Dear KL Rahul,
You know all those wild feelings running riots in me now are wildly inexplicable? How can I put a label to all that excitement which I felt witnessing you back in the ground? Oh KL that was glory coming alive. It probably meant so much to me just because you were subjected to endless criticism and yet you chose to face it all.
Today, though you proved it to the world that all of them, I repeat all of those critiques were so very wrong. The innings was all about glory, it was about triumph, it was about hunger and most importantly it was about belief. The way you carved your own path despite all those criticisms and all those question marks that were being thrown at you by all others, believe me that is not from this world.
KL, a few things that this knock of yours probably taught me is that hanging in there is probably the most difficult step of your journey. You would keep on falling over and over again. Getting back on your feet will feel agonizingly wrong for you. And there will be countless reasons for you to probably give up. And yet you somehow found the only one to just stay in there and keep on fighting.
Believe me, this is probably the most difficult part that you would come across and yet the way you came all guns blazing was simply brilliant. There were shots being hammered away into every nook and cranny of the ground while you kept on running consistently with one of the fittest athletes of all time, Virat Kohli.
The temperament that you exhibited was simply mind-blowing while the calm in your eyes was nothing but a blazing validation to what you are capable of if you start going all guns blazing. Probably this is just the first game and a lot will still be talked about, a lot will come knocking on the doors yet and I have the belief now that you would survive it all.
KL, thank you for making me believe in that unwavering faith that one must have in himself. Thank you for standing up one more time despite the fact that life chose to knock you down for countless times now. Thank you for today. The belief in you just got stronger.
Yours sincerely,
A crazy cricket fan
