Suryakumar Yadav on T20 Batting, Captaincy & India in the World Cup

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Welcome to another episode of Express Conversations, a podcast where
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eminent voices from the world of politics, governance, sports, business
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and arts talk to us about their life, work and
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issues that really matter. In this episode, we will hear
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from Indian cricketer Suri Kumara Yadav. Our guest is in
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conversation with Anankuinka and the Waynder Pande of the Indian Express.
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In this episode, Surya talks about his journey as a
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trail blazing batter to leading India to a recent Asia
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Cup victory. He opens up about his philosophy, mindset, his
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relationship with his family and more.
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Very very warm welcome to Express Ada. It's the first
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time at this venue and after a long time, a
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conversation with somebody from cricket, but somebody who actually loves
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the pressure. Because he walked up on stage and said
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pressure on a.
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Chair concerts That was fun to watch it.
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You love the pressure sa from off field on field
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both ways.
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Absolutely.
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I mean see we are we as sportsmen always are
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surrounded with a lot of responsibilities and little bit of
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pressure also. So that's why when I walked on the stage,
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I asked, which is the seat which has more pressure.
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Okay, I think you know the place to start is
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the one is the one comment, question message statement that
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I've gotten continuously since I have been talking about Ada,
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with with Sky, with Souria. It is about that catch
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now after the puck, the yogi is talking about the
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same catch, the same catch.
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But but somehow it doesn't get old.
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I mean everything, you know that that's one you know
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in terms of modern cricket, you know the recent times,
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that is that one moment that people are going to remember.
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That actually it was written game yeah, Palta, but actually
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game started changing when two three of our bowlers bowled
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from sixteen to I think nineteen oers. Then we got
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an opportunity for six ball sixteen A and then catch
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the opportunity Bana. But all those bowlers who bowld during
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that time from sixteen to nineteen, so as a game changer,
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then I think I got an opportunity.
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I was standing at long off.
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Throughout the throughout the moment, throughout the final, I was
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thinking as a concert moment where because I got out
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early in the final, Sala, it's only fielding which is
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left right now, if if that comes, I get an
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opportunity to do something different. Let's see last over opportunity
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and then I was really fortunate, uh to be standing
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at that position. I was actually going to long on
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and Veratba was going to feel that long off hundred percent.
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But like in getting an opportunity at that time, that moment,
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that occasion till now, that has been a greatest moment
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of my cricketing career. And I'm sure hopefully going forward
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we'll get more opportunities in on on a bigger occasions
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as well.
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But yeah, that was that was a great moment basically.
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Moment for you.
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B bowl sector t Milla that say.
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But but yeah, fielding aspect to the batsman just a teammate,
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so you get an opportunity to do something special field
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me as a fielder, we prepare a lot during practice sessions,
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so the type k catches manue throughout the tournament practice sessions.
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But a moment ya final.
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May so everything is on the line or opportunity Milaya,
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but opportunity I time to Milan is social push there
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please take us through that moment. But then pants the
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second moment, It's very difficult to describe. Am it just
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just happened?
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If you look at it I was standing at the
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long gontension.
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But but I could I am the only one who
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can do something. You have a ball, ND fake or
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I get an opportunity to do something special but one moment,
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and to to be there in that moment, I think
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I'm very grateful.
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I think the one piece that comes is is the
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either you that you still you still thought that the
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game was was still in in hand. I mean you
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could have still won the game, which a lot of
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people thought it was to you know, it was getting
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almost impossible. But that attitude is not just in that game.
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The attitude seems to be in your entire career. You
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always you know, your patience is something which kind of
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resonates with in your career. Would you agree absolutely?
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I mean see, I personally feel I when I made
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my debut for India, I was thirty thirty one years
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old and I kept playing the game. I made my
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first Class debut in twenty ten eleven and from then
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making my India debut in twenty twenty one. That was
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a really long time which which actually I kept working
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hard towards that goal when I started playing the sport.
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We always feel that yes, someday we will represent our country,
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try and do something really special whenever given an opportunity,
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So that that thing kept me driving. And then after
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twenty sixteen, twenty seven, twenty sixteen, when I got married,
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not twenty seventeen.
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You cut.
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Then I apart so wet. But then we started talking.
