“Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries, and laugh a lot, it’s good for you” — Rahul Tewatia, in 2...
“Never set limits, go after your dreams, don’t be afraid to push the boundaries, and laugh a lot, it’s good for you” — Rahul Tewatia, in 2017
In the end, Rahul Tewatia was smiling. His teammates were, too.
Many an international cricketer has said this in the past: comebacks of any kind are much more harder than debuts. When you are playing for the first time, the pressure is never absent, but to reset and go again in any form or shape is one of the hardest things there is in sport.
If that’s the case over a career, multiply that many times over during a match. Test cricket gives you the time to perhaps script a turnaround, one day internationals perhaps perhaps provide a window of opportunity here or there. But in a T20, most often you have good, bad or average days. You might be able to change your fortunes from ‘terrible’ to ‘alright that was not too bad’ or vice versa. Not much more, surely? It’s not your day, it’s not your day - that’s it, right?
But Rahul Tewatia, in Sharjah on Sunday, ripped that narrative to shreds.
“Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be” — Rahul Tewatia in 2017
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