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born 1992 India
Kannaur Lokesh Rahul (Kannada: [kaɳːuːɾ loːkeːʃ ɾaːhul]; born 18 April 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He plays for the Indian national cricket team.
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Another point is as an opener you don’t get a good break when you bat second. You finish fielding and have to run into the dressing room to change and get into the middle quickly.
Your teammates lower down the order take advantage of that and everyone on the scoreboard might have centuries while you as an opener had an early dismissal. So that is really frustrating.
I’ve been watching a lot of cricket and trying to improve mentally on the areas that I think I can improve.
I really value my downtime and those small, almost sacred resting rituals that help me switch off and reset.
I grew up being an opening batsman so that’s the place I’m most comfortable and I know what exactly I have to do.
I think when I’m batting in the middle, after facing the first five-six balls, the noise automatically fades away.
I don’t know how to explain it but I feel like you can find silence even with 1 lakh fans screaming in the stadium.
But I think it will always be a process and there is no cricketer who will know exactly what to do; that’s the fun of life and sport.
In terms of skill preparation, I don’t think there’s anything we do differently; in terms of skills, we keep it the same across formats.
I always tell people that before you criticize a player, just put yourself in his shoes and try to understand what he must be going through.
In the match, we kind of hope that those mental preparations are right and our body will make the right call to pull it off.
Number one is that as an opener, you set the pace of the game. That is so thrilling and exciting, especially as a youngster.
A perfect day off is genuinely simple. No alarms, a slow breakfast, maybe take the dog out, just be at home without any schedule.
So that helps both your body and mind get into that position so you are ready for the match situation.
But I had suffered injuries before the league and had been in and out of the Indian team.
But I’m also a person who needs a challenge and having to bat at different positions is a good challenge for me. So I’m enjoying that challenge.
But sometimes it affects them and indirectly it affects us too. I don’t think it’s going to change but I’m hopeful the fans will realize that we are also people.
I think the biggest surprise is how it makes everything else feel more meaningful, not less
The confidence made me realize that if I put my mind to it, I could achieve things that I hadn’t even imagined before.
Another point is in Test matches when you have to bat out the day; to pad up just for two-three overs as the opening batsman, I really don’t like that. I don’t think any opening batsman likes that.