We review the Indian team over the last four years – the period since July 2017 when Ravi Shastri took over as head coach.
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Talking Points:
- The significance of being a very good team in a competitive era
- The bowling depth in this era world-wide – which is superior to previous teams
- Irfan Pathan in the mid-2000s – and the first glimpse of picking five bowlers
- India’s dominance over West Indies and Sri Lanka in the last decade
- The confidence to play four fast bowlers even if it meant weakening the batting
- India’s phenomenal home record over the last decade
- The perception experiment with Atherton, Hussain and Stewart
- India’s home conditions being more varied than conditions away
- The value of Bharat Arun – India’s bowling coach
- The post-facto Vijay Shankar outrage
- The diffuse excellence of this Indian team – and the clamour for an ICC Trophy
- The Dhoni problem in the 2019 World Cup
Participants:
Karthik Krishnaswamy (@the_kk)
Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Related:
- ‘I have absolutely no regrets about the book launch’: Ravi Shastri – Guardian
- ‘How do I take 20 wickets overseas?’ – Kartikeya Date – Cricketingview
- John Wright’s Indian summers – Amazon.com
- India’s home record in the 2010s rivals the great Australian era – Deepu Narayanan – Cricbuzz.com
- Not enough home advantage? No problem for India – Karthik Krishaswamy – ESPNcricinfo
- ‘I cannot tell a bowler what to do or not do. I need to help them understand their own rhythm’: Bharat Arun – Karthik Krishnaswamy – ESPNcricinfo
- ‘If I don’t take wickets even in one innings, I think my career for India is over’: Ishant Sharma – Nagraj Gollapudi – ESPNcricinfo
- ‘I was waiting for it’ – Vijay Shankar on bowling the final over against Australia – ESPNcricinfo
Lead image from here.