Mumbai and Kolkata Knight Riders’ batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi says he judges his performances with how his crew fares whereas he retains engaged on multiplying his abilities as a prime order-batter and wicketkeeper.
In a crew which has New Zealand’s Tim Seifert and uncapped Indian Tejasvi Dahiya as specialist wicketkeepers, Raghuvanshi’s abilities behind the wickets might be helpful for Kolkata Knight Riders who, like different groups, can be challenged to search out their proper mixture within the early phases of the Indian Premier League. “My Mumbai T20 team needed me to keep and so I said, ‘ Why not? It’s a new challenge and I enjoyed it a lot and I’ve been practicing it quite a bit and we’ll see what happens with it,” Raghuvanshi advised PTI in an unique interview.
With competitors for spots in Indian groups throughout codecs intensifying and specialist batters like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tilak Varma additionally engaged on their bowling abilities continuously, Raghuvanshi is in for the robust battle too. But he doesn’t need to have a look at the competitors simply but.
“I don’t really think about that too much. I just think about improving my own game as much as I can,” he stated. “But yeah, it’s a very dynamic game and so I’m always working on, along with my batting, my fielding skills and my wicket-keeping skills also. I’m just trying to improve day by day and learn and get as better as I can,” Raghuvanshi added.
While the 21-year-old didn’t get many alternatives in red-ball home cricket for Mumbai, he featured in each white-ball tournaments, the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy and the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
“I felt I prepared as hard as I could, but I only judge my performances based on whether the team has won or not,” Raghuvanshi stated.
“We (Mumbai) didn’t win any of the white-ball tournaments. But it’s okay, (there are) lots of learnings from it and I will work harder and come back a better player.”
“All the seasons that I will play are going to be equally big because I play every match like it’s going to be my last. I play every match as important as the next match. I feel I’ve been playing a lot of crickets this year, so I’m well prepared and hopefully I can do the job for the team and help my team win,” Raghuvanshi added. With his mentor and coach Abhishek Nayar taking up as the pinnacle coach of KKR, Raghuvanshi is assured there’s a lot to study from the previous India participant. “It’s going to be a great learning experience for me as well as the entire team. He has a great cricketing mind and (he is) a great person,” he stated.
“We can all… I have already learned a lot from him and this season will be nothing different. I’ll continue to learn a lot from him and hopefully we win a lot of matches and we win the tournament together,” Raghuvanshi added.
There was, nonetheless, a regarding second when Raghuvanshi was stretchered off the sector throughout a Vijay Hazare Trophy match towards Uttarakhand in Jaipur final December whereas making an attempt a catch.
“It was only scary for the first 10 minutes,” he recalled.
“I got a little dizzy, but then after that our team doctor was with me throughout and he checked for any symptoms of concussion. If I felt dizzy or if I felt nauseous for the next two days, but there was nothing and I was fine after that and back playing after two days,” Raghuvanshi added.
