannot play like that as it happens in Australia where we are aggressive in all formats of the game.
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India play three Tests in Sri Lanka and the tour lasts till 1 September. Shastri is now away in England as a TV analyst with Sky Sports for the ongoing Ashes and will join the team on August 12, when the first Test begins. Now in Chennai as the assistant coach of Australia A, Law also spoke on a variety of subjects.
“His batting is technically very clean but he never played the sweep shot”, Rajkumar Sharma told TOI, “But now he is making a conscious effort to sweep and he feels he needs to master that as it will help him dominate the spinners even better”.
“I think being around him is always a good feeling”. He is a very nice and genuine person. Really nice to have a guy who has so much energy and puts in 100 percent every time he steps on the field, every ball that he plays, every ball that he fields, he is always there for the team.
Law said, “Sri Lanka is going through a bit of rebuilding as well”.
“He (Murali Vijay) has always been a very very solid opener for India. Has a lot of patience, a very solid character and is very sure of himself and of his game”.
One of the most prolific Australian batsmen with more than 27,000 runs including 79 hundreds in first-class cricket, Stuart Law was also cut out for coaching as he proved his mettle within two years of his retirement. India has class batsmen with skills, good bowlers and world’s best spinners and what I have seen in the first game, India is an improve side in fielding. The 46-year-old, who had stints with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh teams, said he would love to work with Team India, who are in the hunt for a head coach following the departure of Duncan Fletcher.
“We have lot of experience with the spin department. The crowd in sub-continent comes in great numbers to watch one-dayers and T20 matches more than the Test matches because it is exciting cricket”. So it’s great to have his vision, his ideas and his confidence back into the team and Amit Mishra as well. “He had informed the BCCI about it and as we finalised the BCCI itinerary a bit late, he had already taken permission to skip the early part”, an official told the newspaper.
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Kohli said even the pacers will be required to do well in the island nation. “I think with the ball reversing later on, the fast bowlers have been the ones who have come in and given those crucial breakthroughs for the Test match to be won”, he said.
