Nikhil doru

When Lucknow Super Giants: When Lucknow Super Giants needed 54 runs off 24 balls against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens, most of them had written off their chances of winning the match. But in a restaurant in Udaipur, Rajasthan’s batting coach Nikhil Doru hadn’t given up.

Having dinner with his friends, who don’t belong to the cricketing ecosystem, they quipped the match was out of LSG’s reach. But Doru was watching it differently and told them a certain Mukul Choudhary would win the game for LSG.

“I told them, ‘Mukul match jita dega (Mukul will win the match from here)’. Their reply was, ‘The situation is such that they cannot win from here. How can they win?’ I told them, ‘I have seen him play before and he will definitely win the match from here’. Right after saying this, he began to hit boundaries consistently,” recalled Doru in an exclusive conversation with IANS, ahead of LSG facing Gujarat Titans.