‘There is only one Sachin Tendulkar and only one is Virat Kohli’: Mark Boucher. Exclusive interview | Cricket news
When we talk about Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and the stories of the dressing room, a name that immediately comes to mind is AB de Villiers, which he has shared for years. But last week, everyone was for a pleasant surprise when Virat Kohli credited South African wicketkeeper-botter Mark Boucher to guide him during his international and Indian Premier League (IPL) career. Kohli told ‘RCB Bold Diaries’ Podcast, “In fact, all the players I played with, Mark Boucher had the biggest influence on me.” Both spent three years in RCB.In 2008, Mark Boucher Looked at Kohli’s ability and told him that if he failed to form the senior Indian team, he would be making an dissatisfaction for himself. He took a young 20-year-old man under his wings, helped him practice during pure sessions and fed a war for bouncy tracks in South Africa and Australia.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Boucher said in a conversation on Monday (May 12), “I just tried to help him in his development in that particular stage. There was everything in his game. I think one thing we had had had a small ball and how to play the small ball.”“I think a small ball is something that is always tested with a young.
“” When you go to Australia, they are definitely going to test you on a short ball because you have come from the subcontinent. “I think my conversation was just helping her find her next level and making her aware of what the other teams would do to him.“He told me, ‘Bakh, can you help me?” I was so, ‘Yes, of course.’ I went and served a pair of tennis balls on it, showing him one or two small techniques.
File photo of former South Africa keeper Mark Boucher. (AI)
“I told him one day, it is not a good exercise to go to a net and one has to work on a small ball because sometimes you get hurt. Sometimes you get one or two balls around the ears, and it’s not good that it is every time and again. Head.
“We had a laugh, and it was nice fun because I think he believed that it was coming from a good place on my side.Boucher first met Virat for the first time and how a young man remembered “feudality” in a youth from Delhi and attracted his attention and reminded him of a small version of himself.“He was, how to put it, was a very easy person to speak. He was very open to listen to those who were older than him and perhaps more experienced than that. He was a little bit – it was difficult to say the attitude because the attitude comes incorrectly – but he had a character that he had a large extent.He said, “What was it was his talent that he had, and if you have got talent and you have found a character that comes with it and wants to succeed, I think it is always a recipe for success,” he says.A young Virat made the boucher’s experience the most and his early conversation revolved around cricket. The former cricketer still recalls chat on the art of playing spin, and how it leaves a permanent impression on the boucher.“I really used to talk to him a lot about spin bowling and how Indian cricketers have developed their brain from a little young age and play spin bowling to play spin bowling to try to develop them.”“I really remember the conversation that we had, and it went with the lines, I just said,” Virat, you are very talented and you’re very young. ” Now you have got the IPL ahead of you. I did not know that he was going to take everything in this way and building his own legacy. ,
To mention it and Sachin will be a dissatisfaction for both of them. I think there is only one Sachin Tendulkar, and I think there is only one Virat Kohli
Mark boucher
Over the years, Virat Kohli carried the burden of being the next Sachin Tendulkar But Boucher believes that it is unfair to compare Tendulkar and Kohli. He presents it with a crisp reaction: “To mention him and Sachin will be a dissatisfaction for both of them. I think only one is Sachin Tendulkar, and I think there is only one Virat Kohli. Both are full legends of the game.”When it comes to Kohli, a lot of tags have followed him over the years. It is called arrogant as arrogant, the captain of former India had to deal with a lot of external noise during his test career, but managed to give the results that had never been seen in Indian cricket before. It was under his captaincy that India saw a great period in Test cricket, where he led 40 of the 68 matches to Kohli, which lost only 17. The 40 wins made Kohli India’s most successful Test captain ever.
Virat Kohli’s file photo. (Image Credit: X)
“When he stepped into the Indian cricket team, the way he led people, I think it was sometimes saying that it was an ego, but I do not see it as an ego. I see it as confidence and also to a special person who is a different attitude for your normal Indian cricketer.“No cricketer should stand back, especially if you are playing for your country. You have earned the right to play for your country, and so there is a person at the other end. Never have a situation where you feel that you need to reduce the opposition. If you can take it, you can give it back. If you can give it, if you can give it, I think I like a lot.”Boucher further explained how that Virat inspired the current generation of cricketers with his “in your face” attitude. Feudal, fitness and overall dedication is the identity of Kohli’s career and has also closed future players.
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“Surely, they started living through the younger generation now. They are not standing back to anyone. They are very aggressive. They are on your face. There is a line for everything. You do not want to overcome the legitimacy of the line or game.“But of course, they go out of there, and they don’t feel afraid of anyone. Where perhaps in the past, before the Kohli Yuga, perhaps there was a little scare that had come in. They definitely changed it and changed it in such a way that any young Indian cricketer is being brought in today’s world, they are very tough.”
Kohli and his old friends “Bakh” remain in touch after all these years, but the conversation has now moved forward from short-pitch bowling to family and paternity.