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I started having a conversation in a different way. Yes,
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we were cricket for ten years, twelve years, what what
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was something different we could do? Channelize our energy towards
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our goal that we could reach to that uh India, Jersey,
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India cap a little early. Then we started focusing even more,
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became more disciplined. From twenty seventeen eighteen when I came
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back to it, came back to m I in twenty eighteen,
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then I realized even more, got more opportunities to bat
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higher up the order. All these things happened during that
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period in those three years eighteen nineteen twenty that completely
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changed everything. And then finally twenty twenty one was the
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year when when when I made my entire debut, and
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then that was that was the feeling.
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So there, I mean, many don't know the Divisha, the
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role she played over the years.
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No one knows.
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For the one thing which she did was eliminating your
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old friends.
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The world can we go?
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So she channelized and she actually made you decide what
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go ahead and eliminated all those unwanted factors in your life.
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So what's the role of her.
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She's always been behind the scenes as anither public appearance.
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She doesn't like all that. But yeah, that was the
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best thing which happened to me. Is number best decision
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of my life. So she changed things completely.
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You saved your wife's name on your phone as best
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decision of my life.
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Correct, thank yous looking at a there's But yeah, I
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mean she's played a very very big role because we
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started talking about cricket. Uh when when we got married,
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she knew had played with a lot of players. I
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was playing domestic crickets. She was following that when we
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were dating at that time. Also cricket to Kilro, you're
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playing at a good level, you're playing first class, you're
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playing i PL franchise cricket.
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But what's next India killer? So then.
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Then timings cut Karna, late nights, weekends, Bun. You work
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hard Monday to Friday, Saturday Sunday, you take a complete break.
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You spend time with your family you spend time with
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me and then slowly, slowly is a playing takeoff for
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the cricket also started taking off. All all the things
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started following, falling in place or eventually everything happened properly.
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Usually people know that you don't have ego much, especially
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my wife or so what happened because and in the
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end you got married to you can talk.
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About actually story.
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I still remember I went to meet a friend, uh college,
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So I was sitting there with my friends or roya
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college or is there a friend of.
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So?
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Then introduce and then she was like cricket, so she
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was not into that much. And we started having conversations.
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We started taking interest in each other story and then
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that beautiful love story started taking a lovely turn.
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You you mentioned that you give her a lot of
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credit for all the changes in your life. That uh
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sodaven has found a very nice, interesting old photograph of yours.
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Can we have a look at that photo by men
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ap guy? Yeah?
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And can you tell tell you which the hair it's
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green or.
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Shadi time guy photo? But so you look like this
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when she rejected when the college man, she didn't give
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you much attention.
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You were looking like this a Chuck, but both back.
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Touria was about to get banned from association because somebody
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had betrayed him. His teammate had recorded a call and
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gave it to and then selectors also decided not to
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him from Trophy because of his hair. He was told
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to a b and destiny decided that he became India captain.
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Going ahead, But.
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So you know that I think this was the guy
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ten years eight, nine years ago and then here you know. So,
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so in this journey again, there's a lot of patience,
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has been a lot of commitment to the spot. There's
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been a lot of changes that you have made to
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your personal life.
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But you have been.
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Quite It sounds like equantums through it all. You have
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not let success get to you. You've not let failure
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get to you. There's one thing to ethic, you know,
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you're always kind of having a very h equantomity through
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it all of it. Just walk us through how how
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did you get there? I mean you always like this,
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like through school also you did badly an exam you
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did you were happy, you did well?
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You were happy? Was it always like that or something new?
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See from uh from a younger age.
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I was actually blessed to have a lovely family and
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few few of the few of the good friends which
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still are in contact with me. There are three four
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people who always kept me grounded, always kept me humble.
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Whenever I came back from any tour, any first class game,
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or any any IPL game, they were always like hearty are.
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Or the same thing.
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If I was not doing well, also they were the same,
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so I figured that who are the real people around me?
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And then family also played a very big role.
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Uh then even even Davisha, whenever I go back home
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after scoring a lot of runs or even not scoring
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any runs, she's always the same. So I'm treated the
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same irrespective of what happens on the ground. She says
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the same thing whenever I whenever I'm about to enter
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the room in a hotel room or a house, she's
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like bar shortcaw, bar shortcaw. So whenever we get enter
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enter the house, it's like there's no conversation about cricket anymore.
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It's all family, what we want to do. So that's how.
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So it's everything very normal at home, wonderful. So that's
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kept that has always kept me very very very.
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Grounded all the time. But that's not the trend. No,
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would you agree that's not the trend.
