Dravid is pleased that players returning from injuries got 'game-time'

India coach Rahul Dravid is allayed that players such as Jasprit Bumrah KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer who are returning from injuries got some game time before the ICC Mens ODI World Cup 2023Jasprit Bumrah who didnt play international cricket for a long duration due to a back injury has bowled the full quota in the ODI series against AustraliaAlso ReadMitchell Marsh backs Maxwell to play big role in Australias World Cup campaignThe fast bowler had made a comeback during the T20 series against Ireland last month and also competed in Asia Cup in Sri LankaIyer who is expected to bat at number four struck a hundred in Indore and also contributed 48 in RajkotRahul not only batted in an impressive fashion scoring two half centuries he also kept the wickets allaying concerns around his fitnessFor all those guys gametime was important The fact that they have been able to get that is I think something that we are much better off for it Dravid said after the third ODI that India lost by 66 runsJassi has been able to play a couple of games and bowl his quota of 10 overs Siraj was suffering from a little bit of bug but he got back and was able to bowl he saidFor Ashwin it was really nice to see the way he bowled in the first two games KL as well the keeping right through the 50 overs he is coming off after almost 67 monthsShreyas has played a couple of really good knocks in the last couple of games We know we have to keep improving but also hope that we carry this momentum into the World Cup the India coach addedOffspinner R Ashwins inclusion in the squad for the Australia series had triggered speculation that he might be included in the final World Cup squad However David was noncommittalAll the teams are required to finalise their World Cup squads by ThursdayWe have to wait for an official confirmation or a decision on that The NCA is in touch with the selectors and Ajit Agarkar so I will not make any comments on that If there is any change you will get to hear about it officially as of now there are no changes Dravid said hinting that Axar Patel will be retained in the 15man squadThe india coach expects Indias full strength squad to assemble in Guwahati ahead of the first warmup match against England on September 30India had only 13 players to pick their final eleven against Australia here on Wednesday as some members Shardul Thakur Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami returned home while Ishan Kishan missed the contest due to a bug going around in the groupThe two practice or warmup games generally people play 15 versus 15 it is tough to sometimes get the intensity in those games but as we have seen in these three games in hot conditions there has been a lot of intensity as well Dravid addedThere was a bit of juggling we had to manage in this game but I am hoping that we have got about a week we have got a few days We should have the full strength squad hopefully the bug around the group has cleared out as well It will be nice if that happens the coach saidTalking about the big loss in the Rajkot ODI Dravid blamed it on giving away too many runs in the first half of the Australian inningsIn the overall scheme of things probably 350 was 30 runs too many We should have been chasing 320 if we had bowled better in the first half he saidRohit Sharma 81 and Virat Kohli 56 added 70 runs but the team lost the plot after their partnership was broken Dravid however was pleased to see the two senior batters were among runs right after a breakWe were on par when Virat and Rohit were batting We needed one of the top three to get 130 or 140 In these chases you need these kinds of scores he saidUnfortunately it did not happen but a good thing from our perspective is that both of them batted really well that is a positive They are coming off not playing cricket for a week so it was nice to get straight into it and get runs for us he saidWith Agency Inputs