IND vs AUS: Australia’s center order batter Peter Handscomb has shared an anecdote of teaching from former India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane. Considered a great participant of spin, Handsomb was trusted by the Aussie selectors to carry out in India throughout the Border Gavaskar collection. The right-handed batter is the second-highest runs scorer for his facet after two video games.Â
The Aussie star has mirrored on an incident involving Rahane serving to him study going through spin circumstances in India. The two shared the dressing room throughout the IPL 2016 once they performed for the Rising Pune Supergiants. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald, Handscomb was in awe of the shots performed by Rahane and learnt the trick to play towards the spinners. “He was playing these shots off his back foot through midwicket which I thought were ridiculous. I was like, wow I need someone to teach me that. So we spoke about getting his front leg out of the way and being able to manipulate the ball from there. “That helps your again foot change into a scoring zone, after which in the event that they overpitch, you may hopefully rating off the entrance foot as properly. Then all their good balls you simply discover a approach to defend,” Handscomb mentioned.
The Aussie right-hander is one of two half-centurions from his facet on the tour thus far. In the 4 innings that he performed within the first two matches, Handscomb has scored 109 runs, together with an unbeaten 72-run knock within the first innings of the Delhi Test. However, the batter was outdone within the second innings. “India personally outplayed me in that scenario. They gave me my scoring hole, however with out the reward, so it was simply going to be a single, however tempted me to hit the ball there.
“And I fell for that and tried to manipulate the ball there when, had that been my third ball of the first innings, I would have just tried to defend, because I was still trying to understand the pitch and what was going on. For me, it’s just about being stronger and starting again. I probably walked out there thinking ‘I’m still on 72 not out, I can just pick up where I left off’, and you can’t think like that, ” he added.
Handscomb remorse errors made by staff
Meanwhile, the Aussie batter has regretted the errors his staff made within the second innings of the second check. “We still had a first innings lead, we’d done well there, we’d started well in the second innings and then it all just happened really fast and we didn’t stop it at any stage. The challenge is if there’s a moment where we have lost two or three quick ones, it’s being able to stop the flow for a second and let us all just take a step back, have a breath and then continue on with the game, and hopefully stem the flow of wickets that way,” he mentioned.
