When Matt Renshaw Received Words of Wisdom from Rahul Dravid

Australia’s southpaw opening batsman Matt Renshaw was injured in the recently concluded Quadrangular series. However, the left-hander was able to spend some quality time with India A and Under-19 coach Rahul Dravid during the practice session. Thus, Renshaw was able to get some invaluable tips from the Wall. Therefore, he was able to make the most of his time in India.

Renshaw believes he was able to grasp some tips from the Indian cricket legend. Meanwhile, Renshaw had impressed on his previous tour of India where he had played against spin with guile.

“I spoke to him a bit – my Dad has done a bit of work for his academy over there,” Renshaw told cricket.com.au. “I spoke to him a little bit over there and just (took away) some little things, little gems of wisdom.

“Someone who’s got (over) 11,000.  Test runs are someone you want to take as much from as possible. He was always really welcoming and very good to us talking to (me).

“I talk about my ping-pong game being a little bit like Rahul Dravid – I just try to get everything back. I’ll think about doing that in a Test match.”

Renshaw believes he has got areas to improve on his game despite scoring a couple of the fifties in the last tour of India. Thus, he is keen to work on his game.

“I watched a little bit of footage of my India tour last year,” he said. “Although I got a couple of  fifties, there are still areas I could work on and going big in those series would have helped us.”

Meanwhile, Matt Renshaw is looking forward to the upcoming opportunities. Australia will tour UAE to take on Pakistan for two Test matches.

“They’ve got a new young side, who have been really successful in the white-ball format, so I think they’ll bring a lot of success over to the red ball and it will be a really good challenge in their home conditions. Their spinners are good, but one thing I took out from (last year) India series was working a lot more on pace.

“A few of the lessons I’ve learnt … is concentrating when those quicks come back on. You have a little time where you switch off against the quicks in the subcontinent because the spinners are coming at you so hard that the quicks are a bit of a break, but we don’t want to have that mentality.”

Matt Renshaw will like to make the most of the opportunity in the coming tour of UAE. Australia is without the services of Steven Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft which has opened doors for other players.