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Virat Kohli’s ‘Ranchoddas-Like’ Advice To West Indies Player Shows His Test-Cricket Mindset


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Over 12 years ago, one of the best Bollywood films of all time - 3 Idiots gave the viewers one of the most iconic dialogues which enabled them to envision their future in a whole new way.

“Success ke peeche mat bhaago, excellence ka peecha karo. Success jhak maarke tumhare peeche ayegi (Don’t run after success, chase exellence instead. Success will follow you),” Aamir Khan’s character Ranchoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad had said in the movie.

It was not only motivational but also made a lot of sense, which drove numerous students towards excellence and success was theirs at the end of the day.

West Indies batsman Jermaine Blackwood is one such student but the only difference is that his Rancho was Indian skipper Virat Kohli who’d given him similar advice, moulded in the context of cricket.

In a conversation with ESPNcricinfo, Blackwood spoke about how a conversation with Kohli allowed him to look at red-ball cricket from a different perspective which unlocked his true potential as a batsman and achieve great heights in the longest format of the game. 

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I talked to Virat Kohli a few times as well on social media. The last time India toured the Caribbean, I had a chance to talk to him in Jamaica when I was there subbing,” he said in the interview, talking about how he was unable to turn his half centuries into centuries.

"So after the game, I just had a small conversation. I asked him about how I have a lot of half-centuries and [only] one century. He just said, 'What will you do when you score a century? How many deliveries did you face?' I said I faced 212 balls,” said Blackwood.

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"He said, 'That's it, once you can bat some balls, you're going to score runs'. So I took a big thing from that. After that conversation, I tell myself that once I can bat over 200 or 300 balls, the way I bat, I can score runs regardless of who I am playing against or where I am playing," he added.

Instead of trying to score as many runs as possible, Kohli suggested that he should focus more on batting for longer periods of time and the runs will flow in automatically.

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Now, over the last two Test series the Windies have played against big teams like England and New Zealand, Blackwood remained the highest run-scorer for his side. It is safe to say that Kohli’s words were truly of wisdom, then.

The world audience of cricket gave a lot of attention to the 2020-21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy especially because it marked the resumption of Indian cricket after the coronavirus lockdown. The heroic comeback and the exciting end to the series for the Men in Blue restored some (if not all) of Test cricket’s interest which had begun to fade away with time and the rise in popularity of the shorter formats.

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Virat Kohli however, has always been a strong ambassador of red-ball and considered it to be the true test of a cricketer’s ability on the field. It is true that he is a brilliant athlete and a gifted scorer in limited-overs matches but his prowess, textbook technique and strong mentality is put on display when he plays for his country in the white kit.


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