Team India is scheduled to tour South Africa for a full series early next year and many feel that skipper Virat Kohli should be rested during the two-month long ongoing home series against Sri Lanka, but the captain insisted that he would ask for rest only when needed. Sridhar said that "Each team member is very proud to represent his proud country in the world at any given opportunity. Most of the team love to play every match. Knowing Virat, he wears his pride on his sleeve.

As long as his body allows he would not miss a single second of the match,"  Asked why three-Test old Hardik Pandya was taken off the squad after the all-rounder sought for rest, Sridhar said: "The parameters we take into consideration is the workload. "The time he spent at the crease, overs, batting...based on that, the team management takes a call on who needs to be rotated."

The Indian team is considered a supremely confident fielding side and Sridhar gave credit to players' putting in a lot of hard work. "We are not doing any magic trick. As far as fielding goes, the formula is very simple, the more you practice the better you get. You can see the results because it's a controllable skill of the game, unlike bowling and batting which one cannot control.