India win U19 World Cup 2018: 4 factors that showed Rahul Dravid's influence on India's U-19 team 

ICC U19 Cricket World Cup - India v Papua New Guinea
ICC U19 Cricket World Cup - Rahul Dravid has been brilliant as the India U-19 coach

#4 Importance of partnerships

ICC U19 Cricket World Cup - India v Papua New Guinea

Cricket is a game of partnerships. Forming good partnerships while batting or bowling is extremely important to win any game. Stitching a solid partnership while batting can change the course of the game. It can bail the team out of tough situations. In bowling too, partnerships are important as the pressure needs to be applied from both the ends in order to pick up wickets.

Rahul Dravid, along with other greats like Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, and Sourav Ganguly, truly understood the significance of partnerships. Dravid was involved in the many of the biggest partnerships in cricket helping the team win.

The Prithvi Shaw and Manjot Kalra partnership at the top gave India a flying start in most of the games. Shubman Gill's carefully stitched partnerships with Harvik Desai, Riyan Parag, Abhishek Sharam and Anukul Roy were instrumental in team India's success. In the bowling department too fast bowlers Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Shivam Mavi formed great a partnership which wrecked the opposition batting. They were strongly backed up by Shiva Singh and Ishan Porel.

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