I Woke Up At 5’O Clock, Thinking That I Will Miss The Bus: Keaton Jennings
Dec 8, 2016 at 8:44 PM
Debutant Keaton Jennings, who scored a century today, revealed that he had the morning blues before the start of the game and added that he woke up 5 A.M. in the mornings, thinking that he might miss the bus and said, “I suppose waking up this morning if someone said to me you will get a Test match hundred, I would have put them off.
“I woke up at 5’O clock this morning thinking I will miss the bus. So jumped out of bed, settled myself down and then I saw the time. It’s been a dream-come-true and surreal that it’s come on debut.”
Talking about the dropped catch when he was yet to open his account, he said, “Thankfully it kind of hit his hand and got out. I had a little bit of luck but I suppose that’s the way the game goes sometimes. I am really thankful that the day has gone the way it has. When the ball lifted up to gully my heart was in my mouth and just thought you got a nought in your first innings. But thankfully it went to ground.”
The Indian fielder Karun Nair dropped Jennings when he was yet to open his account. Not just this as Jennings also survived a leg before the call on a score of 10 as the marginal difference helped him to survive, “At the time I thought it was close but when it got given not out I thought it might have kept outside the line. I knew I hadn’t hit it first. Thankful the decision went my way and not the other way around where the umpire’s call gets pulled against you.”
Talking about the reverse sweep shot, which he used to cross the 100 run line, Jennings said that it has been a shot which he has been playing for past many months and has failed in playing that shot, “It’s been a shot over the last six-eight months that I have played fairly successfully. At the moment I looked at the scoreboard and thought well rather than get out caught at first slip defending, I would rather try to get to the hundred.”
Concluding the presser with a word of praise for R Ashwin, Jennings rated him as a good bowler and the best one in the world, “He’s a really good bowler, he’s one of the best bowlers in the world. I think his average against left-handers was 18 when we walked up to bat. You don’t get stats like that from not knowing what you are doing. You try and come up with a game plan against him and try and back yourself and your technique and process to combat him,” he concluded.