For the second Test, India are unlikely to tinker with their winning combination of first Test against West Indies, with assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate verifying that the think-tank desires to give young Nitish Kumar Reddy an extended run as part of a long-term plan to develop a seam-bowling all-rounder. From Friday, the match begins in New Delhi. “I’d say we are unlikely to change the combination,” Ten Doeschate told on Wednesday. “One of the objectives, one of the sort of medium-term objectives, is to develop a seam bowling all-rounder for India.” The long-term centre of attention explains why the team management is keen to continue with Reddy in spite of his limited role in the first Test.
The coaching staff views the series as a platform to bring up his all-round potential rather than judge him by one trip.
Ten Doeschate described “It’s a very important when we go away on tours that we have that position coming,”
“We didn’t get a very good look at Nitish last week, so I think It’s actually a very good opportunity to give Nitish another go and not alter the balance of the team. we think he is a fantastic seam bowling all-rounder.” The former captain of Netherlands admitted that the in India the largest challenge for seam-bowling all-rounders has often been physical durability rather than skills.
Ten Doeschate told “A bowler with all seam… I think the biggest sort of limitation to what he’s seen could be his body. He is not the first all-rounder that we have seen in this country,”
“He’s perfect on his heart.He is the same sort of character of player where we don’t doubt their skills at all, but for their bodies to hold up to play Test cricket is a different matter.”
Assistant coach lauded batting exploits of Nitish in Australia, calling him “a quality all-rounder” with the temperament to succeed at the biggest level. He has a Test hundred at the MCG.
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He told ” Nitish, I think he is shown everyone in Australia just how good he is as a batter,”
“The challenge for him is going to be to make sure that he gets game time in between the away series.”
Ten Doeschate acknowledged that this depth makes it harder for Nitish to break into the XI regularly but added that such contesting only increases the overall standard.
“We are all disappointed that they are not playing 6 or 7,” he added with a smile, “but that means that their cricket’s in a good space, so we will have to let that continue.”
