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Title: | uggs-IPL helps bring better fielding standards to Indian cricket |
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Description: | IPL helps bring better fielding standards to Indian cricket There were times when former India captains Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi or Ajit Wadekar were forced to hide their famous spin trio since they were poor fielders. Dhoni took over the reins of Indian cricket and won the ICC T20 World Cup in South Africa in 2007, his team too had slow movers, but extraordinary batsmen and bowlers served the team cause. He had admitted then of having a few weak fielders who had failed to stop the flow of runs or hold on to sharp catches. With the advent of IPL in 2008, the fielding standards in general began to improve, what with the franchises appointing specialists fielding coaches such as Jonty Rhodes (Mumbai Indians) and Steve Rixon (Chennai Super Kings). Seeing the early successes of Rajasthan Royals (2008) and Deccan Chargers (2009), it was clear that the two teams had immensely benefited from keen fielding displays. IPL brought about a complete transformation to fielding in its succes |