India, March 1 -- A key hand who worked behind the scenes with New Zealand to help them beat Rohit and Co in India in 2024 was their spin bowling coach Rangana Herath. The Sri Lankan had finished his Test career with 433 wickets in 93 matches but he had never managed to guide his team to a Test series win in India.

In an interview, he spoke to HT about that and the bunch of left-arm spinners who will be on show in the upcoming India-New Zealand Champions Trophy tie. Excerpts...

Is a lot of your coaching technical or tactical?

So basically, when the players are playing for their country, that means, to be honest, you don't have to work much on technical things. It's more of a discussion as well as tactical things.

How confident are you...