Fans from all around the world have become interested in the Indian Premier League as it enters its 16th season and features all of the great cricketers. Nonetheless, the cricketers, particularly those from the Indian and Australian teams, are making an effort and controlling their workload in order to be prepared for the World Test Championship, which starts soon after the IPL ends. On June 7 at The Oval, India and Australia will square off in the crucial WTC Final in an effort to win the mace.
The team under Rohit Sharma lost the championship game to New Zealand in the previous competition, but they still made it to the summit match for the second time in a row after winning the Border Gavaskar Trophy. While selecting the team, the Indian management would need to consider a number of factors because Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, and Jasprit Bumrah will all be out owing to their individual injuries.
The players will also need to be controlled extremely carefully because the ODI World Cup is also slated to take place later this year. According to sources, Rahul Dravid, the head coach of the Indian team, and other management officials have met at the NCA in Bengaluru to go over all the issues.
NDTV Sports cited a BCCI source with knowledge of the situation as saying that Rahul Dravid would meet with the NCA team under the leadership of VVS Laxman to discuss various senior team-related issues.
“Rahul Dravid along with Batting Coach Vikram Rathour, Bowling Coach Paras Mhambrey, Fielding Coach T Dilip and the other support staff will be meeting the NCA team.”
Laxman is in charge of overseeing the rehabilitation program for the injured contracted cricketers in addition to overseeing the progress of players on both the senior Indian team as well as India A and the emerging players.
Both Rahul Dravid and Laxman, as well as their respective groups, are expected to thoroughly discuss workload management and the tactics for final preparation. It will be intriguing to observe if Nitin Patel, the head of sports science, encounters any difficult issues about the frequent disintegration of athletes who return from extensive rehab.
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