‘Why must I concentrate to you and apply the fielding drills you counsel?’ – Former India fielding trainer remembers his first dialog with Ashwin

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Former crew India fielding trainer R Sridhar has recalled a dialog that he had with veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and likewise defined the way it made him make adjustments to his taste of training.

Sridhar used to be related to the Indian cricket crew as a fielding trainer between 2014 to 2021 and right through his time period, he were given a possibility to paintings along a couple of head coaches together with Duncan Fletcher, Anil Kumble and Ravi Shastri. 

In the meantime, R Sridhar has discussed that Ashwin made it very transparent to the previous right through his early days as fielding trainer that the offie would most effective pay heed to his recommendation equipped it improves his recreation in the end. 

In the following 3 years, I’ve so much at stake: Ashwin to R Sridhar

“Being with Ashwin, I used to be struck by means of one among our early conversations in my first week with the nationwide crew. Non-confrontationally, he requested me, ‘If you do not thoughts, Sridhar sir, why must I concentrate to you and apply the fielding drills you counsel? Why must I do what you might be asking me to? From 2011 to 2014, we had Trevor Penney because the fielding trainer,” learn an excerpt from R Sridhar’s autobiography titled ‘Training Past – My Days with the Indian Cricket Group’.

“Now you might have are available in, you’ll be there for let’s assume two to a few years. You are going to say one thing; you’ll cross some way. Then a brand new fielding trainer will come. If I’m fair, within the subsequent 3 years, I’ve so much at stake. I must be satisfied that what you might be pronouncing goes to paintings for me. It must lend a hand my recreation, another way why must I concentrate to you?,” he added.

“We knew every different slightly smartly by means of then, and I right away were given the place he used to be coming from. His questions set me considering: how a lot must I trainer? What’s training actually?,” he additional added.

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