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I mean I feel like now, whatever the field is,
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whether it's sports, whether it is entertainment, whether it's business,
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or whatever field is, I feel there is a lot
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of there's a lot of the tendency to kind of
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display success.
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I mean the people who you know, have gotten, who
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have made a lot of money, you made a lot.
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Of fame, they are quite unrecognizable, and they're very proud
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of the fact that they're unrecognizable from when they weren't
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as famous, as successful, or as wealthy as whatever.
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Do you see that as a culture change happening.
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I mean, see, I don't know what is happening in
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others life when they go back home, how are they treated,
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et cetera. But that's what I've seen.
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With me.
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I've been following this trend, and I've been very relaxed,
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very happy with what is happening, because there was a
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time when when everything was going really well and also
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when some sometimes things are not going your way. So
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that time we sat, we spoke a lot, and that's
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the time when when my wife said, I think you
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have to be a little relaxed. You can't be on
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top of the moon when you're doing well. When you're
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not doing well, you can't be like hiding in the room.
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You don't want to meet anyone, try and by lens
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out things. This is just part of your life. Don't
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think that it is your life. So that's when I realized,
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I play this sport because I love it. I love it,
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I enjoy playing it. But at the same time, you
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can't play till you're sixty, you can't play till you're seventy.
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You will play for seven years, ten years, fifteen years,
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twenty years. Few people play for twenty five years legends.
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But then you have to realize that at some point
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it is just part of your life. It is not
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your whole life. So that that's what I've realized, and
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that's how I take it when I move on.
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But you don't get pressure from your agents or some
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of your managers saying we want you more photographed on Instagram,
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we want you walking over of a fancy car. We
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want you getting photographed with family or with kids playing
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cricket on the street.
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Nine what's up?
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Though?
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Secondary woes up?
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That thing is ab Last pichinjan the latest Asha Cup,
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Johan Seppell, like two three weeks before that, I deleted everything,
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uh from from my phone, all the apps only WhatsApp
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and normal call is available. Rest everything is being taken
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care by managers, my team, and they're doing a wonderful
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job as well. So it's keeping me very relaxed though
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all the decision making which are going really well to
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shoot on the ground, it's it's it's not been influenced
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by anyone, so so it's keeping me very relaxed.
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I've been very calm and taking good decisions.
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So Yah wasn't there to mind because cricket is not
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easy sport to have. In fact, any sports, you can't
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choose that you will become a cricketer one day or
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you will play for India one day. Do you ever
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had a plan be in place, because like we've spoken
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to Herbergen and Boomrah, they have said in past that
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if what if, if it doesn't doesn't know would have
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worked out? I would have driving a car or truck
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in Canada. Do you ever thought came across in your mind?
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Uh, Mamayani. But I always felt that the alternate career
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can be a good businessman.
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You can marry Papa a solid shelter business may it's
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my business, Cooper. So they they felt really good.
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So I like reading about everything, all these things if
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if I'm not playing cricket, so definitely.
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So but business definitely.
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Pressure the school badminton or Maike pressure scientists. We are pressure.
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Like the pressure.
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Ten twelve engineering, Mira Beta engineers. But but your lineman
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now Korea thrown on a book, books up, Nicole Killer,
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take a kilo.
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Those al charts.
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Alan is very serious about it's the support. I'm a
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family background sport. It's all academics, log but difficult but
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fast bull badminton. But I enjoyed playing the sport more
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both especially depend.
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Or kidn Kidner. Come ask you you mean simple germe
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b a simple A life of B the mom.
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Same Facebook in tim selection to sympathically, sympathy clearly to
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what was you became suddenly mentor for so many people
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back then.
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Maybe I can tell them the truth? Do do you option? Though?
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I choose truth because mirror is always a better option.
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He's angry with you, but at the end of third day,
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four day, he'll feel what he told me that day
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was actually truth. So everyone whoever asks me anything or
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who's facing anything like that. I tell them clearly, there's
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a door. Whatever is in your control, try and do that.
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Just leave it to God.
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Everything will fall in place.
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Advice.
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Yeah, but Mara, what I feel is mirror, mirror, better journey.
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But realize you mentioned in my research, I saw that
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you were doing up rose to you seem to have
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got some of that.
