broadly credited for creating India's expertise pool at the beneath-19 and A stage, former captain and NCA Director Rahul Dravid says all through his stint as train with these teams, he made positive that each cricketer who toured got a sport unlike his playing days.
Dravid may be head instruct of a Shikhar Dhawan-led Indian crew that will tour Sri Lanka for a white-ball series next month. He doesn't tour with the A and U-19 squads any more but it changed into he who made certain all of the squad members performed on tours.
"I inform them prematurely, in case you come on an A excursion with me, you'll now not depart here with out gambling a game. i've had that personal enjoy myself as a kid: taking place an A tour and no longer getting an possibility to play is horrible," Dravid ESPNcricinfo's 'The Cricket monthly'.
"you've got done nicely, you scored 700-800 runs, you move, and also you don't get a hazard to show what you are precise at. And then you definately're lower back to square one from the selectors' point of view, because the subsequent season you have to score those 800 runs again.
"It isn't smooth to try this, so there's no guarantee you will get a danger once more. so that you inform human beings prematurely: this is the fine 15 and we're gambling them. This isn't always approximately the meant high-quality XI. At U-19, we make five-six modifications among games if we are able to," he said.
Indian cricketers at the moment are a few of the fittest within the world however there has been a time once they did now not have the specified understanding on fitness and envied the more athletic Australians and South Africans, Dravid stated.
Now in charge of the country wide Cricket Academy, Dravid has performed a key role in producing the next era of cricketers and a reserve pool that's the envy of India's combatants.
In his playing days, Dravid stated the awareness simply wasn't there.
"playing on the seaside and playing on the road does not make you a cricketer. It makes you a person who loves the game. that is what we had. We had a whole lot of folks who loved the sport," Dravid said.
"unless you provide that guy a proper matting wicket or a turf wicket, unless you deliver him a few 1/2-first rate coaching, a few 1/2-decent health assistance wherein changed into all this inside the 1990s and the 2000s? there has been no access to it. We have been starved of knowledge.
"Even in phrases of health, we used to look at the Australians and South Africans and we used to look at their fitness trainers, and what did we get? 'do not do an excessive amount of gymnasium, your frame turns into stiff. Bowl, bowl and bowl. Run rounds and laps'," he recalled.
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