Watch: India react like champions, says Rahul Dravid in dressing room speech Cricket News – Times of India

Colombo: Team India responded like a champion, the coach said like Rahul Dravid In a motivational dressing room speech after his youth team registered a series-winning victory in the second ODI against Sri Lanka here.
Chasing 276 for victory on Tuesday, India were reduced to 193 for seven in the 36th over. Deepak Chahri (69) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (19) made an unbroken partnership of 84 runs to take the visiting team home with three wickets and five balls to spare.
“Obviously we finished on the right side of the result, which is incredible and spectacular, but even though we didn’t end up on the right side of the result, this whole fight was absolutely spectacular, so well done to all in you.” From,” Dravid said in a video posted BCCITV

“We said they were going to respond, we knew we had to respect the opposition. The opposition was going to respond, they are also an international team. They responded, and we responded like a champion team.
“With our backs to the wall, we found a way to break them down. So really well done to you all. Great job.”
Bhubaneswar (3/54) and Yuzvendra Chahal (3/50) took three wickets each, while Chahar restricted Sri Lanka to 275 for nine, mainly scoring half-centuries from openers Avishka Fernando (50) and Charith Aslanka (65).

going hard with India Suryakumar Yadav Chasing with 53 off 44 balls, but once it was gone, the visitors slipped to 193 for seven.
However, Chahar scored his maiden ODI fifty and took the team home in Bhuvneshwar’s company.
Dravid, named India’s head coach for the limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka, said, “This is not the right time to talk about individuals, there were definitely some great individual performances, especially towards the end.”
“We talked about this, we acknowledge and recognize the contribution of each and every player in this game. If you look at the whole game, the team had some really good performances.

“Such a great performance in our bowling, batting, even in the beginning, great team performance from all of you.”
The video also shows Suryakumar, Bhuvneshwar and Chahar narrating their experience about the match.
Suryakumar said, “I have no words, I think this is one of the best games I have been a part of, I have seen it live… It is an incredible win.”
“Bhuvi, our old man and DC, we are talking about his batting, and today he has proved himself, it was a complete team effort. It was something special from Deepak Chahar.”
The third final ODI will be on Friday.

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