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Is there any learning from Hanuman that you have applied
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in the field. Yeah, because it's a quantomity I get
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from I'm I'm getting that that energy. You know, he
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when Hanuman was burning Lanka, when he was you know,
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getting the sort of juddy booty from Dunkard was he
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had the same expression. He was never angry or sad, right,
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So that that's the kind of sense I get from
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you when you talk about.
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It, Jiro. Yeah, I'm not doing all of that, but
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but I love to hear it.
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Every morning after after I've taken shower for ten minutes,
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fifteen minutes, I want to be with myself, uh and
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and see how my day is planned. It calms me down.
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And if I am in a rush, I put it
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in my car when I'm going somewhere. It keeps me
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very relaxed or Mammi mari amsha. She's very religious. Now
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my wife is also very religious. Yeah, Jabi Hanuman Chali sasunto.
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Yeah theaki what you are capable of doing? So on
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game days, on non game days anyway, if I'm going somewhere,
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so I keep listening to it, I feel relaxed.
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What can I do on the ground? What am I
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capable of doing? So? Like that It's become a routine now, Yeah, but.
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On the ground on the field or uh actually, b up,
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I think this is this is the right thing to do?
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Or thus massa by both but probably did sure life everything,
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But so does it keep the ego at bay?
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Because I feel the the one thing interesting right now
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Indian cricket is that one day you are playing under
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somebody else's captaincy, when the next day you're playing as
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captain or somebody you know, the guy who was your
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mentor you're now captaining him. It keeps kind of you know,
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I don't think I've seen this before in any cricket
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in a long time.
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So how does that work? How does the dynamic work? See?
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I think irrespective in what position you are at the
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end of the day, your job is to do something
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really special what you are capable of doing for the team.
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If you've done that, you're playing under someone else, or
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you are a leader, it doesn't matter. It's it's just
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an added responsibility or bracket Malik. See, that's the only
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thing which I feel is an added responsibility.
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Rest.
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I feel, whatever you are, you want to do on
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the ground, your job is to score runs. If you
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go and do that, your both safe answer and if
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you're maybe they safe answer.
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That's what I feel.
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I have always felt that when I've played for any
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any team like Bombay in first class cricket or franchise cricket,
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for m I or KKR, or for Indian team.
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So that's how I have worked always, and that's how
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I think.
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When you were when the Asha Cup happened and you
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know all the incredible, incredible series that it was the
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decision that you made at the end of the day.
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That was also something I was spoken about a lot
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when the you know, not shaking hands. Where did that
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inspiration come from?
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That's not an inspiration or something. See, that's that's one
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stand which we took during that game on on the fourteenth. Yeah,
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but David Mannesota I think so that's the stand which
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we took on that day collectively, collectively in the dressing room,
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we reached on the ground.
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There was a lot of time before the game.
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We reached early also we spoke spoke about it in
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the dressing room and then we took it after the game.
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Ground pay or time paid to take that stand at
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that moment. But yeah, that's the standard took at that time,
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and there's no harm in taking a stand for your country.
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Did you did you expect the response that you got
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response from where the audiences, from your fans.
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I mean, I'm sure everyone was happy with Suna. But
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then later on after that happy birthday, is Jada.
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No love?
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Tell us about the about Mumbai Indians and that place
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you know there seem to be like what three captains
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in that in that franchise? What is even more even
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more so, what is.
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It about that franchise that you know?
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I mean, so many of the players there and they
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can help me with the with if I make any
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mistakes in facts, but a lot of those players they're
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easily qualified to be a captain of any other franchise.
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Sort of everybody's comfortable and happy, So what is it
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about that franchise that kind of holds you all in.
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See, we we just don't say it always that it's
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a family. We call it one family because we feel
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like we feel like that when we enter enter the
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dressing room, we enter that hotel, we enter any practice
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session when we go there, we feel like that.
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That's why that's why we call it a one family.
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And if you as as you rightly said, all the
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players are capable of leading any other franchise or.
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Any team in the world. But then there's this there's
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an X factor over there.
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There's some feeling bet field sector, team, qui field sucto,
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which which you feel over there, which makes you ready
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for bigger occasions, which helps you when when things are
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not going your way.
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So everything adds up. And that's that's one. That's an
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X factor. Which where does that come from? That it's
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not then other teams? Where does what come from?
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Where does that family feeling come from? In Mumbai Indians?
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If it's not then other teams, I mean, is it
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not an other franchises?
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First time? May ask you that is it?
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Is that why why everyone wants to play for I
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despite so many options available. If you look at the
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side you have, I said, k.
