After India’s terrific win over England in Dharamsala, head coach Rahul Dravid addressed the crew within the dressing room and lauded the gamers for showcasing an important instance of teamwork. After taking place 1-0 within the collection, Rohit Sharma & Co. bounced again to win 4 consecutive matches to outsmart the guests. While India prolonged their unbeaten streak in Tests at residence, it was England’s first-ever collection defeat since Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum took over because the captain and coach of the Test crew.

Addressing the crew within the dressing room, Dravid underlined the significance of staying collectively and functioning as a unit to prevail within the robust world of Test cricket.

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“Series like this need to be earned and that is robust. Test cricket is tough at occasions. It’s exhausting when it comes to your ability. It’s exhausting bodily, as you’ve seen, it’s exhausting mentally. But it’s nice satisfaction on the finish of it. The satisfaction that you just get successful a collection like this coming from one behind to have the ability to win 4. I believe it’s simply phenomenal,” Dravid said.

India missed the services of key players in Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami while the likes of KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer were ruled out of injuries. However, the hosts found heroes in some young names in the series. The home side handed debuts to five players — Rajat Paitidar, Dhruv Jurel, Devdutt Padikkal, Sarfaraz Khan and Akash Deep — in the marquee series.

The Indian coach was a chuffed man after some of those young names emerged with flying colours from the series.

“For a lot of you young guys, especially coming into this group, you are going to need each other to succeed. Whether you’re a batsman or bowler or whatever you are, your success is tied in with other people’s success.

“All of you are invested in each other’s success. And that’s really important going forward. It’s not about your success, but it’s about how you can help other people succeed, which will also help you succeed,” he mentioned.

The 51-year-old was delighted to see the gamers discovering methods to show the tide each time they have been put below stress.

“There have been occasions within the collection that we have been actually challenged and pushed and we discovered a strategy to bounce again, which speaks to the talents that we’ve, the resilience that we’ve, the character that we’ve. On many events on this collection the video games might have gone both means. But we all the time discovered individuals on this dressing room who stepped up and turned the sport our means. And that was improbable,” the head coach added.

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Dravid also said the team also did well to maximise advantageous positions.

“So, you not only need to win the games when you have to fight back, which we did really well. But you have to also win the games when you’re ahead and you don’t let the opposition come back in any situation,” he mentioned.

“The former India captain praised the crew for rising winners from a protracted, gruelling collection in opposition to a high quality opposition. We talked about this initially of the collection as effectively. Irrespective of whether or not we win or lose that is going to show us rather a lot — a 5 Test match collection. You’re going to undergo lots of ups and downs.”