He is more than pleased with the takeaways from the 9 dwelling ODIs that Indian crew has performed and has already narrowed his World Cup core crew to 17-18 gamers, head coach Rahul Dravid mentioned on the eve of the sequence decider towards Australia. India are going into the decider having already performed eight dwelling video games – three versus Sri Lanka, three versus New Zealand and three towards Australia ending on Wednesday.

Did he obtain what he had got down to in 9 dwelling ODIs, maintaining World Cup in thoughts? “We have to a large extent. We have got a lot more clarity at the end of these nine games irrespective of what happens tomorrow. We need to keep building on that clarity.

“For us it’s now the completely different enjoying XI mixtures and simply making certain that we play completely different mixtures at occasions simply to make sure that we’re in a position to do this within the World Cup and we aren’t stunned by something within the World Cup,” Dravid told mediapersons on Tuesday.

The head coach rued the absence of an injured Shreyas Iyer, who had been earmarked to bat at No. 4 in the World Cup. The coach at the same time was sympathetic towards Suryakumar Yadav, who hasn’t yet set the ODI stage on fore unlike T20 format.

“Obviously. it’s unlucky for Shreyas to get injured. He might be a kind of guys who would bat at No.4 and given a variety of time at that place. If you discover we now have caught to the individuals in positions. For two years main into this run, there’s a variety of T20 cricket performed and we didn’t have a variety of one-day cricket and if there are accidents and all that, we do have choices.”

But is Surya’s first-ball ducks isn’t really worrying Dravid? “Not actually involved about Surya. He obtained two excellent balls. One of issues about Surya is that he’s studying the 50-overs recreation. The T20 is barely completely different. In T20, he has performed 10 years of IPL,” the India coach said.

“He (Surya) has performed a variety of T20 cricket. He has performed a variety of excessive strain T20 video games. Even although he has performed a variety of T20 cricket I believe he has not performed a variety of one-day cricket. We want to present him a while and be affected person with it. We actually see the upside of him doing nicely.”