Former Indian skipper, Rahul Dravid has termed his success beautifully by comparing it with his back-foot punch in his heydays. He also added that the success of a cricketer can’t be measured with his runs and wickets, rather how hard he tried to deliver defines and decides everything. Rahul Dravid said that a batsman averaging 50 in international cricket has failed a lot more times than he has succeeded.
Dravid explained, “Success is being the best you can be. Personally, at least, at the end of the day success is not about a lot of runs or wickets or things like that. If you are able to sit back and [look back] on your career and say, ‘Hey, I gave it my best shot, I tried my very best’… Sometimes you might play a lot of cricket, sometimes you play less cricket. You can’t compare yourself with other people – at the end of the day it’s your journey, so just be the best that you can be.”
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He further elaborated, “In cricket, you fail a lot more than you succeed. In batting, in general, you fail a lot more. If you consider a fifty as a success point, you don’t cross fifty in the majority of your innings, so you do learn to fail a lot in cricket, and a guy who has an average of 50 in international cricket has failed a lot more times than he has succeeded.”
Former Indian skipper went on to suggested that concentration is the aspect of cricket that needs to be worked upon by a lot of practice. According to him, a cricketer can increase his focus and concentration by playing in the middle amid scorching heat and match pressure.
Dravid explained, “The ability to be focused, stay in the moment, to play that one ball at a time is a very, very important skill. I must admit that I was a little bit lucky in that inherently my nature’s such that I’ve had the ability to concentrate. Over the years, playing the game and watching other people play the game, you sort of realizing that you got to be able to work on it and develop it and be able to have confidence in it under extreme pressure. To be able to switch back on and keep that focus and do those simple routines requires practice.”
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Rahul Dravid elaborated over the years while batting at nets he learned that the best way to be able to concentrate or bat for a long time is to practice the presser when one has the opportunity in the middle.
