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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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And that kept me on my toes. I had the fire in me that whenever I would get the chance, I will do well.
I try to be very intentional about being present when I’m home. No phone, no distractions, just being there.
But I think in terms of mental preparation, it changes across the formats. Where we are playing and who we are playing also matters and defines our preparations in team meetings.
So this is the little homework we would do before to put some options in our minds for game time.
I’m in a place where I just want to win games for my team and country so my batting position doesn’t matter.
That’s something I’ve become more conscious of recently, and it makes a big difference
I think we had a settled senior opening pair that was doing well so coming back from injury, I had to wait for my chances.
As players, we have learnt that it is white noise and doesn’t affect anything
In that moment, I look at the scoreboard and talk to my batting partner, and my mind focusses on what I need to do for the team.
So I’m using the break to do whatever homework I can for it.
I think I learnt a lot of lessons from there about how to keep calm and handle pressure, and doing it at such an early stage in my career has definitely benefitted me.
You don’t get a breather so a lot of times when you are an opener and your team is batting second, your legs and mind could be tired from fielding; so to pick yourself up from that is really hard.
So I went into that Zimbabwe series with confidence and was hitting the ball well.
So I’ve been busy with all of that. Getting the leadership role is a good progression in my playing career.
As for me, I’ve been sitting and doing some homework. I’ve been watching some videos from the past to see the things I was doing right and the areas I could improve on.
That’s what we would think when preparing for a Test match. But for a T20, we would think about how we can put the bowler under pressure and how we can score maximum runs off him.
I know that at the end of the day, I will get what I deserve for the hard work I put into the game. So I’ve learnt how to shut that noise out but sometimes it is hard on the family.
I think no one has anything against me so if they criticize me it is so I can be better and help the team more. So I’ve been trying to use comments about me as energy to train harder.
I think they are the ones it affects the most [when I’m criticized]. As players, when you see your family is getting hurt, that is when you start to be affected or you start to react.
You don’t know what the pitch is going to be like. You just go into the middle and if you get off to a good start, you set your team up for victory. If it is an ODI or T20, you get to bat the entire innings.