Veteran Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik heaped praise on the head coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma’s influence on the Indian cricket team after the first T20I against the West Indies on July 29.
Karthik played under different coaches and captains during his international journey over the years, but according to him he has never seen such an enjoyable atmosphere of the Indian cricket team’s dressing room. He said that Rohit and Dravid had created an atmosphere where failure is tackled calmly.
In a video shared by the BCCI on Twitter, Dinesh Karthik told his teammate R Ashwin about change in India’s dressing room: “I think it’s a very, very different team (compared to what he had seen in his journey over the years). I must admit I’m really enjoying the set-up.”
Praising Dravid and Rohit, the veteran cricketer said: “The kind of calmness that seems to be around this set-up in terms of the coach and captain, I think a lot of credit must go to both of them (Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid) because they have set up an atmosphere where they are dealing with failure in the most rational way possible, which I think is a lot of credit to them.”
Karthik added, “They are bringing on board people that can help players try and beat themselves at their (game/skills). I think that was something that could have been missing before.”
He signed off by saying, “At times when I didn’t do well, I still felt I was treated the same way. The dressing room atmosphere was pretty calm and it was good. These are the small tick boxes that we need to have at this stage of the game.”
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(With IANS Inputs)
