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Doeschate then delves into the deeper importance of having a wider pool of players to choose from.

There are guys who can play multiple roles depending on where we are playing, which is extremely important for balance. You see someone like Ryan (Parag) who hasn't batted much in this series.

“We have seen someone (Nitish Kumar Reddy) who can finish as well as bat at 4-5. That's why in this bilateral series we try to match these elements together as best as we can,” he added.

However, to this end, Douchet placed emphasis on keeping cricket in the right mental zone.

We push the boundaries of what we can do as a team. “Obviously we have the standards to do that, but it's about giving players the confidence that they're in a safe place, to let them know that not everything is going well, that's OK,” he said.

It's about giving them the freedom to step up and do it, and they're certainly good enough to do it. So it's just a mindset of scoring runs and hitting every ball out of 120 balls.

Former Dutch all-rounder Sanju used Samson as an example as the Kerala pacer had two disappointing performances in Gwalior and New Delhi.

If you look back at the first two matches, Sanju, in the first match at Gwalior, was easy for him to knock out and score a fifty. But you can see that he is trying to push the boundaries and conveys the message quite coherently.

“We want the guys to develop their own game, we want to take cricket forward at this stage and we want to be ready for the big moments that will come over the next 18 months,” he explained.

As a result, he suggested that Samson will get another chance to prove his worth in the third T20I.

We try to enable as many boys as possible to gain international experience. We want to give Sanju another chance so there are options and of course the plan was to win the series and then try some new faces in the last game, he said.

Doeschate suggests that India will continue the new trend of frontline batsmen like Suryakumar Yadav and Rinku Singh to support the main bowlers.

We're getting to a situation where we don't want too many bowlers, but the way the batting is going, it gives us the option of picking another specialist bowler when we feel the difference is big enough. However, it gives the captain many opportunities.

It's very rare for five or even six bowlers to do well in one day, so it's good to have an alternative. Ideally, they would have bowled a little more, but someone like Hardik not bowling in the last match, which is a testament to the strength of the bowling team, he suggested.

The score was 5-0 in sight

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Amidst all these finer details, Duschet has not lost sight of the fact that there is a must-win game against Bangladesh on Saturday.

Gauti's message (serious) is about the importance of every match you play for your country and putting yourself under pressure every time, so there is absolutely no question of not focusing on that for tomorrow. We want to win and end the series 5-0 (2-0 in Tests and 3-0 in T20Is), he added.

Doeschate said such a relatively low-intensity series offers the added benefit of gaining more knowledge about fringe players.

Jitesh (Sharma) and the guys who haven't played, Tilak (Burma) and Harshit, keep them around and see how they work and what strings we need to pull to get the best out of them because they will be important in the next 18 months he resigned