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I think there there are there are two ways to it.
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See if you say, if you see from cricketing point
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of view, on the ground, with so many best people
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around you get to learn so many things. Am I
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prepares and makes players to do really well on big
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occasions when the pressure is high, when the occasion is big,
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like for example, any you playing for m I is
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also a very big thing. But for example, latest example
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is still a Quarma. The way he batted in the
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Asia Cup. I think that was fantastic.
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So he is.
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He's a perfect perfect product of am I. He came
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in I when he was eighteen nineteen. Now he's twenty one,
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twenty two. He's still got a lot of things to learn.
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But at the same time it's like this is the
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cricketing aspect I'm talking about. And then there's a feeling
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when you're in the in the hotel, off the field,
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interactions with the players, the way they make them comfortable,
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all these things matter to me a lot. What I
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feel is what you do off the field, that's the
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best place to understand any player. You will get to
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know everyone what they are capable of doing when they
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go on the field. So these these these are the
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two three things which which work in parallel, and you
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see a proper product when a player plays for her mind.
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That's why everyone wants to play for her mind.
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Am I made you work, work behind the scene a
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lot to India prospect because you were there in KKR before,
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but you were still playing for India, not in India
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senior team rekaining. So how it changed, am I? What
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extra they did? What festivals that they provided you keys
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to India?
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I think they provided with all the best things they
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had came back to am I I got to bat
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higher up the order open first year May, then second
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I batted at three four and then the position got
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fixed t in Charba batting kernela. Then I stopped started
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talking to all the coaches. I think, yeah, expect to
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become CERTI batting mape. So what's what could sign awod
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rassing roommate or seek they seek? Then slowly, slowly I
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started climbing the ladder. Practice facilities provide kerna bombomb, So
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I want to practice a lot of training facilities sub
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providea o subchie because you see here a player Kidna
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Chuker India coach Chucker. But the ages, so you asked,
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dkre up twenty twenty one S twenty twenty five is
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product of twenty eighteen, nineteen and twenty of m I in.
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India where players are being pushed and you know, given
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given a liverage to be played at the age of
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twenty twenty three, twenty four is twenty six. Then you
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are thirty five now post thirty do you think there
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is a more of scrutiny because people judge through your
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age like they will be just will soon be forty now?
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So is it? How do you think this thing?
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Because do you think age matters or how is only
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form should be considered going ahead?
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Age is just the number, run Banaro. If you're doing
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all the things, what you want, what your team wants UH,
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then it's it's just a number. A recently at James Anderson,
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he's forty five forty six right now and he's recently
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renewed his UH contract with with the Lancashire team.
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So I think age Marrile is if number.
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If you're doing really well, performing how team wants you
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to team wants you to play, then.
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It's in our hands if you look at it.
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Schumann Gilgaldi have been been appointed captain in two format
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or b C your selecting selection committee. Additional Lilaki he
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will be the face going ahead, so somewhere down the
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line because does fear there's such kind of fear factors
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worked for you.
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Uh, but it's it's a sort of motivation, mil t.
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You are motivated to do even better. Is amazing off
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the field. On the field, so I know what kind
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of player is, what kind of human he is? So
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or motivate to do well first ball, first time, so
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many actually both.
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I believe.
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If I'm working really hard on myself, I am following
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everything which has to be followed, working really hard. But
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then I'm honest to myself, then rest everything will be
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taken care of. But I'm really happy for him formata captain.
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But it's he's well.
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God tunings can can talk about more about him. Keep
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you don't need words to express what is going in
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the mind on the field.
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Relation is like an elder or younger brother. Franchise cricket
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and uh both could see him and Salome or a
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Bibi Pura. Life has a circle. He's coach of Indian
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cricket team T twenty side.
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Also or maybe a k B.
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For example, a squad discussion, playing leven discussion, he picks
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his leven, I picked my eleven or changed literally nineteen percent.
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It is the same or around maybe for example, if
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I want to make a decision, a lot of things
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are going in my mind, so as a turn cirket
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dug out helping hand, you thinks you see things a
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little differently underment.
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And then I don't even think and if I do it,
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it works.
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So that is the trust which we have between both
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of both of us and Saute. It's going really well
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and may it continue?
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Do you miss him like that?
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He's not in your i PL family now, not in
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my I We talk regularly, but you said a family
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I was trying to get at when I was pushing
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you on that pieces. You know, I find that in
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in in i p L each franchise the culture is
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very different. In fact, the culture in i PL franchises
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look more different than than the.
