India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir said that he wants the Indian team to be able to score 400 runs in a day in test cricket. Talking to the press ahead of the 3-match series against New Zealand, Gambhir said. “We want to be that team who can score 400 runs in a day or bat 2 days to save a test match.”
“That is growth, that is adaptability and that is test cricket. It is not growth if you keep playing the same way. If we are in such a situation then we have individuals who can bat for two days. The first motive is always to win the game and the second or the last option is to play for a draw if the situation demands.”, he further added.
Want our players to play their Natural Game
Gambhir also said that he wants the team to be adaptive and play according to the situation. He said every team has their ideology but this is how we want to play our cricket.
He also said, “We want people to be aggressive and want them to go out and play their natural game. If they can score 450-500 runs in a day then why not? I’ve always maintained that T20 cricket has to be played that way and we will play that way; high risk, high reward, high risk high failure.”
“There will be days when we will get bundled out for 100 and we’ll take it up and continue to back our player to go out there and take high risk and play high-risk cricket. That’s how we want to play and that’s how we want to entertain the people. We want to take the game forward and try to get the result out of whatever situation we are in,” he concluded.
India has been playing an aggressive brand of cricket lately and we saw that in the Kanpur test against Bangladesh where India won the test match after close to three days of the test were washed out due to rain.
Gambhir said they’ll continue to play high-risk, high-reward cricket in T20Is and that reflected in India’s performance in the 3-match T20I series against Bangladesh where they almost scored 300 runs in 20 overs. The Indian team will host New Zealand for a 3-match test series starting from 16th October 2024 in Bengaluru.
