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Rachin, on the other hand, has to find the right balance in the format he chooses. “I suppose the more you do it, the more lessons you have. Ultimately, it is an opportunity to try and get an understanding of how you want to do it. And before you get exposed to it [at international level], you are probably playing domestic cricket, which generally is played in windows – you have red-ball [competition] and then you might have your one-day competition, followed by your T20 competition. So there’s not a lot of quick crossover that really demands you to change your game and then go back to [the previous] format,” Williamson would say.

“I feel personally grateful that I was brought up in that red-ball era. It’s still there, but I mean the T20 format is so prominent now, where the volume that you play is so high. So the opportunity to bat long, but also the opportunity to really go through those different problem-solving elements in the game [is not there].You are playing a game for five days, it challenges you in every aspect, your ability to focus, to be patient, your temperament to adjust a plan… and you can get exposed in a big way in the red-ball game. So you are always trying to problem-solve. And the conditions change a lot more in red-ball cricket. So there’s these elements that you don’t necessarily get, and certainly not [in the same] volume, in the white-ball game,” he added.