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National Cricket Team franchise.
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The National Cricket team cultures look you know, I mean
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if you look at you know LSG, you know it's.
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A completely different.
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And just as a spectator, I don't know obviously inside
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but as a spectator you can see that there is
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a different kind of scrutiny and a different kind of
535
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pressure that kind of comes from the inside of that
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team compared to m I or CSK. Is a very
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different poll game altogether KKR, as you've already seen. So
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so I'm trying to just kind of understand where do
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you think who's responsible for creating this family environment? Does
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that environment one hundred percent work? Does it give you
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to the results? Two questions from I think the results
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and achievements. If you see of m I, that means
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they've done something really well in the last ninety eighteen years,
544
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I feel of IPL. So that's one thing which is
545
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completely different. Yeah, there are different different franchise they follow
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different different culture. I think a lot a lot of
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things depends on how the owners, coaches and the ca aptams,
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how they want the team to run, how they want
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other players to feel when they come in their franchise.
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So as soon as we go in this franchise, like
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for example, am I, you go in there, you feel comfortable.
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At the same time, they push your limits. They want
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you to do the best or for the team, and
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they want you to be a perfect team man. That's
555
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how they they make cricketers as well. So that's a
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completely different culture which we have here in am I
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I don't know compared to about the other teams I've
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played for KKR. Yes, there, the culture was completely different.
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Here it is completely different. So it's very difficult to
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differentiate between between the two franchises.
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But yeah, the culture here is very homely.
562
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You feel comfortable, and then if you're comfortable, very relaxed
563
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and you're happy all the time, then the decision making.
564
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Will always be good.
565
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.679
Tell me about the format, you know, the ODI format
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and the Test format. What is the future of Test
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cricket according to you, I mean it's going to They
568
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seem to be like six trees that are really invested
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in Test crickets anymore.
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Yeah, I feel the recent Test series which we saw
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India versus England and also a lot of a lot
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of Test series which are which are going on right now.
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The games are going till till the fifth day, last session.
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But okay, what happened Western exact opposite. The Western d
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series was the exact opposite. The days weren't even because
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we played well. Because we played well, players seem to
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enjoy test cricket, but the audiences are not.
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I don't think following audience are sit watching on TV
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and enjoying it. Now yeah, okay, but they are enjoying it.
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I think if after any test series, after any test game,
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if you see a lot of people tweeting about it,
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talking about it is the best format. I feel if
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you think testing is safe and here to stay, it
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is here to stay. I feel it's a it's a
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it's the best format of of cricket. Now, how do
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we get more countries involved in the game of cricket
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in the only test cricket or game of cricket cricket overall.
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But there are a lot of countries taking part in
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in cricket right now. I heard Italy just qualified for
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for the T twenty World Cup, so the a lot
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of countries are coming up. We played in Asia Cup
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also we played against oman Ue. I think there are
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there are a lot of countries who are actually coming
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up slowly with the with a good guidance, I think
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they can they can really play some good cricket.
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Olympics. Help Olympics, I think it will definitely help.
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Uh, it's it's actually a good addition, uh to to
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such a such a lovely, lovely thing, and I feel
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it will definitely.
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Help Sria the whole with the ipal coming game total
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dominant Sui indiaga all over the world Updake plays post
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i p especially so much of money going in from
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a is a commentator, a player which on camera just
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a pellaggression. Have you have you even felt that.
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Love this is foreign player or current X current the
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whole love.
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When you when India would go to visit Australia and
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play in Australia, the kind of welcome that Australia.
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Would give in from both the teams you're talking about,
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you know.
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Compared to now now like Indian players, cause there's a
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red carpet, you know, there's almost a kind of a
613
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hero worship happening of Indian play, which wasn't the case earlier.
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Earlier you would always get a lot of aggression from
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there from your host countries generally.
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No, actually it's it's it's still there.
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I feel I'm in Australia the pad T twenty if
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it's still there or no, because we're going there after
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a long time for T twenty series. But I feel
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it's still there a few teams that we recently went to.
621
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We went to South Africa. So after that T twenty
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World Cup twenty twenty four, we went to A twenty
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for a T twenty series in South Africa for four
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T twenties or players. Sure though crowd may say yes,
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uh aggressive the low so it was completely different or
626
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even with South African players when we playing a game
627
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of the field, the friendship is definitely there.
