Speaking at the pre-departure press conference ahead of the Australian tour, Shastri said, \u201cWe will try to play (those) 15, who will go to the World Cup. Chopping and changing is over now. The grace period is over now.\u201d
\n\u201cNow it is the time to really get focussed and play as a unit and then hopefully not have too many injuries so that we don\u2019t have to look elsewhere and take it from there. We don\u2019t have too many games now. We have 13 games so we will look to play the best team at all times,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cI see a lot of progress across all formats and I say that inspite of the (series) scoreline in England. When you look at actual performances in conditions that are foreign to us, we are more than happy,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIt is a learning process. If we learn from the mistakes that we made in South Africa and England, it will hold us in good stead in Australia. Test cricket obviously is different, it is the last series that we play before the World Cup. So the focus will be entirely on the series,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Speaking at the pre-departure press conference ahead of the Australian tour, Shastri said, \u201cWe will try to play (those) 15, who will go to the World Cup. Chopping and changing is over now. The grace period is over now.\u201d \u201cNow it is the time to really get focussed and play as a unit and then …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2240,2246,2238,201,2247,2243,2244,2239,2237,2242,2245,754,2241,748],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-australian-tour","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-chopping-and-changing","tag-india","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-msd","tag-pre-departure-press-conference","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-really-get-focussed","tag-thala","tag-virat-kohli","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-winning-skipper-mahendra-singh-dhoni"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}