Published 15:52 IST, September 20th 2019
Kevin Pietersen left awestruck after Rahul Dravid's letter of advice
Kevin Pietersen had sought Rahul Dravid's advice on tackling spin. Dravid had sent a big note to KP which Pietersen revealed in his autobiography.
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Kevin Pietersen never hesitates in entertaining his fans on social media with different types of unique and invative strategies. Pietersen had earlier photoshopped himself in two ims which were related to Bollywood movie songs. He had left his fans in splits when he had morphed an im of himself shaking a leg with Madhuri Dixit and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan in 'Dhola Re' from movie Devdas and n same morphed im were used in ar song named 'Disco Deewane' from movie Student Of Year. KP was n seen playing blindfolded cricket where he kept on hitting ball out of park. Lately, a viral picture of Rahul Dravid's email to Kevin Pietersen has been going viral.
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Rahul Dravid's advice to Kevin Pietersen
Rahul Dravid and Kevin Pietersen got to kw each or well after duo played for IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore. KP was one of best batsmen during his playing days. However, even best have failed at some point in time and same happened with Kevin Pietersen as well. During England's tour of Bangladesh in 2010, 'Three Lions' had played a practice match prior to Test series where Pietersen had a forgettable outing as he could only man to score 2 and 20 in both innings and he had lost his wickets to spinners on both occasions. y were Shakib Al Hasan and Abdur Razzak respectively. Kevin Pietersen definitely wanted to improve and refore, he decided to seek advice from arguably best in business, Rahul Dravid about how to play spin. Rahul Dravid, who is also one of gentlemen of world cricket obliged and wrote a big te to former English skipper on how to tackle spinners effectively. World T20 winner went on to highlight this in his autobiography titled ‘KP: Autobiography’. A fan has posted a screenshot of Rahul Dravid's letter of advice to KP which went viral on social media. Take a look.
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Rahul Dravid's words of wisdom for KP
Here's what Dravid had asked Pietersen to follow in order to play spin well.
“One good practice is to bat against Swann and Monty without pads or with just knee pads (maybe t a day before a game!). When you have pads it will force you, sometimes painfully, to get bat forward off pads and will force you to watch ball. Also, leg will be less keen to push out without any protection."
“My coach would tell me you should never need pads to play spin!! Watch ball and trust yourself. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t play spin, I have seen you and you can."
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14:17 IST, September 20th 2019