WTC Final 2023: In a recent video uploaded by the BCCI, Indian team coaches Paras Mhambrey, T Dilip, and Vikram Rathour talked about the building workload for bowlers after they returned from a rigorous two months of playing in the IPL. The World Test Championship final against Australia starts on June 7 at The Oval, with Mohammad Shami and Ravindra Jadeja coming to England just a week before the final. Team India will have a few practice sessions at the Arundel Castle Cricket Club in Sussex ahead of the final.
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Paras Mhambrey on their preparations
“The preparation has been good so far. The initial bit was to ease into the practice session but the last two sessions have been pretty happy — I think we pushed them a little bit. Just adding a little bit of workload for the bowlers, just kind of preparing them for the Test match,” said India’s bowling coach Paras Mhambrey in a video released by the BCCI.
“(We are) happy with the conditions, I think it is a lovely ground, (it is) kind of what you can expect. The weather is holding up, it has been sunny, a little windy, a little chill but something that we have to get used to (when) playing in England,” he said.
Mhambrey said while the bowlers will get some rest in days leading up to the WTC final, the group is determined to extract the maximum benefits from the training sessions.
“We have two more sessions now, we want to build up especially with the bowlers in a couple of sessions. One day before the Test match, all of us have an easier option, the bowlers’ option is they take an off and maybe one or two sessions before that.“If you look at it, we have three quality sessions in which we can push them in and try to get the best out of every session we have,” he said.
Fielding and adapting to Tests main focus
India’s fielding coach T Dilip said the focus will be on close-in catching since the running part of the fitness drill was covered in the IPL.
“The players have been coming from an IPL so a key thing for us to take care of was the workload, how much they have run, how much they have taken care.
“What we understood and got out of that is things (like) ground fielding have been covered in the IPL, so the focus here was more on the volume of catching, especially when you are talking about close-in catching, the slip catching and the flat catches. These are the catches that we tend to increase the volume (of),” he said.
India batting coach Vikram Rathour said the focus will also be on adapting to the longest format.
“They have all played a lot of cricket. Whatever time we are getting, it is about adapting to a different format, getting used to playing with the red ball and getting a few sessions in and getting used to the format,” he said
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