Rahul Dravid has made a winning start as the new head coach of India.
India beat New Zealand 3-0 to win the third and final T20I by 73 runs.
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If you are Rahul Dravid, you cannot ask for anything more. The new coach hits the road with a 3-0 clean sweep over New Zealand India win 3third T20I in Kolkata by a huge margin of 73 runs. He decided to bat after winning the toss and tried something different to make a difference. Their middle order collapsed when they lost their captain Rohit Sharma with a scorecard of 103/4, but came back well enough to seal the deal. When head coach Rahul Dravid was asked about India’s stellar performance at the Eden Gardens, he replied with a very calm and cool mind. “It was a really good series win. Everyone played really well through the series. Feels good, it feels good to start well. We are also quite realistic. We have to keep our feet on the ground and take this win.” Have to be a little realistic.
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He said that full credit should go to New Zealand as they arrived in India within 48 hours of playing the ICC t20 world cup The final which they lost to Australia. “It’s not going to be easy for New Zealand to play a World Cup final and then play three games in six days three days later, it’s never going to be easy for them.”
“Good from our point of view but we have to learn from this series and move on. It is a long journey over the next 10 months and we will have our share of ups and downs. It’s really nice to see some young people coming. We have given chances to some boys who haven’t played much cricket in the last few months. We’ve looked at some of the skills available to us and we need to keep building those skills as we move forward.”
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Earlier, in his bid to test the team’s character by batting first, captain Rohit Sharma smashed 56 runs in 31 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes, but despite a blistering start, Indian player Harshal Patel (18). Fell in the middle overs before. 11 balls) and Deepak Chahar (21 not out off 8 balls) used their long handles to get 50 runs in the last five overs. Ishan Kishan (29 off 21 balls), Shreyas Iyer (25 off 20 balls) and Venkatesh Iyer (20 off 15 balls) all got starts but could not convert it into big scores.
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