628
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But on the field, I think it was completely that
629
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aggression was the batsman's man. So aggression Thai come to Milt.
630
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It's a good thing. But then I don't think that
631
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it's become friendly, definitely not.
632
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So what is your style of captain expressive expression? What's
633
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your kind of captain c How do you deal with.
634
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See I am very relaxed on the on the ground
635
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pressure may fielding.
636
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I try and smile, relax Bolaro opportunity there because I
637
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see there are a lot of things going in Boler's mind.
638
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Also some preparation, like for example, it's a team environment,
639
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so thought process of that is very important to listen
640
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to everyone subloc table. Everyone brings very different different things.
641
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Table below. It's very important to listen to them, and
642
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then how you want them to go forward? Culture up, introduce.
643
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I want everyone to be the same. What what their
644
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identity is, Joe, the States say, franchise cricket, do the
645
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same thing. What has given you identity? Don't don't change that.
646
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But at the same time, see what your team wants
647
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from you and and do the same things. I like
648
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to be very relaxed, Joe. Respect that. There's nothing better
649
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:46.880
than that. Okay, we play a quick rapid fire, rapid fire,
650
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so you have to be pressure fire, pressure fire you
651
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and you perform under pressure. First question is who is
652
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more influential today the coach.
653
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Of the captain, but influential where team of family?
654
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But now whatever to make us to get an outcome.
655
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I don't want to say on field, off field, and.
656
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:11.719
Yeah, but I think both of them can be fifty
657
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:15.880
to fifty to safe an answer. But we both we both.
658
00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:18.719
Talk before any tournament if you want to talk, if
659
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you want to talk something and a hurdle also, so
660
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we both talk together and then take things forward.
661
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:24.440
Okay, all right.
662
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:33.639
Your favorite spot to play after cricket, after cricket, pickleball, pickleball.
663
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.679
You're also bitten by the pickleball okay. Your favorite spot
664
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to watch after cricket? Ah, watch after cricket. Uh, a
665
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little bit of cricket and uh maybe football?
666
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.679
Okay yeah. How many chewing gums do you go through
667
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a day? Go through a day? I only.
668
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:01.000
Chew gum when I'm batting, only while batting, okay, not
669
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at the time.
670
00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:02.440
How much do you carry?
671
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Oh?
672
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:06.320
Actually there's a caffeine gum. It has a little bit
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of caffeine in that, so before going into bat I
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consume it.
675
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:10.920
Okay.
676
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You prefer watching cricket with Hindi commentary or English commentary?
677
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:23.960
English? You have to choose a language now, uh Hindy okay.
678
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.039
The last use of artificial intelligence and spot that has
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fascinated you remember I.
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Don't remember actually, but I would definitely like to okay, okay.
681
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The one most bizarre superstition you have seen a cricketer
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follow bizarre.
683
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Case?
684
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You me, what does paint the car?
685
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:50.719
You know that is not a superstition, that's off the field,
686
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.719
very crazy. At what is the story? What is the story?
687
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:54.559
My mother painted?
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Would painting all my cars and different different colors? That
689
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that's not a superst See the most craziest superstition which
690
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I've seen recently is our two format captain mister Schubman
691
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gill Uh. There there's always a color code of a pad,
692
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.480
which which BCCI gives you before any tournament. To use
693
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it with all the it has to look same as
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your trouser. He's been using it using a completely different
695
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color code pad a very light blue since twenty twenty
696
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two and or twenty three beginning, and he's been doing
697
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:29.760
really well with.
698
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Those colored pads. Pad the same color, same color, same
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color the pad at least.
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I don't know if he changes that pad, we'll have
701
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to check it all the velcro and everything, but that
702
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color is completely off. It's definitely not an India color pad.
703
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.000
So that that's what he's using from last two three years.
704
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:49.639
We'll see it now in ODI fix changed.
705
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.320
It, don't know. Okay. The most bizarre superstition that you
706
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.159
follow me, I mean, there's no superstition or something.
707
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If you can say a routine like putting a right
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00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:05.360
leg in the ground first, or when you come to
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the ground you have to have something to eat, like
710
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a nut, nuts or something like that, if you call
711
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it a superstition, then okay, that's a superstition.
712
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But it's a routine, okay, okay, wonderful that the one
713
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tattoo on your body that means the most to you.
714
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So oh my god.
