India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate previews the second test v England

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India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate previews the second test v England   30/06/2025  Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham, UK

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00:00Guys, session coach Ryan Chandrushkadi with us.

00:03As usual, we'll take one question at a time.

00:06We'll take questions from here first and then we'll move on.

00:09Why don't you go first here, please?

00:11Ryan, can you give some clarity on Kubra's availability for the game?

00:15Yeah, he's available for the game, obviously.

00:18We know from the start he's only going to play three out of the five.

00:20He's obviously had eight days to recover from the last test.

00:23But you know, given conditions and workload

00:26and how we think we can best manage for the next four games,

00:29we haven't made a call on that.

00:30We're going to see what the other guys are with their workload as well.

00:32So technically, yes, he's available.

00:34But we haven't made a decision on whether he's going to play or not yet.

00:37Hi, Coach.

00:38Coach, we saw a new look slipcord after the last game.

00:41Today at the practice, Mithish and Sai joining the fourth slip.

00:45You're just having a separate drill along with head coach and yourself.

00:49Can you describe what's the plan going on with the slipcord?

00:52Is it because of the last match or is it the team trying to do something?

00:56Look, I think we always want depth in the catching department.

00:59In England, you're always going to have four catches at some stage in the game.

01:02You know, Yashish V has been a very good catcher for us.

01:05We want to manage his confidence.

01:07There's also an argument for the short leg, you know,

01:10being a very important position, particularly if we are going to play two spinners.

01:13And we want to prep more guys in that position.

01:16So I think the more versatile we are as a fielding unit,

01:18the more guys who can do more jobs.

01:20And maybe just to give Yashish V a break from catching him in the gully for a little while.

01:23His hands are quite sore.

01:25We want to get his confidence back up.

01:27Ryan, can you tell about the wicket?

01:30You know, you guys have a long chat about it.

01:32And the second part of it is that are you surprised?

01:36Because KL said in the first match press conference that at the very last part of the test match,

01:41he thinks that, yes, we are playing in England.

01:44Before that, it was, you know, weather-wise quite subcontinent kind of conditions.

01:48So can you talk about it?

01:50Are you surprised the kind of wickets, the kind of weather here,

01:53and the kind of, you know, assistance the bowlers are getting from the wicket?

01:58I don't think the cleverest people in the world can tell you about the weather in England.

02:01It's very varied.

02:02But obviously the summers can be hot here,

02:04and the last four or five weeks has been incredibly hot.

02:07I also think England's style, the way they have played,

02:09it suits them to play on good wickets.

02:11So I'm not surprised that the wickets have been good so far.

02:13That surface there looks quite dry underneath.

02:15It looks like it's going to play well.

02:16It's got 11 miles on at the moment.

02:18But I see what KL means.

02:20You know, you come to England, you expect the ball to swing

02:22and seam all over the show.

02:23But that hasn't been the case in county cricket as well.

02:25The batch of balls is very dependent on how much the wicket does as well.

02:29And look, that Headingley wicket was a very good wicket.

02:32They got better and better,

02:33and we're kind of assuming the same from what we've seen at the first look of this wicket.

02:36Just one day to the game, you said that you haven't made up your mind yet as a group with regards to Bumrah.

02:43But how close or far is he from the game, and if there are any hindrances on that front?

02:48Like what's the discussion like with regards to Bumrah?

02:51Is the body not in the shape you want it to be,

02:53or do you want him to be preserved for probably the Lord's game?

02:57And second, is there a case for Kuldeep considering how hot it is there

03:01and how the county games have been built up to the test?

03:05Yeah, so with Bumrah, he is ready to play.

03:07So like I said in the very first question, it's how we manage these four tests.

03:12So if we feel like there's value in playing him in this test,

03:14we'll make that call at the very last minute.

03:16But I'm talking about how the pitch is going to play.

03:19Are we better off holding him back for Lord's and maybe Manchester or the Oval?

03:23So it's all those factors.

03:25But, you know, you've seen him train yesterday, he trained a little bit today.

03:28It's not like he's not fit to play.

03:30It's just trying to fit those puzzle pieces to get the most out of him,

03:34out of what we know we do have from him.

03:36And your question about Kuldeep, you know, we'd love to get him into the team.

03:41Playing two all-rounders in the last game, we're desperate.

03:46It would have been nice to have a spin in the last game.

03:48Also, we're trying to make the best assessment on what we see in front of us.

03:51So we know we're going to need three seamers in this game.

03:54And it's just how you manage that, you know, that 6-7-8 role.

03:57The guys are going to play that role and whether we can fit Kuldeep in now

04:00or again save him for later in the series where if the weather stays,

04:03like I said, it should turn somewhere along the line.

04:05You talked about the number 6-7-8.

04:08There has been a concern in the last test match.

04:12So considering that, how far is Nitesh ready from getting a game now?

04:18He's very close to getting a game.

04:31Obviously, he was fantastic in Australia, you know, coming into the team

04:34and playing the way he did.

04:36We just felt on balance for the last game.

04:38We wanted to go with the bowling all-rounder, which we thought Chodil was slightly ahead on the bowling front.

04:43We're looking at ways of rejigging the puzzle, yeah, so we can get a batting all-rounder in.

