Rahul sad he was not part of team in Indore

“Not being a part of that Test team in Indore where we became the number one Test side was heart-breaking. But those were little things that woke me up every day in the morning. I had to work hard mentally and physically to convince myself that the recovery process will take time but slowly and surely I will be back on the field. And, here I am back in the Indian team,” Rahul told BCCI TV on Wednesday. 

Rahul said that the Ranji match against Rajasthan where he scored 76 and 106 gave him enough confidence to get back into the Indian team as he felt he was fully fit. “It was important to play a firstclass game to give myself the confidence that I was indeed fit. I could have spent a lot of time doing rehab in Bengaluru with the physio and spent time in the gym but until and unless I had played a proper cricket game, I wouldn’t have known how fit I was.” “It was important for me to get my confidence up and get into the mindset that if I moved quickly, I am not going to injure myself. That is the challenge that someone who is coming back from injury has; to tell your mind that you are completely fit,” he said.