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Okay, see, I'm in this world because of my mom
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and dad. So definitely moment dad, their name and their
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portrait on my body. Yeah, after that, I got married
718
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:40.440
later on, so second is my wife.
719
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First is wonderful? Okay, okay, wonderful. Yeah, tattoo the chess
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cut actually twenty thirteen fourteen round.
721
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Though I started started Socha and a bots our designs
722
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I had already kept in my mind, but then I
723
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thought he may start kissing Kara.
724
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Approval. The first tattoo was of my mom and dad,
725
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so that was the first.
726
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Okay, you have been given this incredible authority where you
727
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can tattoo one word on the following people.
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What word will you tattoo on the following people on
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00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:23.199
my body?
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No?
731
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No, I'm going to tell you.
732
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I'm going to name you a person and you have
733
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to and you and they have asked you to tattoo
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one word on them.
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So what will the word be? What word will you
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tattoo ont garden? Garden?
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You want to explain for the audience by you said, okay,
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we're ah kah good good Okay.
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Boom bra uh boomb braban tattoo mm hmm.
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Brother okay, Salama naga sollo Uh yeah, stop schue bungel
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sumnil mm hmmm ache word brother okay, actually but uh
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maybe an emoji of uh.
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Did you see smiley emoji? Do you think so much
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of every tattoo that you put on yourself? I think
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a lot?
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Okay, okay, does ipl need more teams of fewer teams?
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I think this is good? Okay, good than it's good.
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The one umpire decision that still bothers.
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You still bothers me? Which decision it actually doesn't bother me?
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It's okay, there's no yeah, okay.
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The one reason you think bowlers don't make it to
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captain CR cricket teams.
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Who says that bowlers captains? I think they are. They're
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bowlers are also very good captains.
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Yeah, but they don't make it. Generally you will see
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the bowlers struggle to become captains.
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I mean it just doesn't throughout the day if they're
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playing Test cricket to bowl fifteen twenty oers.
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Okay, superla er inside out, which is your favorite. Definitely
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your the one advice you have, the one advice, the
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one fitness myth, and the one fitness reality.
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You think people over the age of thirty should know people.
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I think you should know what what what you're eating
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thirty or twenty. I feel you after thirty. Also, if
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you if you eat, if you eat really well, I
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think it's the same. I don't think there's any any
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reality or a myth you should follow after twenty or
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after thirty.
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Okay, So one thing that Gotham Gambier has learned from
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you learn from me my camera.
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I don't think he's learned anything from me. I will
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have to ask this question to him. Definitely, Okay.
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One thing you learned from him, I think being being
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fearless on the ground all the time and listening to
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everyone on the field when when they are under pressure
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or they want to do something because he's done this
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when when he was all a captain.
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So I also do the same thing.
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The last time you disagreed with Gotham Computer's advice, okay, disagreed?
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Let me think about the shuck up? Did I disagree
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during I didn't whatever he said? I did everything.
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I didn't disagree because everything was going so well, Why
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should I disagree to say any ever? You you remember
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ever having a difference of opinion with him?
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Difference of opinions when he was a k care captain.
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I knew I could tell a lot of things to him,
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So maybe that time there must have been a difference
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of opinion, But not not now anymore.
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Playing for India's richest family or playing for India's richest
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movie star subside, I'll rather que up. We bought cricket
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killer cricket in may say who knows cricket better? Who
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knows cricket better? Definitely am I? Definitely am I safe
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fans because you're in the team. Or he plays himself,
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may have India's richest family. He plays cricket with us
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whenever he comes O talk about a cash. Yeah, he
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plays cricket. We talk about cricket a lot, and Sharon
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doesn't play at all.
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Be killed. Okay, the last question. It's twenty thirty five.
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Artificial intelligence has taken away every job in the country.
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You've got only two jobs to choose from. One is
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a politician and the other is a coach. Twenty thirty five.
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You have to be either a cricket coach or a politician.
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What do you think. I think you make a pretty
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good politician. I might C thirty five.
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Definitely, thank you so much you've been You've given us
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way more than ten seconds. Very iglorab good time, and
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thank you just for bringing some of us freshness here.
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I mean, it's it's so it's really nice to see.
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And you know, I feel people are so careful now,
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you know, we you know, we talk to people from
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all everybody who's in positions that you are, you know,
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they're just so careful. But your breath of fresh air.
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You're very candid, you're very transparent. More power to you,
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and thank you for being here.
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Thank you.
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