Veteran opener Shikhar Dhawan opened on coping with negativity throughout his topsy-turvy profession, saying his readability and quietness has enabled him to experience over tough occasions. There was lots of speak about Dhawan’s poor kind in home cricket, however because it has been with the 36-year-old, he was again with a bang in his favorite blue shirt with a top-score of 79 off 84 balls, albeit in a shedding trigger within the first ODI towards South Africa.
South Africa vs India, 1st ODI: Highlights”I don’t listen to the media or don’t read newspapers or watch the news, that way I don’t take all that information,” Dhawan said when asked how he keeps himself away from negativity. For him, neither the bad patch has affected him for the first time nor is it going to be the last time, but one needs to have self-belief in one’s abilities.”I’ve full confidence in myself that what my sport is and I’ve readability on that and I keep fairly calm. And that is a part of life, this occurs in life, everybody’s life has ups and downs, so it’s nothing new and taking place for the primary time or for the final time in my profession or my life, so it’s alright, that solely makes me stronger,” mentioned Dhawan.Dhawan got here into the collection on the again of a poor run of Hazare Trophy scores — 0, 12, 14, 18, 12 in 5 List A video games.”These talks (to drop him) always are there and I am used to it and I just know how to give my best and I always make sure that my preparation is quite good and the process is good and then I leave it on God…..and I know that with my experience and my self-confidence, I’ll do good and I am happy that I did well today,” the flamboyant opener quipped.His endeavour is to stay match and wholesome for the final a part of his profession.”With my experience, I’ll keep scoring lots of runs and yeah, till the time I keep playing cricket I stay healthy and happy and I score lot of runs,” he said knowing well that he was reaching the business end of his career.Not an easy wicket to play shots in middle overs Dhawan’s assessment of his team’s 31-run defeat against South Africa was struggling to keep the scoreboard ticking in the middle overs as the pitch got slower.”We had an excellent begin and I really feel the wicket was gradual, it was providing a little bit of flip as effectively. So, when you’re chasing (round) 300 runs, when the middle-order involves bat, it isn’t straightforward to play photographs.”Our wickets fell in a heap and that had an impact on us as a batting unit,” Dhawan reasoned.Dhawan also praised the South African duo of Temba Bavuma (110 off 143) and Rassie van der Dussen (129 not out off 96) for their well-crafted hundreds that laid the platform for a convincing win.Asked what was the turning point of the game, he said, “I really feel each the South African batsmen (batters) batted fairly effectively and so they took the innings fairly deep.” Younger batters must mould sport as per calls for.
