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Harshit Rana has shared crucial bowling advice from ace India batter Virat Kohli during Sri Lanka tour, helping him improve his game.
Virat Kohli shared some beneficial bowling advice with Harshit Rana (Picture credit: AFP)
Star India pacer Harshit Rana has revealed a vital bowling advice that he received from ace batter Virat Kohli in the course of the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka last yr, wherein the latter asked Rana to bowl to a certain length to make sure that batters couldn’t drive him and would as an alternative nick the ball.
Although Rana could only make his ODI debut earlier this yr against England, he had received a call-up for the Sri Lanka series last yr.
While one would expect Kohli to impart batting advice to imminent children, he also delivered some bowling tricks to Rana.
“I used to be bowling within the nets to Virat bhaiya. It was my first tour and he wouldn’t have seen me bowling in one-dayers. I used to be bowling at a certain length and after he got here out of the nets, he told me to vary my length,” Rana said while speaking on Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast.
“He asked me to bowl between 5-6m, whereas I used to be bowling around 7-8m. Virat bhaiya said that if I were to do this, I could extract a nick from the batter and it could be tough for them to drive me. He jogged my memory that twice,” Rana said.
The star Indian pacer was a part of KKR’s IPL-winning team last yr and finished as his team’s joint second-highest wicket-taker with 19 wickets in 13 outings.
Asked if he feels bad that the legends of the sport are slowly bidding goodbye and the chance to learn from them is proscribed, Rana said, “Definitely it does. Rohit and Virat bhaiya have at all times told me to remain true to my game, keep expressing myself and never change it.”
“Don’t pay heed to the skin noise, they’ve said. The day you perform well, people will speak well. If you happen to put up a basic performance, people will criticise you,” Rana said.
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