Mhambrey happy with bowlers’ effort
The Hindu
Picking 19 wickets on that surface wasn’t easy, says the bowling coach
New Zealand justified its status of World Test champion by achieving what very few travelling teams have — to bat out the last day of a Test in India. Still, Paras Mhambrey, India’s newly appointed bowling coach, was extremely happy with his bowlers’ effort in the series-opener at Kanpur.
“I think we are happy, honestly. If you look at the outcome of the game — yes, we wanted to win the Test match, we were so close. But looking at the wicket, it was not that kind of a surface,” Mhambrey said on Wednesday, two days ahead of the series-decider scheduled to begin at the Wankhede Stadium.
“We knew in the (last day) morning that this is not the kind of surface where you turn up and run through a side. We knew it was going to be hard work. Especially there was no bounce, the ball was keeping low. Unfortunately, a couple of edges didn’t carry. Had that happened, it would have been a different result. A lot of positive we can take, especially in the effort that we put in. Honestly, I feel we made a game out of it. Picking 19 wickets on that surface wasn’t easy. But we really took it to the end.”