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Is Rahane's form a concern? 'Not at this point,' says batting coach


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While the overwhelming vote on the poll posted on ESPNcricinfo's Live Report on day four was in favour of Rahane being dropped, Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour disagreed, saying the Indian team management had not yet "arrived to that point" where Rahane's woeful form had become a concern.

 

"Not at this point," Rathour said at the media briefing after stumps on Sunday. "As I have said earlier, when you are playing cricket for a such a long time you will have phases where you will not get runs. That is the time as a team we need to back them and support them as much as we can. As we saw with Pujara also - him getting more opportunities and he's come back. He has played a couple of very important innings for us. So we are hoping that Ajinkya will get back into form and he will still play a major role in Indian team's batting. So I don't think we have arrived to that point that it should become a concern."

 

When asked whether such a long stretch of inconsistency coupled with low scores indicated Rahane had gaps in his technique, Rathour once again felt that was not the case or at least not the appropriate time to address the issue, if there was one.
 
"When you are playing such an important series like this one and when you are playing in the conditions which are tough for batting, we are playing against such a disciplined attack which has been bowling really well, so as a batting unit, technique is the last thing you should be thinking. This is the time you need to be really looking at what the bowlers are doing, how's it coming off the wicket and what your game plans are.
 
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This is exactly the reason why the batsmen are not improving at all. Same old mistakes getting repeated every single match. Why the eff is this guy being paid for? Not running down a team member publicly is fine but then to justify the poor form isn't on.

 

The entire set up feels like a family picnic. The general fitness standards have been terrible - look at Shami, Rohit, Shardul, Pant  or now Shaw on the bench - all look overweight or Ishant who just cannot one around in the field

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