Cricket is a game of angles - Rahane

[zen]

 

"You need self-belief as a player and a batsman," he said. "Even if the pitch is or isn't doing much you need to showcase to the bowler that I've come to counterattack. That doesn't mean you need to play lots of shots, it may be subtle changes like stepping out or walking down the pitch. If the batsman can show that intent then it puts the doubt in the bowlers' mind, he has to think how he can adjust.

 

"On pitches that are damp or seam around, it is important to use the angles. I believe cricket is a game of angles, the better you can use the angles as a bowler or a batsman the greater chance of success. But to change or adjust those angles there are times you need to be instinctive while you are batting.

 

"It can mean standing on off stump, or standing outside the crease, or staying deep inside the crease - like if it is a pitch for the cut shot then you can stand deeper in the crease. This is the mental side of the game that the batsman and bowlers need to play. For me as a batsman, it is important you show your intent to the bowler; if you stand in one spot then the bowler doesn't need to change anything. These are small things we have been working on in practice and how to use the crease and the angles. Doesn't matter how much you practice, you must trust or have the belief to be able to do it in the middle." 

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[zen]

The pitch is a rectangle, the ground a circle

Create angles to work a miracle

 

Rahane in SENA is a dump

Needs to use his angles to score with a thump 

 

Angles have led you back to the pavilion 

Time to forgot the angles and hit the vermillion 

 

 

[express bowling]

And he needs to be D'angled' with his head down if he fails to perform again.

[Sean Bradley]

All this Bol Bacchan is of no use when you cant go out there and score big runs...

[SK_IH]

Run of the mill batsman getting 5 star treatment. Indian cricket deserves better than this one dimensional phoney.

[WC2011INDIA]

This chutiyah will score nothing in this test match. He is pathetic.

[Nikola]

I first read it as 'Cricket is game of angels'

[rtmohanlal]

all theories & nothing performance

[Turning_track]

Talk is cheap, it is the performance on the field which matters. Time to pull up socks & do the job when it truly matters. 

[vvvslaxman]

Thanks for your brilliant double century Rahane in the first test.

[Gollum]

This guy is a bigger jabroni than Ashwin, at least the latter consistently delivers in some conditions.

[nitinbwj]

Chup kar BC.. run bana. 

[MCcricket]

Crickets a matter of Angles, Shastri has an Angle, so does Srinivasan, Kohli n Bhabi n Lukkhane

Edited February 28, 2020 by MCcricket

[Sandeep99]

He’s so surely gonna fail in the next test it’s not even funny

[Vk1]

If some American guy read that article he might think that Rahane is some Federer of cricket.. so much gyan that he doesn't seem to apply lol 

[Unstable Joe]

Makes sense now why he fails to score much. Probably busy calculating sin theta & cos theta in his mind instead of watching the ball

Edited February 28, 2020 by Unstable Joe

[The Realist]

Lol intent.

 

Cheerleader shows more intent on a night out than timid Rahane at the crease.

[maniac]

Make him batting coach. Will do better than the current garbage 

[Bhaiyya]

On 2/27/2020 at 8:14 AM, zen said:

That doesn't mean you need to play lots of shots, it may be subtle changes like stepping out or walking down the pitch.

Just like you stepped out/ walked down the pitch in 1st test against Aus in AUS and got your a*se served on a plate by Lyon

[G_B_]

23 hours ago, zen said:

The pitch is a rectangle, the ground a circle

Create angles to work a miracle

 

Rahane in SENA is a dump

Needs to use his angles to score with a thump 

 

Angles have led you back to the pavilion 

Time to forgot the angles and hit the vermillion 

 

 

ok, so what are the averages of other Indian batsman in sena?