Magrat Garlick
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did alright but please don't put videos of your 6yo prodigies online people
And sometimes hopes are fulfilled ?Hope to God the kid is allowed a normal life and gets into cricket for the right reasons, like coz he loves it etc...
And hope he doesn't get bogged too much with the pressure and stuff. All the best to him...
His old man took them down a while ago.Where are the young videos of Rachin? Would love to see it. It's like one in a million chance a kid will make it as a professional. Too much exposure too early is not good. This is quite rampant in US. Baseball, basketball prodigies all around but most don't make it. And the football prodigies in Europe. Wonder how many really made it. Only couple of days ago saw another kid smashing it with a stick in a make shift net at home. Unbelievable skills. Surprisingly there was a comment the kid couldn't afford a bat and was looking for a sponsorship. Come on now seriously if you have enough to set up a net at home surely you got 30 dollars to buy a kashmir willow. The kid is only really smashing a plastic ball. Posting video is all right but wrong priority wanting a sponsor for a 6 year old.
Can't be bothered reading from all the way back but can certainly confirm Rachin's talent was quite obvious. I've seen him since he probably was 9 or 10. Lovely kid and a great role model for younger kids in Wellington.
Which one the last one I posted? That kid is crazy good. Amazing balance. Still buying a lottery and winning is a lot easier than good talented very young kids go on to make the national sides. Too many variables involved.That video is a deepfake.
Nah lotto is probably lower odds. 1 in a million vs 1 in 50000 sorta thing.Which one the last one I posted? That kid is crazy good. Amazing balance. Still buying a lottery and winning is a lot easier than good talented very young kids go on to make the national sides. Too many variables involved.
Oh I have a November 2007 one somewhere, but cbf.It's a shame those videos were taken down, I remember watching them ... might have been not long before they disappeared. Would be great to look back on now ... maybe now Rachin has made it, it wouldn't put any pressure on him either (I'm guessing that's why they were removed).
I get what you say as for numbers but I think he's going to be a beast with the bat. I have seen some cricket in my life and this guy is different. Takes a lot of courage, ability and maturity between ears to open batting in NZ. If he wasn't good he wouldn't make the squad particularly now given our stock. Our selection process is not that dud and I back them.Oh I have a November 2007 one somewhere, but cbf.
Craft beer depressive Wellington Neil Miller/Joseph Romanos types are really turning 'I heart Rachin' into something I resent. A 17 ave. in NZ's Super Smash isn't really that precocious or stupendous. Still very young, but hitting 38 in the Shield (vs. Conway's 65+, or Ronchi's 55+) is also just Bharat Popli stuff for now.
And with that, it is confirmed that @Xuhaib is Nostradamus.With the batting stocks that the Kiwis usually have, if the lad keeps up the good work then I expect him to get in the team by 2014 and then to score 1000+ each year so expect this post digging to take place by 2019-2020
no it's just survivorship biasit's a funny one. parents embodying overly intense dad trope are rightly ridiculed because they usually break their kids who can never live up to their parents extreme expectations, but both ravindra and williamson's fathers coached them for test cricket from a very early age. kumar sangakkara and one of the indian dads are overseas examples.
i wonder if their fathers' did something differently, or if the kids were just survivors with natures more suited to dealing with fruit loop parents. im quite a bit older than my sibling and i've seen more than enough broken teenagers for my liking.
Sports dads are absolute psychos, I'm pretty glad my dad just dropped me off then told me to get a lift back home after the game from the coach or whoever.it's a funny one. parents embodying overly intense dad trope are rightly ridiculed because they usually break their kids who can never live up to their parents extreme expectations, but both ravindra and williamson's fathers coached them for test cricket from a very early age. kumar sangakkara and one of the indian dads are overseas examples.
i wonder if their fathers' did something differently, or if the kids were just survivors with natures more suited to dealing with fruit loop parents. im quite a bit older than my sibling and i've seen more than enough broken teenagers for my liking.
Oh the media usually can't get enough of a 150kph man, in normal circumstances. It's probably because Sears is (well, boringly Caucasian and male) and also slightly awkwardly high in intelligence, fairly socially clumsy. Anything he says would come out as an excessively spicy and quirky take.He doesn't get much media just because he's a bowler.
Yup.Sports dads are absolute psychos, I'm pretty glad my dad just dropped me off then told me to get a lift back home after the game from the coach or whoever.
Kane and Rachin both seem quite laid back grounded individuals, I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Don’t seem to put a lot of pressure on themselves, and have the ability to block out outside noise. I can imagine a lot of the kids with super driven parents are weighed down by the crazy expectation, especially if they don’t love the game themselves.it's a funny one. parents embodying overly intense dad trope are rightly ridiculed because they usually break their kids who can never live up to their parents extreme expectations, but both ravindra and williamson's fathers coached them for test cricket from a very early age. kumar sangakkara and one of the indian dads are overseas examples.
i wonder if their fathers' did something differently, or if the kids were just survivors with natures more suited to dealing with fruit loop parents. im quite a bit older than my sibling and i've seen more than enough broken teenagers for my liking.