Rahul learnt how to control shots

KL Rahul. Pic/AFP

Young India batsman KL Rahul says his unsuccessful trip to England in 2018 made him realise that holding back shots is important in tough conditions and that is helping him on the current tour.

Rahul had scored a century in a three-day warm up game before the Test series and produced a confident 84 in the first innings of the opening match, helping India take a 95-run lead.

"I used to have a lot of thoughts in my mind. I felt I could play two or three different shots for every given ball in red ball cricket, so that was something I realised, I had to learn to control," Rahul said during a media interaction after the end of third day's play on Friday. On that 2018 England tour, Rahul could score just one century in his 10 test innings and that too when India had lost the series. His scores were a dejecting 4, 13, 8, 10, 23, 36, 19, 0 and 37 before he came up with an effort of 149.

"Sometimes when the going gets tough or the wickets are challenging, playing against good bowlers, when the ball is swinging, you have to hold back some of the shots," he said.

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