‘True test of strengths and weaknesses’: Dravid
Updated On: 24 January, 2024 06:02 AM IST | Hyderabad | R Kaushik
India head coach Rahul Dravid says a five-match series is a great contest between two teams, giving everyone ample opportunity to perform as there is enough time to come back
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India’s spin duo of Ravindra Jadeja and R Ashwin (right) during a practice session in Hyderabad yesterday. Pic/PTI
It’s been seven years since India last played a five-Test series at home. That was in 2016-17, coincidentally also against England, against whom Rohit Sharma’s men will square off in the first of five games from Thursday at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here.
A five-Test series can be a double-edged sword. It can help players rediscover form after an iffy start, but it can also ruthlessly expose technical limitations, as happened with Virat Kohli on the tour of England in 2014 when he only managed 134 runs from 10 innings. Five-Test series also place massive demands on physical and mental reserves in this day of so much white-ball cricket, something that Rahul Dravid alluded to when it was pointed out to him that this year alone, India will be involved in two such showdowns, including the one in the winter in Australia.
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