Indian might be in a good space at the ongoing first Test vs Bangladesh but India head coach has raised concerns about the challenges that his team could face to secure a sport in the World Test Championship final.
As the race for making the cut for the WTC final gets more challenging, India have to win all six of their remaining matches — two against Bangladesh, one of them currently underway in Chattogram and four against Australia at home in February-March next year — to enter the final of the World Test championship.
“It’s one step at a time. I don’t think we can start looking at the sixth one when we start here. We’ve got to win this one first. We’ve got to play our best cricket to give ourselves a chance to win this first one and then go to Dhaka to replicate that and take it as we go.”
“We know we’ve got a challenge on our hand. We know we’ve got to win majority of our games in the World Test Championship, but we are not going to get there if we don’t take the first steps well. So, we’ve got to focus on this one and then see how the cards fall and how it goes and see what we’ve got to do in the series against Australia,” said Dravid in a video posted on bcci.tv.
Teams going for win in WTC : Dravid
Dravid also said that teams are now getting more aggressive and are pushing for results since the time Tests have come under the World Championship umbrella.
“Teams have already been aggressive over the last bit (of time). Teams are playing for results a lot more now especially with the WTC points at stake. I still think adaptability is going to be very important in Test cricket.”
“That ability to play aggressively when you need to…or you can play aggressively with the kind of squad you have or the kind of position you find yourself in the game and then the opportunity to be able to play a difficult period or a difficult day of Test cricket either with the bat or with the ball and knuckle down and play some tough, hard cricket as well.”
“The teams that have that adaptability or that ability to be able to switch so to speak even in between a Test match are the ones that are going to be very successful.”
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