India has seized the Border-Gavaskar Trophy fourth time in a row after the last match went for a draw in Narendra Modi Stadium of Ahmedabad. The thing that has been adored the most in the last Test Match is Virat’s daddy hundred. Virat took a long gap of three years to score his hundred in red ball cricket.
Virat posted a mammoth 186 runs off 364 with the help of 15 fours while batting in the first inning of India in the final fourth test match of the series. However, Virat’s confidence in himself has become the center of attention when he said in response to head coach Rahul Dravid when he asked about his feeling on not being able to score a hundred for so long.
Rahul Dravid when asked in an interview for BCCI TV about his feelings on not hitting a hundred after 3 years. He asked,
“I know you are someone who takes a lot of pride in his performance and has that habit of scoring 100 regularly. I know there was COVID, so, not a lot of Test matches but has it been hard not to have scored a Test hundred (for this long)? I know we get a little obsessed with numbers. I’ve loved seeing some of the other innings. Even the 70 in Cape Town was a really good innings. But has (not scoring a hundred) been at the back of your mind?”
Virat responded in an emotional sense saying, “Honestly, I’ve let the complications grow on me a bit because of my shortcomings. The desperation to get to the three-figure mark is something that can grow on you as a batsman. I let that happen to me to a certain extent. But a flip side to it is, I’m not a guy who is happy with 40-45. I take a lot of pride in performing for the team. It’s not like when Virat Kohli should stand out. When I’m batting on 40, I know I can get a 150. That was eating me up a lot. Why am I not able to get that big score for the team? Because I took pride in the fact that when the team needed me, I stood up, scoring in difficult conditions. The fact that I wasn’t able to do that, was bothering me.”
