Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar, who scored over 13,000 international runs in his career, said he never looked at the scoreboard while batting and never set a target at the crease.
the former India The skipper also said that his aim was always to bat in Test matches, right from the start of the game till stumps.
“I didn’t look at the scoreboard when I was batting, because every batsman has his own way of setting targets. The small targets are what the coach tells you first, reaching 10, 20 and 30, which is a Nice way,” Gavaskar said.
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Speaking at the ‘Spotlight Session’ during Infocomm 2022, an IT event organized by ABP Group on Thursday, Gavaskar said to get rid of the pressure of reaching a particular target, playing each ball on its own merit without looking at the scoreboard needed.
“The way I was looking at it was if my target was to reach 30, if I reached anywhere around 24-25, I would be very worried and try to reach 30. Then I would play the outside ball. Stump or something, take it out and get out for 26, trying to hit the boundary that would take me to 30,” he said.
Sharing an interesting anecdote, Gavaskar said that he did not realize when he equaled Sir Don Bradman’s 29th Test century as he was not used to looking at the scoreboard.
“I didn’t know anything until (Dilip) Vengsarkar came and told me about this achievement,” he said.
Gavaskar equaled Bradman’s record of 29 Test hundreds in 1983 against the West Indies in New Delhi.
The batting wizard said that his aim was to score 100 runs every time he went out to bat.
He said, ‘The prize I kept on my wicket was always 100. I always wanted a century; I wanted to achieve so little it was obviously impossible, even Sir Don Bradman couldn’t do it in every innings. So, my whole idea was to bat the session; From the first session till lunch, then till tea and then till the end of the game.”
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