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#2 R Sridhar not happy with current fielding standards

R Sridhar

Indian fielding coach R Sridhar expressed his disappointment over the continuous deterioration in the fielding standards since the CWC 2019 but sounded hopeful of better effort from the second ODI in Auckland tomorrow.

Sridhar stated that the Indian team were nowhere close to the fielding standards set by them in the CWC 2019 and have been performing poorly since the West Indies series at home last year.

"Overthrows, I mean, you are talking about" Manish (Pandey) -- he took a chance. He had to do it, and we needed a wicket at that time."

"You can bargain four runs for a wicket and it was the best player who was there at that time. These things happen, you can’t look too deep into that...That catch should have been taken. Probably it was after his first over, maybe he was thinking about his previous over, could be anything. It could not be a technical aspect at all."

"We keep reminding the players about attention to basic detail...In a T20 game, each fielder has to be his own captain. He need not wait for the captain to move him or the bowler to move him in a certain direction or to a certain position... We try and tell them to think ahead of the game, you as a fielder captain yourself, see which way the breeze is, which way the batsman’s tendencies to hit are, what’s the bowler’s plan and position accordingly.”

"The West Indies series at home was somewhere we really dropped. We were average, to say the least. But definitely we have not lived to the standards as we did in the world Cup or even in the build-up to the World Cup in the last couple years."

Full article: New Zealand vs India 2020: Coach R Sridhar unhappy with current fielding standards; wants to emulate CWC 2019 standards