Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Fletcher
Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcheris a Zimbabwean ex-cricketer and the former coach of the Indian cricket team. He was the coach of the England cricket team from 1999-2007, and is credited with the resurgence of the England team in Test cricket in the early years of the 2000s...
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It's a nice surprise and feeling to begin with a win. Our players shaped up well and we did a good job of adapting to the conditions.
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It is a concern, as captain he has done well for us and he is a major player. We have always had this worry that in the future he might not be fit.
risky run single
If you take a risky single and get run out, you would be frustrated.
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It would be nice to go through the series with the same 11 players. I'll be discussing the matter with the other selectors, but I'm not going to say what we'll do.
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Ashley has always offered us the balance which is required of a Test side.
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Everyone is keeping an eye on all cricket all the time. As long as we don't try to notice too much and forget about our own game.
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Ideally, with Michael probably back, it lessens the burden on Andrew and can free him up to play the exciting cricket he plays.
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On these slow wickets your technique has got to come to bear. The Indians use a lot of wrist in their technique. If you don't use your wrists you are going to struggle because of the adjustment in time of the ball reaching you - they use their wrists to create that power to beat the field.
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Sometimes these things happen. From our point of view these are huge losses as we have lost experienced players, but we just have to get on with it.
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Sometimes these things happen. We have lost experienced players before and we just have to live with it.
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They've got to be just more selective sweeping.
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It could be a risk to play him but that is a decision we have to make; sometimes an injury risk is also a risk as to whether they will perform or not. It is not easy being a selector.
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He just tweaked it and we took him off as a precautionary measure. I hope it gets better in the next couple of days. We wanted to make sure it didn't get any worse before the first Test.
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If Michael is not available, Andrew will captain the side.