How MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli's pep talk helped the Indian women's team...

R Sridhar, the fielding coach of the men's cricket team, said that pep talks from him and MS Dhoni might have contributed to the aggressive approach that Mithali Raj and Co displayed

Sydney: R Sridhar, the fielding coach of the men's cricket team, said that pep talks from him and M S Dhoni might have contributed to the aggressive approach that Mithali Raj and Co displayed.

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni. Pic//AFP

Sridhar said the girls played fearlessly, something that he and the men's team members had advised them to do in a chance meeting in Australia.

"It was nice to bump into the Indian women's team at Adelaide before the first T20I. I know the girls well from my tenure at the National Cricket Academy and we have helped them in a few camps," Sridhar told bcci.tv.

"All I told them was – 'these are one of the best batting wickets around the country and chasing a score will be a very good option. The very fact that captain Dhoni, Kohli, Harbhajan, Rahane and a few other boys went and met the girls at the ground shows that the men's team takes equal interest in the women's game," Sridhar said.

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