Rachin Ravindra, a young all-rounder for New Zealand, has stated that he is able to pick up cricket effortlessly due to the fact that his father is passionate about the sport. Ravindra emerged as one of the most prominent players of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, which has recently came to a close. He finished as the fourth-highest run-getter with 578 runs in 10 matches, averaging 106.44 runs per game, and scoring three hundreds and two fifties.

Rachin stated in an interview with ESPNCricinfo that his father was a club cricket player and that the sport was always there in his home in some form or another. As a result, Rachin picked up the game naturally when he was a youngster after his father's exposure to it. In his memory, he recalls practicing with his parents with a ball made of plastic.

“Dad played club cricket, he watched a lot of cricket, played it on PlayStation as well. It was always on around the house all the time. Naturally I picked it up. Mum and Dad would always throw me plastic balls. I always wanted to bat or bowl. It accumulated to where I am today. They never forced me to play cricket at all. It happened naturally. I really enjoyed playing cricket with my mates. I enjoyed going to the nets every day, hitting and bowling balls. I guess that's how it happened,” Rachin said.

Rachin stated that "life and cricket have no guarantees" in response to the question of whether or not he will be able to secure a contract with the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the 2023 auction. At the moment, he is concentrating on the series against Bangladesh.

“Whether it is noise or what is being reported, I think what's important, what matters right now is what series you have in front of you. There's so much time to the IPL. There's no guarantee that I will get picked up [in the auction]. There are no guarantees in life and cricket. I am just focused on what's in front of me: the Bangladesh Test series. You stay in the present, you savour those moments. Every moment I get to play for New Zealand, I am very, very grateful,” he added.