This and several other nuggets about top Indian cricketers such as Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman find a mention in a new book - "Think Like a Champion" - written by Rudi Webster, a former West Indian team manager who worked with the Indian team as a psychologist in 2006-07.

Buoyed by his good all-round shows in the current domestic cricket season, Laxmi Ratan Shukla is now looking forward to interacting with Kolkata Kight Riders' new sports psychologist Rudi Webster to further improve his performance in the upcoming Indian Premier League.

Newly-appointed mental skills coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, Dr Rudi Webster, on his first day in charge, stressed on the importance of playing as a team.

Seventy-two-year-old sports psychologist Dr Rudi Webster, who worked with World Cup winning West Indies captain Clive Lloyd in the 1970's, would help Kolkata Knight Riders in the upcoming IPL season 5 beginning on April 4.

Cricket's best known psychologist Rudi Webster has a message for Mahendra Singh Dhoni's seemingly destroyed Indian team: "Failure is an essential part of success. In fact, failure is the father of success."