Being a student of psychology has given Pratika Rawal some insight into how a human mind works and her gut feel told her that Shafali Verma, who came in as her replacement in the World Cup knock-outs, would do something special in the final.
Her intuition was right about Shafali even though it was all down to a cruel twist of fate that prevented Rawal from playing the two biggest games of her career because of an injured ankle and knee.
“Before the final, Shafali came up to me and said, ‘I’m really sorry you can’t play,’ and I told her it’s fine, these things happen. I had a feeling she would do something special that day,” Rawal said.
Rawal had scored 308 runs was fourth in list of run-scorers. The setback due to injury at most crucial juncture could have been mentally crushing but for someone who has completed her Bachelors’ degree in psychology, it did become easier to process what was going through her mind.
“I should not say I am a psychologist yet because I haven’t completed my Masters’ degree,” she smiled. “But as someone who has studied psychology, it really helped me to understand human emotions better — including my own. The first thing is to accept what’s happened. You can’t undo it. Once I accepted the injury, I focused only on what I could control — recovery, sleep, nutrition, and supporting the team.”
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