Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag makes batting look easy, punishing the best of bowlers nonchalantly. The reason for his success is to keep his batting simple, and follow just three basic rules.
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00:00As a mentor, I think that skill is important, but skill will take you to a certain level and after that you have to be mentally strong, mentally tough, tune your mind to score big runs, to achieve bigger things.
00:14So if you are not mentally tough and you are skillful, then I don't think you can achieve big goals.
00:19In my batting, I was not technically correct, but I was mentally strong and because of that, my mental toughness, I scored big runs.
00:29300 twice, then 200, then one day 200 and another big 100.
00:33So if I was not able to cope up with that strong mindset, I don't think I was able to score big runs.
00:39So we are here as mentors, spend time with the kids, so they will learn skills, but they will learn the mental toughness and mental tuning also.
00:48How to prepare, what to do when you are not scoring runs, what to do when you are scoring runs, what should be your daily routine to prepare yourself.
00:56My funda in my batting is very simple. So I follow three rules. Which one I can hit, which one I can defend, which one I can leave.
01:05And my shot selection was spot on with these three. So which one I can leave, which one I can defend and which one I can hit.
01:13So if you keep it simple and mentally tough and believing yourself that you can score runs, you can hit a good ball also, you can hit a bad ball also, then maybe you will get the success in your way.
01:25Every day in the nets, I am batting like I am batting in the game. So if I get out, I walk out from the net.
01:32That's an important point. People take it easy.
01:35Absolutely. Kids play hours and hours in the nets, bowl hours and hours or bat hours and hours in the nets, but they make a lot of mistakes.
01:45They got out many times. So give a challenge to yourself that if I get out, done for the day.
01:51So like if I am playing a one-day match or a test match, if I get out on the first ball, so my day is finished. So I have to wait for the next game.
01:58So similar way, if you prepare yourself and tune your mind like that, then you are worried about all the time how you will score runs and slowly, slowly you become mentally tough to score runs.
02:09There are so many kids who ask questions that I am not scoring runs, what to do?
02:13So I tell them that make sure you check your batting stance, make sure you check your head position, make sure you check your thought process.
02:19Because what happens when you are not scoring runs, you keep thinking about that last game, last ball. You should not do that.
02:26Correct.
02:27You should focus on that next ball all the time. So even if you got beaten, you should not worry about that ball because you survived that ball.
02:33So next ball, maybe it's a half-volley or a short pitch to hit boundaries.
02:36But if you are always thinking about the past, it's difficult to play in future or play in present.
02:42So make sure that you occupied your mind with the positive thoughts rather than negatives.
02:48I think game is the same, the bowler and batsman. Just the ball change and the clothing change.
02:53So you need a mindset that you have to understand that in test match one day of T20, which one is a good ball, which one is a bad ball.
02:59And which one is an okay ball to rotate the strike.
03:03So if your shot selection is good, doesn't matter if you play test cricket one day of T20, you always score runs.
03:08Look at Virat Kohli, look at Steve Smith, look at Joe Root, Kane Williamson.
03:12They are successful T20 one day and test players.
03:15Because their shot selection is better than others. And they are mentally tougher than others.
03:21I think mentally strong is important. I have seen a lot of players, they don't have a good technique.
03:26Their stance is different, their bat is coming from outside.
03:29But still they manage to score runs because they are mentally tough.
03:32They have a lot of patience.
03:34I learnt from Murali Dharan that if I want to take 5 wicket hold, I have to bowl 30 or 35 overs.
03:40Then only I get a 5 wicket hold.
03:42Maybe once or twice in my life I got 5 wicket hold in 10 overs.
03:46But end of the day you have to bowl 30 overs with patience.
03:49Make sure that best man will make mistakes and then only you get the wicket.
03:54So similar way as a batsman, so I have to show a lot of patience to score runs and to tackle the bowlers.
03:59Good bowler or bad bowler doesn't matter.
04:01Bowler is a bowler. Good ball or bad ball doesn't matter.
04:04That's what ball and tackle matter.
04:05Yeah. So good ball is a good ball for Tendulkar, Sehwag or Kohli or Rohit Sharma.
04:10And bad ball is a bad ball for everyone.
04:12So you have to pick the bad ball to hit for force.
04:14Good ball, either you defend it or leave it.
04:16I practice like that way in the nets, especially in my early days.
04:20So if I was hitting bad shot in the nets, my coach was asking me to come out and stay with other boys.
04:26So I won't get batting if I play badly in the nets.
04:29So you have to follow the discipline in the nets and that same discipline you carry in the game.
04:34So I played T20 in 2003-04 when I have been to play the county cricket.
04:39So I played their T20 cricket.
04:42So I was playing one day as a T20 only.
04:44My first test inning, in my first test match I scored 100 against South Africa in Blue Frontier.
04:50That was always my best innings.