IND vs SA: KL Rahul “Doing well” as India captain, says Rahul Dravid after ODI series loss to South Africa

India head coach Rahul Dravid on Sunday admitted that his team does not play “smart cricket at key moments” but has backed the accused KL Rahul to get better as a leader in the days to come. India lost both the Test and ODI series In what turned out to be a disastrous tour of South Africa despite a bright start in the Opening Test at Centurion, the team took an all-out win. “He did a great job. It’s not easy to end the results wrong,” said Dravid when asked how he found Rahul as a leader, after losing all four matches he’s played in. was the captain on the tour. “He’s just started and I think he’s done very well.

Dravid feels that “skill execution” is missing in all three ODIs that India has lost.

According to Dravid, the series is a “good work” but there is still a lot of time before the 2023 ODI World Cup, and India will get better in the near future.

“It was an eye-opener but we haven’t played much ODI cricket. The last time we played against England was in March (after that second series match against Lanka under Dravid’s coaching). We’ll be playing a lot of whiteball cricket before next year’s World Cup.” Dravid accepted that India’s ODI team for the series didn’t have the kind of balance needed although he agreed that one could try and start looking at samples.

“The players at 6, 7 and 8 are not available to choose from and when they come back the team will have a slightly different look,” he said.

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He agreed that by the 30th minute in both chases, they were in the game before several smashers played poor shots.

“We didn’t play smart cricket at the key moments,” he added.