Rahul Dravid highlights India's big worry after WI series loss: 'Need to find..'

A day after India suffered a humiliating series defeat at the hands of West Indies head coach Rahul Dravid stressed on the need to add batting depth in the current toporder The Men in Blueplayed the series with a long tail comprising Arshdeep Singh Yuzvendra Chahal Kuldeep Yadav and Mukesh Kumar Spin allrounder Axar Patel batted at number sevenIn the series decider India failed to accelerate in the death overs to end up with a below par 1659 West Indies overhauled the target with two overs to spareI think in terms of our squad here probably it didnt allow us the flexibility in some ways to be able to change the combinations a little bit But I think going forward weve got to look at certain areas in which we can get betterFinding depth in our batting has been an area we are trying to address We are trying to do the best we possibly can but thats certainly an area we can look at how we cannot weaken our bowling attack but ensure we have a certain amount of depth in batting said Dravid on SundayAlso Read Team Indias Big Three and the inevitability of successionOn the contrary West Indies had Alzarri Joseph coming in at number 11 with their side packed with bowling allroundersAs these games are going on and scores are becoming bigger and bigger if you look at West Indies they had Alzarri Joseph coming in at No 11 and he can hit a mean ball So you have sides which have that depthObviously we have some challenges on that front and we need to work on that Its certainly something that this series has shown us and we need to build on that depth the India coach pointed outTilak Varma Yashasvi Jaiswal and Mukesh Kumar made their debuts in the T20 series and Dravid was left impressed by all of them Varma made his international debut in the series and showed he was here to stayI thought all the three guys who made debuts for us in this series stood up Yashasvi Jasiwal in the fourth game I thought he played a very good innings Hes shown us what he can do in the IPL and it was nice to see him replicate that in international cricketTilak Varma I thought was really good to come in in the middle order He came in sometimes in very difficult situations But every time he plays with a lot of intent plays very positively looks to move the game along fielded brilliantly throughout the series showed us he can bowl one or two overs as wellSo really positive signs from Tilak and to have that lefthander in the middle order does make a huge difference against some of the attacks that weve been playing againstPrior to his T20 debut Mukesh also played his first game for India in the Test and 50over formatHe debuted in all the formats in this series and I thought he acquitted himself really well His ability to bowl at the death sometimes he was called upon to bowl against some really big powerful hard hitters and he acquitted himself well for someone who was just playing his fourth or fifth gameSo I think theres some real good positives in the guys who made their debuts for us and hopefully they take confidence from the series and keep learning as they go forwardHowever the focus remains on the ODI format ahead of the Asia Cup and World Cup at homeDravid hinted that a few of the injured players including Jasprit Bumrah K L Rahul and Shreyas Iyer could feature in the Asia CupBumrahs comeback series will be against Ireland beginning August 18We a have few guys coming back from injuries in any case We have to give them opportunities to play in Asia Cup We have a one week camp in Bengaluru from August 23 for the Asia Cup We will take it as it comes he addedWith agency inputs