There will be days when the good bowlers in the opposition camp will execute their plans and take them to the sweepers. But, there will also be days in which accidents and burns will happen, and you must accept it because when you live by the sword you will also die by it. The key is that the method should win more than it costs you and it shouldn’t be something that gets in the way of lifting a team into a big match or knockout.
Even Suryakumar Yadav’s spark could not extinguish the fire so fast that India could get a big score in Perth on Sunday. It was one of those days, on a pitch with little juice against a fast bowling attack that knew where to put the ball. As is now standard, Suriya played his brand of cricket, which consisted of using pace, going after the bowling, attacking mercilessly but with smart shots in odd parts of the field, and scoring 68 runs off just 40 balls. . The rest of the team put together 57 runs in 80 balls, with eight additional players taking India for 133.
Every cricket coach tells young batsmen that they should first learn to determine the price and value of their wicket. Now, in Twenty20 cricket, this is hardly possible at the international level. The game has progressed at a fast pace, but the methods of coaching at different levels are not necessarily the same. While young players are playing more freely and fearlessly, using shots that a generation before them would have thought of as sacrilege, it has taken a lot of work to get the likes of Virat Kohli into this mode .
Kohli being a Kohli has in recent times found a method that works. Adopting the principle laid down by the team management, Kohli is taking more risks, playing more shots than before, even if he is doing so after setting up base.
Rohit Sharma has come out swinging, and the results have not been enough for him. In his last 10 matches, Rohit has scored 11, 17, 0, 0, 4 and 15 but in that time, he has scored four good scores including 72 off 41 balls, 46 not out in 20, 43 in 37 Are included. and 53 in 39. What Rohit has done is sacrifice big scores to set the tone at the top of the innings. He is setting an example of what he wants his batsmen to do.
But, it’s time to talk about KL Rahul. Once India’s leading T20 batsman – and his total is still impressive: 68 matches, 2150 runs, strike rate 139.42, 2 centuries and 20 half-centuries – he is now caught between a rock and a hard place. That day, Rahul, who was poked and blocked between launching a short ball to the on side, opened the face of the bat to Lungi Ngidi, took the ball straight to the lone slip fielder, and then nodded his head. Gone as if it had been undone by a spell cast by a magician. Rahul, who has every shot in the game and then some, is the vice-captain of the team, and it would be fair to say that he was involved in devising the new expressive and risk-taking batting approach that the team has come up with. Still, it doesn’t fully reflect how he has approached his batting. What you best associate with Rahul is missing the flourish, how he sets up for the first run, it is temporary and he is often looking at the ball instead of pushing hard and his choice of shots is poor. Used to be.
Almost all of these things point to a mind busy with things other than just playing the ball in hand. Rohit has stressed on the need to stay in the present. Rahul needs to do that at the crease, otherwise, even his position as vice-captain may soon find it difficult to stop him from being rested, benched or worse.
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