27 August,2017 09:58 AM IST | Pallekele | PTI
Indian fielding coach R Sridhar has said that the team will not be deterred by the middle-order collapse in the second ODI against Sri Lanka, and continue with experimentation in the matches to come
R Sridhar
Indian fielding coach R Sridhar has said that the team will not be deterred by the middle-order collapse in the second ODI against Sri Lanka, and continue with experimentation in the matches to come.
India lead the five-match series 2-0 with the third ODI to be played here today. "The way we look at every game is that we take something into the next game and the remaining part of the series. I think the way the last game shaped up was a wonderful learning curve for us," Sridhar said on Saturday.
MS Dhoni checks his bat with India's head coach Ravi Shastri during a practice session at Pallekele on Saturday. Pic/PTI
"Even before the series started, we all knew that there was going to be some experiments from us going ahead over the next 18 months. It has been a great learning."
India recovered from a precarious 131 for seven to record only their second win at the Pallekele International Cricket ground on Thursday.
"We wanted give the other players a hit because Rahul hadn't batted in the middle in a one-day game so we wanted to give him that opportunity. It was just an experiment. (But) It won't stop. We will try out different players in different slots to get the best exposure to get the best out of each player. That's the endeavour of the team management," he added.
