Rahul Dravid seeks patience and understanding for young players

India head coach Rahul Dravid asked everyone to be patient with young players in his team who will have off days once in a while and will end up impacting the outcome of the match picking up unwanted records in the processYoungsters like the team like Arshdeep Singh Shubman Gill Shivam Mavi and Rahul Tripathi had an offday as India went down to Sri Lanka by 16 runs in the 2nd T20I here on Thursday night leaving the threematch series evenly poised 11Arshdeep bowled five noballs in the second T20I against Sri Lanka at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium here on Thursday night becoming only the second bowler after Hamish Rutherford to bowl so many noballs in a T20 international match involving ICC full member countriesHe also ended up conceding 37 runs in two overs as Sri Lankan opener Kusal Mendis took full advantage of the three freehits to smack him all around the ground taking 17 runs in his first over Arshdeep returned to bowl a couple of more noballs in the 19th over of the innings as India allowed Sri Lanka to raise 2066 in 20 oversIn response India lost early wickets losing Ishan Kishan Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi cheaply and though Axar Patel 65 and Suryakumar Yadav 51 helped them recover the hosts fell short and lost by 16 runsAlso readIndia vs Bangladesh Shubman Gill Cheteshwar Pujara in tonaton moodDavid said young players should not be blamed for the defeatWe need to be patient with a lot of these young kids There are a lot of youngsters playing in this team especially our bowling attack They are young kids they will have games like this We all need to be patient with them we need to be understanding that games like this can happen Dravid said in the postmatch press conference on ThursdayHe said the young guns are improving but as international cricket is a tough competition and a huge learning experience for them they are likely to have such offdays and advised everyone to be restrained and show patienceOf course they are improving we keep working hard and we need to help them and support them technically in whatever we can in terms of support and create the right environment and get the best of their skills Very skilful but they are learning its tough its not easy learning and playing international cricket and you have to learn on the job So yeah you got to have a little bit of patience with these guysThe good thing is this year a lot of focus is going to be on the 50over World Cup and the T20 games we have to give us the opportunity to try out these younger guys and hopefully give them opportunities and support them when they have tough games likes this which they will in future too said DravidIndia had given debuts to three youngsters Gill Mavi and Tripathi in the two T20Is played so far while Arshdeep played his first match after returning from illnessThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever