Team India has gone through some changes in the past month or so with Ravi Shastri, the former coach of the side replaced by legendary cricketer Anil Kumble.
Kumble, who worked as a mentor for the Royal Challenger’s Bangalore before in the IPL will now head the Indian national team led by Virat Kohli for a period of one year.
And he is now set to return to his hometown in Bangalore on Wednesday to meet his Indian side for the first time.
It is revealed that the Indian national team will be busy in a week-long camp with the new coach ahead of the West Indies tour that will start in July.
India are set to play an astonishing 17 test matches, 8 ODIs, and 2 T20s in the next one year under Anil Kumble and the former Indian spinner said that he wants his team to win anything and everything possible under his management.
It will not be easy for the team to get to winning ways straight away after a change in the coach but the fact that the team will play 13 test matches within the country should give the side some hope of reaching the coached target.
And it is now understood that the whole team will be present at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore for the camp before the West Indies tour as the turf in Chinnaswamy is being re-laid.
It was revealed that the team will undergo a customary round of fitness tests before moving to the KSCA ground and NCA’s indoor practice nets for the rest of the day.
These are interesting times for Indian cricket as the likes of Anil Kumble, one of the more aggressive Indian players of his time will surely nurture the aggression in the current squad of players as well.
The camp at the NCA will not really teach the players any techniques but will be used by the new coach to get the whole team to understand what he wants from his players.
Having been in the domestic circuit of Indian cricket for so long, Kumble knows the ins and outs of almost every player in the squad and there is no doubt that he will improve the quality in it in the long term.
But for now, the Men in Blue will have to concentrate on the job in hand at the NCA in Bangalore.