We know we have to keep improving but will carry this momentum into World Cup: Rahul Dravid

India head coach Rahul Dravid expressed satisfaction with Indias readiness for the upcoming ICC Mens Cricket World Cup after the 21 ODI series win against Australia despite the Indian team facing a defeat in the final matchDravid seemed highly impressed with the performance of Jasprit Bumrah KL Rahul and Ravichandran Ashwin in the series He said that it was important for the all those players to get some game time ahead of the World CupFor people like Jasprit Ashwin Shreyas KL getting game time was important The fact that they have been able to get that and getting that against a competitive side is a good thing The practice games or warm up games are generally people play 15 vs 15 so its tough to get that level of intensity in those games Dravid told reporters after third ODI on WednesdayAlso Read Intersperfect start ended by 21 loss to Sassuolo AC Milan catches city rival atop Serie AIts been great that Jassi Jasprit Bumrah got a couple of games and bowled his quota of 10 overs Siraj suffered from a bug but got back and was able to bowl today It was good to see how Ashwin bowled in the first two games KL and his keeping through fifty overs returning after 67 months has been great Shreyas has got some good knocks in the last couple of gamesI think there are lot of tick marks really happy with how things are going We know we are gonna get better and hopefully we can keep the momentum going into the World CupShreyas Iyer coming back after a back injury played a matchwinning knock of 105 off 90 deliveries in the second match of the series while Rahul also made a stunning return to international cricket after a right thigh injury layoff by smashing 111 not out against Pakistan in Super Four match of victorious Asia Cup campaign He built up on this by making a matchwinning fifty in the ODI series opener in MohaliDravid expressed contentment with the performance of his players who had returned from injury or other breaks There are always areas you want to improve on and we have ticked a lot of boxes Its nice to see that the guys who have been out with injury been away from a while from our perspective theyve been able to get some good cricket been able to spend time in the middle get some runs take some wickets but there are always little things that you can improveIts going to be a tough long tournament Were constantly looking to improve as a team even when we have results going our wayThe 50yearold also confirmed that the squad will assemble in Guwahati on September 28 or 29 for the first warmup fixtures scheduled on September 30Weve had a few issues with viral fever going around the group It was a balancing act in this game because of people going home for personal reasons Im expecting everybody to be there at Guwahati by 28th night or 29th early morning and hopefully the bug going around the ground has cleared up as well Dravid saidIndia will begin its World campaign on October 8 against Australia at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in ChennaiThis 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