da betway： Indian cricket team manager Chetan Chauhan feels the Zimbabwe tour hadbeen a very good learning experience for some of the young playersdespite the team’s failure to win either the Test series or thetriangular one-day tournament
da roleta： 09-Jul-2001Indian cricket team manager Chetan Chauhan feels the Zimbabwe tour hadbeen a very good learning experience for some of the young playersdespite the team’s failure to win either the Test series or thetriangular one-day tournament.India had to be content with a 1-1 draw in the two-Test series withZimbabwe and lost to West Indies in the final of the triangular oneday tournament after winning all their league matches quitecomprehensively. However, Chauhan said it was not a disappointing tourand the team was looking at the positive aspects of it."We drew the Test series one all and then in the one dayers, we wonthe league matches quite comfortably, but went down fighting to theWest Indians in the final,” Chauhan told reporters after the team’sarrival here from Zimbabwe early on Monday morning.”I personally feel this tour has done lot of good for youngsters likeopening batsmen Shiv Sundar Das, who won the man of the series in theTest matches, medium pacers Ashish Nehra, Harvinder Singh, DebashishMohanty, all-rounder Reetinder Singh Sodhi and wicketkeeper SamirDighe,” Chauhan said.”Unfortunately, we had one bad day and the West Indians grabbed theopportunity fully and I would like to give credit to the West Indianbatsmen for the way they played and also to the Indians for the waythey fought till the end, losing by just 16 runs,” he said.Asked if the Indians were over-confident after recording easy wins inthe league matches, Chauhan said, “Not at all. In fact, we discussedat length the strategy for the final. But I can only say that the WestIndies batsmen applied themselves very well and did not allow us tomake early breakthroughs like we did in the league stages. They playedgood cricket on that particular day and scored 291 which I thought wasa bit too much in the end for us though our players fought well tillthe end,” he said.Chauhan admitted that reports of drug abuse had upset the players butsaid it did not affect their performance.”Some players whose name figured in the article were very upset.However, I spoke to them and they seemed to be alright. It is a commonpractice for the players to take energisers in public view and theseenergisers are supplied by the host nations,” he added.
