Mayank Agarwal, the 29 year-old Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) batsman recently spoke about the difference between playing in a T20 game and playing in a longer formats. Mayank, believes that there are always risk involved in competitive cricket but, claimed that T20 cricket requires players to take risks more often.
Agarwal has gone from strength to strength since his India debut on the 2018 Australia Test series. Mayank Agarwal, also believes that a player has to be cautious about the margin of error.
Speaking to Hindustan Times from Dubai, Mayank Agarwal said:
“Test cricket is an altogether different format; the focus is on batting for longer periods. In T20s you need explosive power, but it’s not just a power game. In competitive cricket margin of error is anyway less. If you make a mistake the other teams are ready to pounce on that. There is always risk involved, just that in T20s you have to take those risks a little more often.”
Starting with the highest score (76) by an Indian on Test debut in Australia, he became the second fastest to two double hundreds last year.
Mayank Agarwal has discussed his game with Kings XI Punjab (KXIP):
“We’ve been speaking about that (IPL form) even during the lockdown. Anil bhai told me the areas I can improve. We got down to watching lot of videos and (he) opened up different perspectives in my game on the field – figuring out how to turn those 40s, 50s into bigger scores and some other starts into match winning knocks,” Agarwal, 29, said in an interview from Dubai.
Till the game starts, it’s not decided where I will be batting; says, Mayank Agarwal
Agarwal has opened in Tests and List A matches, but batted mostly at No.3 in IPL 2019.
“Till the game starts, it’s not decided where I will be batting. I am really looking forward to this tournament. We have had some time to prepare in Bangalore as well as here. We still need to sit and talk; we need to go through each role and the position I’m going to bat.” said Mayank Agarwal.
KXIP, like Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals, is yet to win IPL.
