Batting coach Vikram Rathour’s tenure with Crew India ended after the T20 World Cup 2024. He together with the opposite assist employees had a giant position to play within the staff’s title win and bringing the title drought to an finish.
He was the batting coach of the Indian facet because the days of Ravi Shastri being the top coach of the Indian staff. He additionally noticed Rahul Dravid take over and do an excellent job with the staff. He shared the successes and failures and the highs and lows with the staff.
Vikram Rathour, who’s a former India participant as nicely, was capable of join extra with Rahul Dravid as a result of the 2 of them began their nationwide careers virtually collectively. Now having labored along with the Indian staff, Rathour stated that Dravid is the perfect head coach he has labored with.
Rahul Dravid Is Open To Strategies And Suggestions: Vikram Rathour
“Rahul is the perfect coach that I’ve labored with, who provides you a lot of house to work, is open to options and can present you an trustworthy suggestions,” Rathour stated.
He additional recollected his dialogue with Rahul Dravid when the duo first took cost of the Indian staff. He remembered the backroom work that went into altering the model of batting in T20I cricket. Rohit Sharma proved it within the T20 World Cup as he saved up the aggressive method that he began displaying in the course of the ODI World Cup final yr.
“One of many first discussions we had was about altering the batting template in T20 cricket. We agreed that we would have liked to usher in extra intent and aggression in our batting method,” he stated.
He additional spoke about how Axar Patel solved India’s drawback of the quantity 8 batter in T20I cricket.
“That made a large distinction and gave the batters within the prime order lot extra freedom to bat. Axar was at all times batter and all he wanted was a chance to precise himself fearlessly with an uncomplicated approach,” stated the outgoing batting coach.
Axar’s innings of 47 within the T20 World Cup remaining typifies the position he can play with the bat in T20I cricket for India. He can be utilized as a floater like how he was used on the day and it lengthened India’s batting lineup. The 73-run stand got here at a really essential time for India and that allowed them to complete with 176 within the remaining with Kohli batting by way of.
Talking about India’s method in T20I cricket, Rathour stated that the sequence in opposition to Zimbabwe was the template with which this younger staff is predicted to play sooner or later.
India gained the sequence 4-1 after shedding the primary T20I. Washington Sundar was the Participant Of The Collection for 8 wickets within the sequence. Shubman Gill completed with 170 runs within the sequence and in addition gained his first T20I sequence as captain. The largest plus from the sequence was the template with the younger Indian batters batted particularly Yashasvi Jaiswal and Abhishek Sharma.
