“We’ll take a call after a couple of days of training,” Dravid stated. “He’s had a long session today in terms of training today, we’ll assess it tomorrow as well, once he comes in for a light hit, and see how he feels in the evening. But certainly, if he’s fit and ready to go and ready to take the load of a five-day Test match, then it is without doubt that his performance means he will walk straight into the side.”
“Without it being written in stone and without it being a rule, we certainly value contributions of people who’ve been there, and if they’ve missed out due to injury, they deserve the right to come back in, if they’ve performed, irrespective of what has happened in the time that they’ve been injured,” Dravid stated.
“So yes, it’s something that I can’t answer for everyone, but it’s certainly the outlook of the team management [in this case]. And yes, Shreyas has played well against spin, but what’s really stood out has been his temperament. We’ve been in quite a few pressure situations with Shreyas around, right from the first Test match that he played, his debut game in Kanpur.
“We’ve been in some robust conditions, and he and Rishabh [Pant] and [Ravindra] Jadeja, actually, have been the ones who’ve been bailing us out and taking part in these vital knocks. His temperament in Bangladesh, once we have been beneath strain, together with Ashwin. That’s one thing that is a extremely good signal, clearly alongside together with his ability of taking part in spin rather well.
“He’s spent a lot of time in domestic cricket before getting in, so he obviously understands how to get runs, but I think at this level, also what really counts is your ability to deal with those pressure situations, that temperament, that ability to find solutions and find answers when we’re under pressure, and from the little sample size that we have, he’s been very good at that.
“It’ll be good to have him again, and he actually has been certainly one of our higher gamers, he deserves it, and folks in the crew perceive that as nicely. They know that if they’re changing somebody who’s injured, that particular person will in all probability come again, and the identical factor will be adopted for them as nicely – if they get injured, hopefully we’ll have the ability to give them the identical remedy as nicely.”