India’s head coach Rahul Dravid admits that the Indian team lacks depth in batting after the West Indies defeated India in the 5th T20I match in Florida and won the series by 3-2, The head coach said “They had Alzarri Joseph coming in at No. 11 and he can hit a mean ball”. “The batting needs to come till No. 8, possibly No. 9, somebody who can tonk the ball. Obviously, the bowlers need to start getting their batting a bit better. At least their six-hitting or four-hitting ability. We need to look at guys who can bat and bowl”
Rahul Dravid Said:
“Within ten months’ time, India will be playing the World Cup. This can’t be the template. The batting needs to come till No. 8, possibly No. 9, somebody who can tonk the ball. And obviously the bowlers, they need to start getting their batting a little bit better. At least their six-hitting or four-hitting ability. We need to look at guys who can bat and bowl. Shivam Dube comes to my mind. Venkatesh Iyer, Washington Sundar, those are the guys that come to mind and we need to groom them.”
“I think in terms of our squad here, probably it did not allow us the flexibility in some ways to be able to change the combinations a little bit. But I think going forward, we have got to look at certain areas in which we can get better. Finding depth in our batting has been an area we are trying to address. We are trying to do the best we possibly can but that is certainly an area we can look at, how we cannot weaken our bowling attack but ensure we have a certain amount of depth in batting,” Dravid admitted.
“As these games are going on, and scores are becoming bigger and bigger, if you look at West Indies, they had Alzarri Joseph coming in at No. 11 and he can hit a mean ball. So you have sides that have that depth. Obviously, we have some challenges on that front and we need to work on that. It’s certainly something that this series has shown us and we need to build on that depth,”