World Cup 2015: Dhoni wants Jadeja to 'step up'

PERTH: Indian skipper MS Dhoni was overall happy with the team's performance as he thought the pitch was a difficult one to bat on and sometimes chasing low scores can be tricky.
He said that in the event it was good that the lower order batting was tested in the match going ahead on the tournament. And it augurs well for the remaining matches, including the knockouts.
Excerpts of his post-match briefing:
On Ravindra Jadeja:
I think he needs to improve. He needs to step up really because we have a lot of faith in him, but at the end of the day you can't really play with hope. What you want is actually performance on the field. He has that capability. You don't get three triple hundreds in India just because you know how to bat. He's definitely talented, but he needs to keep believing in himself. Every batsman will be tested in a few areas. They will bowl short-pitched deliveries to him. He will have to find a way in which he can tackle it.
On conditions in New Zealand:
We have had a fantastic journey to New Zealand from here. We go to Melbourne. From Melbourne we go to Auckland. From Auckland we drive to Hamilton, and we reach at midnight. I don't know what time we leave, so we have perfect journey, should do for us that will keep us busy. That will give us less time to think about cricket. But that's something we have to deal with. The conditions will be slightly different. The grounds will be slightly smaller over there. But again, the last tour when we were there, to some extent that will help us, knowing the condition, the grounds and all of that. Hope fully since we have played with the same set of players for a long period now, the last two, two and a half, three years, hopefully they remember what needs to be done.
On spinners role in NZ:
Well, again, the problem is the side looks better when we play with two spinners. Even though Jadeja is not performing really well as a batsman, but he still gives you that comfort if he is at six or seven, one of the slots, it looks like a slightly better side. We also have to keep in mind the slower rate because a lot of people dig into the stats. Someone told me whenever we have played with four fast bowlers, 90 percent of the time we lose and 100 percent of the time the captain gets banned. It becomes a difficult one. But at the same time as I said, hopefully the spinners, they would have learned from the last outing in New Zealand.