A cricketer and his form, talent can be judged only when he plays the Test Cricket. Test matches are the real test for any cricketer in the world. After many discussions, many meetings, and a long wait, Anil Kumble was announced as the Head Coach for Team India.
Thus, Anil Kumble immediately started a practice session with Indian Cricket Team at Bangalore and challenged everyone for one hour unique challenge. This thought of Anil Kumble’s one hour challenge felt that The Cricket Advisory Committee Members banked their expectations on the right person after the seeing the test results of Anil Kumble.
The day began with a Yoga session and after completing it, Anil Kumble took the Indian cricket team to Alur, 40 kilometres away from Bangalore for a unique test. Here are the rules and tasks that Team India has to do in the Unique One Hour Challenge.
For Batsmen, they had to bat for full 1 Hour without getting out. And for Bowlers, get as many wickets as possible. Though it seems not so easy to the experienced batsmen who batted for hours while playing Test cricket, but the results are shocking. Interestingly and shockingly, only one batsman managed to bat throughout One Hour.
Here are the results of each player:
Virat Kohli was got out twice within 1 Hour.
And Ravindra Jadeja is the bowler who got Virat Kohli out on both the occasions.
Shikhar Dhawan was out twice behind the stumps.
Murali Vijay also couldn’t manage to keep his wicket safe and lost his wicket twice in 1 hour.
Ishant Sharma was the bowler who got Murali Vijay out on both occasions.
Both KL Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara were run out once in the 1-hour session.
These results are the real concern for New Coach Anil Kumble and all of us. If the batsmen can’t bat for at least one hour in our own ground, then how can we expect them to bat on West Indian pitches?
Ajinkya Rahane is the only batsman who survived Anil Kumble’s Amazing One Hour Challenge.
Let us hope for the best and support Team India for the upcoming tour of West Indies.