Indian cricket team’s opening batsman for Test cricket, Mayank Agarwal, has opened up on the advice he received from Indian cricket team’s new Head Coach Rahul Dravid before the New Zealand Test series.
Mayank Agarwal has been Indian team’s mainstay as a opening batsman in Test cricket for the last couple of years.
However, with players like Shubman Gill, KL Rahul stepping up their game, Mayank had lost his position in the Indian team after the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
In 2021, Mayank Agarwal has just played 3 matches (including the 2 matches against New Zealand) out of the lot that the Indian team played. In those 3 matches, he has scored 289 runs.
Mayank didn’t had the best of start to the New Zealand series as the right-hand opening batsman could only 30 runs in the first Test match in Kanpur.
However, he made a solid comeback in the next match in Mumbai and played a match winning knock of 150 runs in the 1st inning, and followed that up with another 50 plus score in the 2nd inning. Thus, India won the 2nd Test in Mumbai and also won the series.
Agarwal reveal advice he received from Rahul Dravid
While speaking to Sportskeeda in an exclusive interview, Mayank revealed the advice that he received from the new Indian cricket team Head Coach Rahul Dravid.
Mayank stated that Rahul Dravid had told him that though he is not getting any runs, he needs to manage his emotion and mental energy.
Mayank continued that Rahul had asked him to not dwell too much into thoughts. He further added that Rahul Dravid asked him to stick to his technique which has brought him many runs, and then runs will eventually come.
Mayank Agarwal Stats
The Karnataka domestic cricketer had made his India international debut on the 26th of December 2018, against Australia. He has till now played 16 Test matches and has scored 1294 runs at an average of 47.9.
After his Test debut, in which he scored 76 runs in the first inning itself, he also went on to make his ODI debut two years later in 2020. He has played only 5 ODI matches and has scored 86 runs.
