All the players are looking in good touch: Sanjay Bangar

Jul 20, 2016 at 10:49 AM

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All the players are looking in good touch: Sanjay Bangar

Sanjay Bangar, India’s batting coach, said that the Indian team has got sufficient preparation ahead of the first Test. Interacting with the media ahead of the first Test, which starts on July 21, the former cricketer spoke on different matters ranging from India’s preparation, their batsmen’s weakness, role of the new coaching staff and much more.

Excerpts :

On the team’s preparation for the upcoming series:

Very happy (with the preparations). It is the first time in a while that we’ve got such a long period of preparation for a Test series, so we have tried and made the best use of it.

It started in Bangalore. We had 6-7 days there and almost two weeks here in the West Indies. Don’t remember when we got so much time in the last 2-3 years to prepare for a Test series. So overall, good preparation and we have prepared for whatever different conditions we could encounter in the match situations… and what should be our response. We have discussed our plans and execution, so we have tried to work out all angles possible. The time we have had has been very useful in terms of team bonding as well as preparation. All the players are looking in good touch.

On the role of coaching staff:

All our players have a lot of confidence and self-belief. And our work is to prepare them and keep them in a good mindset. The kind of intensity they bring to preparation and training overall, they have a very professional approach. So our role is very little and it is just to prepare them nicely and they have prepared very nicely.

On whether they are expecting similar kinds of wickets that they got in St Kitts during the warm up games:

Yeah more or less. But we won’t be surprised if there is some grass cover on the wicket which we see now. How much of it remains on the surface remains to be seen and we are expecting a bit of grass cover and we also prepared keeping in mind that some of the wickets also slow down as the game progresses. So we have been aware of that and have prepared accordingly.

On Indian batsmen’s inability to deal with the spinners efficiently:

No generally, if a good ball gets you out, whether it is from a spinner or a seamer, we need to accept that rather than say that our batsmen got out to spinners or seamers. Quality of the ball, whether it was a wicket taking delivery, that is something we have discussed. I dont find that there is an inherent weakness against either spin or seamers for any particular batsmen. It is more to do with the kind of that sort of delivery.

On  practicing match type situations in the nets:

That is something done during centre wicket practices or match simulations, both of which we have done in Bangalore as well as here in practice matches. We said that if you bat two sessions you can return to the meant pavilion or if it was a two-day game, if you are happy with the way you have coped and happy with yourself mentally, then the batsmen were free to come back. And in the nets we generally work a lot on communication and emphasis on strike rotation that is why batting in pairs and making sure we are changing every four or five balls, rotating the strike, so those are the things we work on during the practice sessions.

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