Challenge is to accept we are underachieving in foreign conditions: India assistant coach Ten Doeschate
BRISTOL: India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate feels the immediate challenge for the current T20 world champions is to shed the “underachievers” tag in foreign conditions and need to understand the process of adapting quickly to varied playing environments.
After being clean swept by Ireland in the two T20Is, India, under Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy, cut a sorry figure in neighbouring England as the hosts We have spoken so much about adaptability, it’s easy to say we need to adapt, it’s easy to say but really it’s a point now where we need to understand the process, what is needed to make those adaptations,” Ten Doeschate said at the post-match press conference.Shreyas is a fantastic leader and age wise if you are looking at two years down the line in Australia you have to make some really tough calls, there is going to be millions of opinions about it. The immediate backlash of transitioning to a new captain after losing two games against Ireland and 3-0 down in England, I think it isn’t very good. It is important to look at things a little realistically,” Ten Doeschate said.
Ten Doeschate was clear that once Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya return to the T20 fold, things will look a bit different.
For starters, the team needs to accept that they aren’t playing well.
“Psychologically and mentally the challenge for the group is to accept the fact that we are underachieving in foreign conditions and tell the players look there is a big prize two years down the line in Australia.Do we want be a team that smashes 250 in India and looks great hitting 80m six at Eden Gardens or do you want to come to places like Manchester, Southampton where things are slightly different and further down the line the MCG.
“Those were the places do we want to be the team to excel in different conditions and do we have the mentality”I think Jofra (Archer) and (Josh) Tongue bowled exceptionally well and we haven’t made that adjustment as much as we have spoken about it, we have spoken about the need to evolve and what works in India won’t necessarily work here.Ten Doeschate didn’t forget to mention that the only guy scoring runs on this tour is skipper Shreyas Iyer, who wasn’t a part of the T20 World Cup winning squad.Mentally you have to be prepared to make that shift, ideally you have to identify things that work in one area don’t necessarily work elsewhere. You need to be open to make those changes a lot quicker than we have done in the last 2-3 weeks,” Ten Doeschate said.
The coach backed T20 skipper Iyer and said he is leading from the front with the bat but needs a bit of time and support to excel as a
“The majority of those guys won a World Cup four months ago, one of the guys (Shreyas Iyer) who wasn’t there is scoring heavy runs. But it is disappointing as it has been, it’s really just to take
“We just haven’t quite managed to shift from that mindset where we read on whether we are really strong on good wickets and the little adjustments that were needed. I think all three wickets were little slower, had a little bit of bounce. You can’t play the same way, we trying to address but at the same time our performance have been really poor,” he said.