Kallis Backs Shubham, Mavi For Glory

    • TimesofIndia.com
    • Publish Date: Apr 16 2018 1:03PM
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    • Updated Date: Apr 16 2018 1:03PM
Kallis Backs Shubham, Mavi For Glory

Jacques Kallis, the retired allrounder turned head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, believes that two members of the successful Indian Under-19 team that won the junior World Cup this year can have lengthy international careers.

As coach of KKR, Kallis has studied batsman Shubman Gill and pace bowler Shivam Mavi from close quarter, and what he has seen has left him very impressed. Gill, 18, was the leading run-getter of the U-19 World Cup with four successive 50-plus scores in the tournament, including a match-winning century in the semi-final versus Pakistan. Ravi, 19, took nine wickets with a superb economy rate of 4.12 while impressing with his pace.

The pair was subsequently purchased by KKR for Rs 1.8 crore and Rs 3 crore respectively.

“Shubman Gill and Shivam Mavi have bags of talent and I would be very surprised if they don’t both have lengthy and illustrious professional careers. Obviously Gill has been a top-order batsman in every team he has played in but if his opportunity, for the moment, lies at six or seven then I’m sure he has the talent and temperament to be successful there,” wrote Kallis in his column for TOI.

“Mavi has plenty of pace which is very exciting and, although his opportunity was limited against the Sunrisers I see plenty more overs from him in the future.”

Two-time IPL champions KKR currently sit at fifth on the IPL 2018 points table with one win and two losses in a row. Their second defeat was a narrow one against table-topper Sunrisers Hyderabad, in which Kallis took solace from the way in which the franchise fought when defending just 138.

“We have fallen off the early pace with the defeat to Hyderabad and need to get back to winning ways soon. There is rarely much to be pleased with after a disappointing performance like that one but I was really impressed with the effort and determination to defend a sub-par total,” wrote Kallis, who in 70 matches for KKR scored 1603 runs and took 48 wickets.

“We have put ourselves under pressure at the back end of the tournament before and I’d rather not be in that situation again – so winning needs to start again soon, beginning against Delhi [Daredevils] on Monday. Coaching is not rocket science – we just need to make sure our basics are done a little better. We have some tough travel days and a demanding schedule over the next week but the positive side of that is that, if you get on a winning streak, a hard schedule can actually work in your favour.”

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Amogha TRIVENI PUBLIC SCHOOL

The batsmen have packed up and left the nets. Shubham Mavi and a shoe remain. It’s planted a yard and a half in front the stumps, just about where a batter would stand, and Mavi is having a hard go at it. A fast bowler running in to bowl without the batsman at the other end has an air of absurdity about it, for the setting is incomplete.

Amogha TRIVENI PUBLIC SCHOOL

It appears that all that physical effort is going into nothing. Or is it? Because where we see a shoe, Mavi sees an opportunity. With Rahul Dravid watching closely, he knocks it over again and again.

Amogha TRIVENI PUBLIC SCHOOL

With the India Under-19 team having won both their matches and made the quarterfinals, there is some room for experimentation in the spare fixture. The team management may be tempted to try the untested in the final Group D match against Nepal – though they will need to win it to avoid hosts Bangladesh in the quarterfinals.

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