South Africa tour will help youngsters – Fletcher - Cricket News Update
Indian cricket team has reached South Africa, where they will play a one-off T2O international match against the hosts on March 30, at Johannesburg.
The 15-man squad led by the skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 as well as to pay tribute to the legendary South African All-rounder, Jacque
Kallis, for his remarkable contribution to the national side.
Indian coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Duncan-Andrew-Gwynne-Fletcher-c54742, believes that this tour will help the young players to get experience in the different conditions of the host country. He further told that the board is interested in developing a young One Day and Twenty20 squad and so this
match will surely define the future of a young Indian team.
"These blokes have played well on the subcontinent and any game they play out of it must be very good from an experience point of view,” The 63-year-old Zimbabwean coach.
Dhoni and company are constantly playing cricket over the past few months as they were at Australia and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 before travelling to South Africa. Due to excessive cricket, some of the Indian players got injured and hence, have to drop from the team on
different occasions.
When asked about the long travel for just one match, given that the seven-week long tournament IPL is also starting on April 4, Dhoni said that the team is very excited to participate in this honourary match and there are no complains of fatigues at all.
“In South Africa the sports are managed really well. When a team comes everything is in place and in order,” said the 30-year-old skipper.
Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 followed by their below-standard performances in CB series as well
as in 2012 Asia Cup.
Fletcher said that though they have played some good cricket against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, in order to be competitive enough to beat the big teams, the board and managements is working hard in formulating different strategies to bring young and promising talent to
the front.
"There are a lot of young players we are trying to groom, and hopefully it will pay dividends in the future. From our point of view there is a lot of talent around, we need to give them the exposure they require." said
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