04:47And obviously, Nitesh is our premium batting all-rounder at the moment.

04:50So I would say it's a very good chance to play this test.

04:53Yeah, it's not a new contraption.

05:05All the ball manufacturers make those balls.

05:08We talk about detox and the bowlers just getting the very basics right.

05:11And that's the easiest way to give you an indication.

05:13You know, guys have come out of a long RPL season and the filthy habits of that cricket.

05:18We don't want that creeping into red ball cricket, into test cricket.

05:22So Mourne and the bowlers just use that tool just to make sure the basic fundamentals are in place.

05:26We've been using it for the last two weeks.

05:28It's not a new thing.

05:30How disappointing was how important is it to not make the nature of the actions

05:35and the sort of keep the play from what we started with?

05:38It's very important.

05:39I think for everyone, you know, you don't mind being totally outplayed in a test match and you lose.

05:44We felt like we exhausted everything.

05:46We felt like we were really good in the majority of those sessions.

05:49But unfortunately, the two sessions that we lost, we lost really, really badly.

05:52So, you know, we feel like we played four days of good cricket and we've lost that game in the end.

05:57So we're not going to get too down on it.

05:59But it's absolutely imperative that we stay focused on the whole goal of the five games and this four to go.

06:05And we just need to be at our best and give ourselves the best chance to win a test match here this week.

06:09Ryan, ever since the start of Australia Tour, given you all don't have a proper same bowling ball now,

06:16you have kind of juggled batting depth as it is trying to go for 20 wickets.

06:24Is it like after the last test, wickets still fell in the lower order?

06:30How close are you or have you discussed just going in with four tail enders and just going all out with three wickets?

06:37We have.

06:39And, you know, when you're 430 for three, it's absolutely fine.

06:43But when you're 200 for five, it's a very different ballgame.

06:45So in terms of, you know, managing the strategy there, we're looking at each bowler individually,

06:50feeling what we feel they can get wickets-wise.

06:53And then it's just trying to balance up and, you know, trying to calculate as best you can what the best chance of,

06:58A, getting into the test match, but like you say, you need 20 wickets.

07:01So the attacking party is obviously finding someone who can get wickets as well.

07:04And we grew up in with that.

07:06We don't stop talking about that.

07:07We're trying to figure it out.

07:09Last few.

07:10Ryan, A, you must have had a look at the wicket.

07:14What's the wicket like?

07:16And is there a possibility to play two spinners on this track?

07:21Yeah, it's a great question.

07:22There's a very strong chance of playing two spinners.

07:24It's just which two we play.

07:25And that goes back to the previous question about juggling the batting depth.

07:29All three spinners are bowling very nicely.

07:31Washi's batting very nicely.

07:33So it's just which combination do we go with all-rounder spinner or the out-and-out spinner.

07:36Then obviously you have to play the bowling all-rounder again.

07:39So there's so many different variables.

07:41The wicket's got 11 mils on at the moment.

07:4311 or 12.

07:44I can't remember which of the two.

07:45But it's quite grassy and patchy.

07:46It's quite dry underneath.

07:48But there's also rain forecast for Wednesday.

07:51So again, trying to weigh up the two options of how we want to go attacking-wise.

07:56But I'm pretty sure two spinners will play in this test.

07:59Last talk.

08:00Ryan, 1-1, anything is possible.

08:03We know how close the teams are because of Headingley was a really close test match.

08:07So 1-1, anything is possible.

08:082-0, it's a long way back.

08:10In that sense, is it tempting just to play Jasper and Quimirov because of the difference it might make to the stage of the sense of the series?

08:18It is.

08:19But we also feel we can go 1-1 or keep the score at 1-0 without Jasper.

08:23And then, again, that's putting the eggs in the back end of the series.

08:26We're going to need him at some stage as well.

08:28You've got to decide when you're going to play your strongest suits.

08:31And that's what I was talking about, about the weather and all that.

08:33But we feel that whatever we put out there, we can compete in this test match.

08:37And we came pretty close without Jasper in the second half.

08:40He didn't get any wickets.

08:42But you can't win the test series with just one bowler in any case.

08:45And the bowlers are very well aware that they need to chip in with wickets.

08:48So, sorry, I can't give you a more firm answer.

08:51But, yeah, we'll work out in the next 24 hours how we're going to manage Jasper.

08:57Final question.

08:58All right.

08:59Is there a chance of Dave getting a game here?

09:02Is there a chance of Dave getting a game here?

09:05There is.

09:06I think I've said yes to every single player.

09:08There is.

09:11You know, again, going back to the spin combination.

09:14If we are going to go to spinners,

09:16Osteep obviously provides a little bit more control.

09:19And you've got a left arm running in over the wickets.

09:22You know, if we do want to put our eggs in that basket.

09:24I don't know if you saw the seamers.

09:26They all had a good trot out today.

09:27We feel that they're all there and there about.

09:29And they're all eligible for selection.

09:31So, again, looking over the five series,

09:34how are we going to manage the five seamers that we do have,

09:37the out-and-out seamers.

09:38But Osteep is definitely in the selection mix for this test.

09:44Cheers.

09:45Thanks, sir.

09:47Happy birthday.

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