Need to be realistic, not easy for NZ to play series three days after WC final: Rahul Dravid | Cricket News

KOLKATA: Group India head coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday mentioned that he’s joyful together with his aspect’s efficiency within the three-match T20I collection towards New Zealand but in addition must be reasonable concerning the victory.
Rohit Sharma’s 56-run knock adopted by Axar Patel’s three-wicket haul helped India defeat New Zealand by 73 runs within the third and last T20I right here on the Eden Gardens on Sunday.

“It was a very good collection win. Everybody performed rather well proper by way of the collection. It feels good, good to start out properly. We’re additionally fairly reasonable. We now have to maintain our toes on the bottom and be a bit reasonable about this win. Not straightforward for NZ to play a World Cup last after which to show up three days later to play three video games in six days, was by no means going to be straightforward for them. Good from our perspective however now we have to study from this collection and transfer ahead,” mentioned Dravid in a post-match presentation.

“It is a lengthy journey forward over the following 10 months and we’ll have our share of ups and downs. It has been actually good to see among the younger guys come by way of. We now have given the chance to among the boys who have not performed plenty of cricket over the previous few months. We now have seen among the expertise out there to us and now we have to maintain constructing on these expertise as we go ahead,” he added.

Earlier, Rohit Sharma performed a knock of 56 runs as India posted 184/7. Within the last three overs, the Males in Blue managed so as to add 36 extra runs, taking the rating previous the 180-run mark. Deepak Chahar performed a cameo of 21 runs off simply 8 balls as India posted greater than a aggressive whole on the board.
With this win, India received the three-match collection 3-0 and now each groups will sq. off in two-match Check collection, starting Thursday in Kanpur.