There is no denying the fact that India’s fielding standards have gone down in the past couple of years. From dropping regulation catches to letting easy boundaries slip away, the Indian fielders have not been up to the mark. Such errors on the field have also played a big role in India’s defeats. former India fielding coach R Sridhar came up with a blunt assessment While talking about the issue.
He said that the newbies in the team are arriving “undercooked” in terms of their fielding abilities.
“I think fielding has now definitely taken a backseat in terms of application and in terms of building a certain culture. As we can see, there is a clear culture with the batting, the way the Indian team is batting. Similarly, there’s a clear culture in the way the Indian team is using fast bowlers, especially in the ODIs, where Shubman Gill likes to hit the deck. “But whereas in fielding, that seems to be absent, and what is really worrying is the fact that the new kids who are coming into the squad are undercooked in their fielding ability.
Because they seem to have been brought up on only one skill, that is batting,” Sridhar said during an interaction facilitated by Sony Sports Network on Monday, some are fast bowlers, some are batters, but whoever is coming in, they don’t seem to be the kind of fielder a Kohli is or even a Surya or Shreyas is, the generation of that block, I’m saying,.
