at the eden gardens and instructs the batsmen to clear the infield in chappells position stands a cab umpire who only helps each batsman to mark out his guard while shastri flipflops from one net to the other shastri of course conducts video analysis sessions with the players chosen for the bangladesh trip at the team hotelone gets the feeling that former indian pacer prasad is the key man in the new setup he is the man who has been chalking out the practice schedules and can be seen constantly interacting with the players having played with quite a few of them prasad and robin singh are clearly more acceptable to the current bunch of playersprasad is more hands on hell go straight up to the bowler and point out where he is going wrong he is a welcome addition one of the players confidedthe new regime is also clearly struggling to cope with the numbers apart from the 22 chosen for the tests and odis the selectors have also added five young pacers to group raising the number to 27 and even though vvs laxman reportedly indisposed and dinesh karthik who just got married are yet to show up the team management is struggling to make full use of the available manpower at the conditioning campthe practice sessions arent as busy as they used to be in chappells time one would hardly find a player taking a long rest once through with his batting when the hardnosed aussie was in charge these days the seniors can afford to get their breath back once theyre through with their batting or bowling if the players are being lectured about the mental aspect of game its certainly not happening at the ground lateral thinking is passe the new motto is to play with josh given the mental makeup of the indian players not too many would mind the new approachthe new regime of course has kept the media at arms length not one word has been spoken or exchanged with the press corps ever since the camp began this has also suited the seniors who are quite enjoying a rather soft buildup to a tour thats going to be anything but easyits quite a turnaround for shastri who used to be a part of the media before taking up this oneoff assignment after all he had told match referee mike denness quite brusquely during that controversial test match against south africa in port elizabeth in 2001 to leave the press conference if he was not ready to answer any questionsneither shastri nor the newlyappointed administrative manager surendra bhave have cared to update the media on even injuries or concerns in the team the cricket manager of course has successfully imported a yoga expert sukhdev sharma from singapore all the coolingdown drills that ought to have been handled by trainer gregory king are now being overseen by sharma its not mandatory for everyone to attend these sessionsafter having taken one step forward