Team India all-rounder Vijay Shankar’s career graph has not gone the way he has expected. He faced a lot of criticisms for failing to live up to the expectations ever since he made his international debut during the 2018 Nidahas Trophy in Sri Lanka. The all-rounder from Tamil Nadu has reacted to those time saying that it was extremely difficult to cope up with the situation.
The all-rounder, who came into the squad in place of Hardik Pandya, failed to time the ball in a critical situation. Vijay Shankar managed to score 17 runs off 19 deliveries when India needed a batsman to go all-out. In such circumstances, fortunately for India, their wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik saved the day with a quick-fire knock of 29 runs off eight deliveries.
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Meanwhile, Shankar received severe criticisms for failing to deliver the goods for his side. Eventually, he also let go off the opportunity to cement his berth in the playing XI. Although he was a part of the ICC World Cup squad but since then, he has not returned to the team. Reacting to the same, Vijay Shankar said that the social media trolls affected him a great deal.
“With social media, whatever you do, people have the freedom to comment on it. They have their own views and they can come up with anything. I’m someone who’s not much into social media. And even when you’re not into social media, it somehow gets to you. These things can definitely affect you. And it has definitely affected me when I made my T20 debut in Sri Lanka,” Vijay Shankar told Sportstar.
Recalling the tough time, Vijay Shankar said, he found it really difficult to go out of the house. The all-rounder also revealed that he was in tears every time he went back to sleep. However, Shankar didn’t bod down by all the social media trolls and worked hard to make a befitting comeback in the game.
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“It was pretty hard for me to come out of it. For the first one week, I found it really hard to go out of my house. Because, people would come up to me, and they would always ask me about the negative things that had happened. After the first two-three days, I was literally shattered. Every time I went back to sleep, I was in tears.
So, all I could do to come out of it was train really hard. I didn’t give myself any free time, for that’s when you generally get a lot of negative thoughts. Immediately after that tour, we had the IPL and I had a very good season. Everything changed from there. So, according to me, changing the perception is very, very easy. It just changes overnight,” Shankar concluded.
