AUCKLAND: Ahead of the second T20I against Australia, New Zealand’s rising sensation Rachin Ravindra on Thursday said his aim is not only to play for the Kiwis in the ICC T20 World Cup, but also to become an ICC T20 World Cup champion. A “multidimensional versatile cricketer”. The last five-six months have been quite good for Rachin and he made an impact during the ICC Cricket World Cup in India, scoring 578 runs in 10 innings, which included three centuries and two fifties. After some experience in Test cricket, he finally played a successful inning of 240 runs against South Africa in the first Test recently and now in the first T20I against Australia, he scored his first T20I half-century, 68 runs from 35 balls, two fours. And with the help of six sixes.
Now, after some strong performances across all formats of the game and securing a Rs 1.8 crore Indian Premier League (IPL) deal with five-time champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Ravindra has his eyes set not only on the T20 World Cup Are. , but are also proving their versatility. Ravindra wants to take each game as a learning experience and help the team win and has left the selection in the hands of the selectors.
“Not just looking at the T20 World Cup, I want to be a multi-dimensional versatile cricketer. A real all-rounder who can help the team in different ways and impact the game in different ways. He (The selection) will do everything, take care of yourself; I’m not too worried about things like that,” Ravindra said as quoted by ESPN Cricinfo.
“If I can take each game as a learning experience and take the team forward, that’s all that matters to me. If it leads to selection, then great. If it doesn’t, So it’s OK. I have a lot of time ahead. About me,” he said.
Ravindra has played 20 T20 matches so far, in which he has scored 214 runs in 18 innings at an average of 16.46 with one half-century. His strike rate is 133.75. He also has 11 wickets in his name in this format. The all-rounder admits that he has not played many T20 matches and he is gathering experience not only through his own performances but also by watching the leading all-format stars like Devon Conway, Kane Williamson, Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell etc.
“T20 is a format I haven’t played as much as other formats… so I feel like I’m gaining experience from each performance or innings, and learning from the people around me. People around me There are – the power of GPs like Dev [Glenn Phillips] and Daryl [Mitchell], [and] Kane [Williamson] obviously – [and] the way they switch between formats is a good model,” Ravindra said.
“It’s always a chore, being able to cut and change between formats – especially at international level. Having a block of three T20s in between (two Test series) is interesting to say the least. But it’s good Is – [it] brings a little freedom, and you can relax a little bit. [The] consequences are not as heavy,” he said.
The New Zealand management has been extremely careful about the workload of its new star and has rested him for four of the five T20 matches against Pakistan in January. Ravindra admitted that during that time he found it difficult to take some rest because he wanted to play.
“I found it difficult to have that rest period. Had a good chat with the coaches because they saw I was probably a bit tired. [Last year] I was away from New Zealand from August to December, so it was probably needed at that time. .At my age, you always want to play as much as possible, but it’s also something I’ve had to learn about myself,” he said.
The series between Australia and New Zealand is currently 1-0 in favor of Australia, who chased down the 216 runs given by the Kiwis in the first T20I thanks to big hitting from Mitchell Marsh (72) and Tim David (31).
New Zealand team: Finn Allen, Devon Conway (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Josh Clarkson, Mitchell Santner (c), Adam Milne, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult, Will Young, Ben Sears.
Australia team: Travis Head, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh (captain), Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (w), Tim David, Matthew Short, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Ellis, Spencer Johnson, Matthew Wade. , Steven Smith. (ANI)
Rachin Ravindra said – “I want to become a multidimensional, versatile cricketer”
