Former Indian middle-order batter Ajinkya Rahane, who recently announced his retirement from all forms of the game, has opened up on the advice he had received from the former England captain Ben Stokes during the IPL 2017 season.
Speaking exclusively on the Overlap Cricket YouTube channel, Rahane has revealed that turning off all his social media apps during away tours has helped him to do well. He went on to add that what he sees on social media is just temporary, and what people talk about you could always change.
Ajinkya Rahane Reveals the Truth:
“I delete all the social media apps when the series is on. But no one advises us to, and that’s just my own advice to myself. I remember Ben Stokes advising me not to see social media in 2017 when we played together in the IPL. Creating a routine helped me individually deal with this once I am in my room. Just things like watching something on Netflix or some other app, reading a book, chatting to family, and ironing my clothes for the next day,” Ajinkya Rahane said on the Overlap Cricket YouTube channel.
“I have my team who manages everything. Whatever I have to post, I generally send them the photo, and if there is anything to be approved, they’ll send it to me. This really helped me a lot on tours. There is a temptation to log in to these apps when you have done well and see all the comments. But that’s just temporary; what people talk about you,” he added.
Furthermore, Rahane also strolled down memory lane to recall how the former Indian skipper MS Dhoni used to always keep his door open for his teammates. However, he added that when Dhoni’s door was shut, no one was allowed in.
“He’s (MS Dhoni) very calm and cool and just a very normal human being like everyone. His room was almost always open for anyone to do anything. So many times, 10 to 15 of them or even the whole team were in his room. But when his door was shut, no one was allowed,” he concluded.
