Ranji Trophy | Batters’ technical inadequacies a big worry for Tamil Nadu coach Senthilnathan

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Hinge troubled the TN batters.

Hinge troubled the TN batters. | Photo Credit: M. PERIASAMY

Despite managing a hard-fought gully against defending champion Vidarbha, Tamil Nadu manager M. Senthilnathan minced nary words portion describing the batters’ performance.

“Our batting is not clicking. Scoring against Nagaland is not enough. We were bully astatine 252 for 4 connected time one, and had we got different 100-150, it would person been a antithetic game. The lone affirmative was that we saved the game... different than that, I can’t instrumentality immoderate different positives from this,” said Senthilnathan.

The erstwhile Tamil Nadu subordinate felt that systemic changes were needed to guarantee that the batters were technically equipped to play astatine this level.

When frontline batters miss consecutive deliveries and get castled portion handling the pacers, exposing their method inadequacies, it’s clip to stem the rot.

“It is simply a large interest to spot batters getting bowled to consecutive deliveries. They either get crossed and are trapped leg-before, oregon to debar that, they are playing beside the enactment and getting bowled,” revealed the TN caput coach.

“But, astatine the aforesaid time, I won’t afloat blasted these boys for the mode they are playing. In the archetypal part league, they hardly play accelerated bowlers... erstwhile you travel to this level, 70% of what they are going to look is seamers.

“Unless we look prime accelerated bowling backmost home, we can’t expect them to bash excessively much,” said Senthilnathan.

Published - November 04, 2025 10:39 p.m. IST

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