da aviator aposta： Fielding coach R Sridhar on the tactical and psychological tweaks that helped the team turn things around
da leao： ESPNcricinfo staff21-Jan-2021Ashwin: Did you see that coming?Sridhar: We were sitting in the coaches’ box. The three of us [Arun, Sridhar and Rathour] were sitting with Hari, the analyst. Ravi came in and thundered ‘I have told Jinks to bring Ash on early. He has the edge over Smith. The ball will do something. I’m waiting. I want to see him bowl inside the 40th minute’. And he was clapping furiously. And then when you [Ashwin] got the ball in your hand, the bowling coach was super excited. He was like, ‘Something is going to happen now’. Ashwin’s first ball itself fizzed and bounced; my heart was beating fast. My first thought was ‘Oh dear, how is Rishabh Pant going to keep to Ashwin on this wicket’. He was under pressure, was playing his first game. So that was running on my mind. I called Saha and told him my thoughts immediately.Sridhar: Two years back, Siraj called and joked. ‘Sir, when are you calling me [to the Indian team]?’ Every time he’d pick wickets for India A, he’ll call and ask ‘Sir, when will you call me?’ I jokingly thought to myself. ‘He’s asking me as if this is my father’s house to invite whoever I please.’ But the resilience he showed after his father’s death, hats off.