Indian coach Rahul Dravid is aware of the challenge the Indian team is going to face against the roaring McCullum and Ben Stokes’s duo and Indian coach Dravid is prepared for the tough fight as he believes team India has a positive brand of cricket to show and will continue to be the dominating performer in all the formats.
“To be honest, we’ve been a pretty positive side as well,” Dravid said on Wednesday (June 29) in the lead up to India’s fifth Test against England. “We were second in the World Championship cycle last year. This year, we find ourselves third in the table just underneath the top two. So we’ve been pretty successful. I mean we were pretty successful in getting 20 wickets and winning Test matches. That for me is positive cricket as well.
“Last week, we prepared as well as we could in Leicester. We had a really good four-day game, we were able to mix and match and give a lot of our guys good opportunities against our own bowlers… on a slightly challenging wicket, so we feel we’ve done the best we can in the schedule that we’ve had, in order to prepare our boys to the best of our ability. Some of the boys have missed out playing in the T20I series against South Africa and also in Ireland as well, so we tried to prioritize this Test match and try and get the preparation as best as we possibly can, to be able to compete and play our brand of cricket – which I think is a very positive brand of cricket, you know, against any opposition and I guess against anything that they throw at us.”
