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Long-time Australian men's assistant coach Sridharan Sriram will depart the Australia men's squad to focus on his coaching career in India, an official Cricket australia release stated on Friday. Chennai-based Sriram has been with the squad for six years as predominately a spin coach while also playing a key role in the batting, fielding and strategy for the side across multiple campaigns.
The development comes ahead of Australia's tour of India next year. Sriram, who played eight ODIs between 2000 and 2004, has been part of the Australian coaching set up since 2015. He was a part of the Australia A program on an Indian tour before being appointed as spin bowling coach under the then head coach Darren Lehmann in 2016.
(Reuters) - Sridharan Sriram will end his six-year tenure as an assistant coach with Australia to focus on his coaching role with Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore.
For Sathiyan, it was just a stepping stone in his search for a singles medal at the CWG 2022. Talking exclusively to TOI before flying out to Birmingham, Sathiyan’s answers had the lucidity of his forehand drive and the nuances carried the spin of his backhand slice. Excerpts from the interview: How did the training camp in Portugal go?Training has been excellent in Portugal. We got to train in similar conditions like Birmingham, same butterfly tables, similar weather conditions, same time zone. It helps, you know. We had serious and satisfying sessions ahead of the CWG under the guidance of our coach Raman Subramanian. We also got to play a lot of doubles. We also had top class sparring partners. Certainly we had a very good preparation coming at the right time. Do you think your preparations for CWG has been satisfactory, confidence-wise?Yes. For the Commonwealth Games, we had one national camp in Bangalore followed by the one in Portugal and then we played some tournaments. It’s been excellent, a good mixture of both training and matches. The confidence is great. Of course, having a win against Darko (world No. 6) in Zagreb before the Games has given me a lot of confidence. So it’s looking good and the confidence level is on an upward curve. I am hoping I can take it to the Games.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels India should find a way to include both Rishabh Pant and Dinesh Karthik in their playing XI for the T20 World Cup. Ponting feels that both wicketkeeper-batters are in top form, and having both players in the team might benefit Team India. While Pant has been in excellent form in international cricket, Dinesh Karthik had an impressive Indian Premier League campaign with the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Ponting said that he would take Pant and Karthik over the likes of Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan.
A video of KL Rahul facing Jhulan Goswami in the nets of the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru is going viral on social media. In the surfaced clip, Goswami can be seen bowling a fuller length delivery on the stumps to Rahul and following it with a short ball outside off stump. The right-handed batter played both the deliveries with perfection as he hit a cover drive on the first ball, while he cut the second ball from the back foot on the off side.
In the just-concluded season, which was Muzumdar's first as Mumbai coach, the domestic giants crashed out in the league stage of both the limited over tournaments - the T20 Mushtaq Ali Trophy and 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy - but bounced back to reach the Ranji Trophy final, where they lost to Madhya Pradesh by six wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. At a meeting of the MCA's Cricket Improvement Committee on Thursday, it was felt that for the sake of continuity, all the Mumbai coaches of the previous season should be retained for the coming season.
Dinesh Karthik’s career graph has been on the upswing ever since he moved to the Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier this year. A superb performance with the bat --- 330 runs from 16 outings --- for the franchise was instrumental in Karthik making a comeback into the Indian T20 side. Back with the national team after almost three years, Karthik has given a good account of himself and will be in action during the upcoming T20 series against the West Indies.