Captaincy has helped me become a better batter: Kishan
Cricketer Ishan Kishan discusses how his experience with captaincy has improved his batting and situational awareness. He emphasizes that the process of being dropped from the national squad and returning through domestic cricket has helped him develop a more mature mindset.
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One of the hardest tasks for an international cricketer is how they respond to being dropped from the national squad and fight their way back. And over the last year, Ishan Kishan has shown the way to do it.
“Sometimes, when we play regularly for the Indian team, you just keep playing in a flow. You may be a very good player, which is why you’re playing for India, but your growth stagnates at a certain point. When you take one step back and go back to domestic cricket, you start from zero again,” said Kishan after smashing 270 for East Zone against South in the Duleep Trophy final here on Monday.
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