Admiring The Dressing Room Environment, Wriddhiman Saha Considers it to be Relaxing for The Cricketers of Indian Test Team
Kolkata: The dressing room in the current Indian Test team is a happy place to be in, said India’s Test wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha said here on Wednesday.
“The dressing room atmosphere with the Indian team is better than what it is here with Bengal and in form of club cricket, you can say,” Saha who played a vital role in India’s 3-0 whitewash of New Zealand, told the reporters.
“Like it is very serious here (with the Bengal team), it’s not like that when I am with Team India,” Saha said.
The Bengal stumper has been in a good run of form in recent times starting from the series in the Caribbean. He scored his maiden test ton in the third test at St Lucia. He followed it up with an excellent series against New Zealand at home. Asked to comment about his place in the team, a confident Saha said,
“I always had the fear of getting dropped from the team, which is not the case now. The team management along with the selectors have reposed their faith in me and that has made me confident. A lot of credit goes to our captain Virat Kohli.”
Asked how accessible is Anil Kumble as a coach and the camaraderie between him and Test captain Virat Kohli, Saha said,” He is always willing to guide you. He has a sense of humor and that reflects in the dressing room which is so relaxed.
“We have won two Test series on the trot, so everything is going well as far as Virat and Anil bhai is concerned.”
Asked about former England captain Michael Vaughan’s “park the bus” comment against India, Saha said every batsman has his own style of playing and that he likes to spend more time on the crease.
“Every batsman has his own approach. Some score few runs playing a lot of balls and some cannot survive a lot of balls.
“I like to play a lot of balls when I am batting.”
Vaughan had said that the English will have to play negative cricket if required as they don’t have a great team.
Asked to comment about the English team, Saha said, “I haven’t seen the series between Bangladesh and England. We will definitely start as favorites in our own backyard. I am confident that there will be no repeat of 2012 series.”
England will be missing frontline seamer James Anderson for the series. Anderson has a shoulder injury which has kept him out of the first part of the series in India.
“We are not concerned about Anderson or any other English bowlers. Our batting has the potential to counter their seam bowlers. The conditions too will be alien.”
On whether sledging will be a factor, as England like to do that more often, than not to instigate opposition, Saha said, “Well if you react they do it more. That’s the plan. We didn’t sledge against them. New Zealand. England and Australia like to sledge and we know that.”
Saha refused to name any specific player that India needs guard against.
The Bengal stumper was talking on the sidelines of the team meeting Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Sourav Ganguly after winning two back to back Ranji Trophy matches. The Manoj Tiwary led side Punjab and Railways to log 12 points.