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Hardik Pandya On Pollard Getting Him Arrested, Financial Struggles & Brotherhood in Team | BwC S4E5 - YouTube
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These days youāve become very busyā¦
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I can tell youāve become really busy because
you only got half a haircut...
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...and then you had to go, right?
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- He (hair stylist) did one sideā¦
- Iāve done it myselfā¦ thatās whyā¦
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You must be like,
"Oh, shit man, I have some appointmentā¦ā
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I was like, āShikhar (Dhawan) do it pleaseā.
And Shikhar said, āYeah, Sureā.
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Now, Shikhar instead ofā¦
I had asked him to trim only a bit.
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But, he trimmed off an entire chunkā¦
I said, āNo worriesā¦ just remove the whole thingā.
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Thereās more where it came fromā¦
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I can carry it offā¦
I am pretty confident I can carry it off.
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If you are going to make āGabbarā (Shikhar) work,
heāll clear everything in his path ā¦
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The original Gabbar had chopped off arms,
this one chopped off my hair.
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Even if no one looks at the face,
they will at least look at the hair.
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The century you scored in Sri Lankaā¦
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...you were battingā¦
you were on 30- 40 or somethingā¦
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I think I just went to fix myself some
breakfast and coffeeā¦
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...by the time I got back,
you were batting on 90-oddā¦
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I wondered, āWhatās going on, man!
Is this a Test match or a T20?ā
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The morning (of that particular day)
starts from the previous nightā¦.
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I was not able to sleep till 3 am .
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My anxiety level was on a different levelā¦
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Because I still remember I got out (previously)
to the same bowler. I was furiousā¦
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...after getting out, I sat near the poolside
till 8:30-9pmā¦ after finishing the game by 6pm.
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I was just sitting thereā¦ I told a few other peopleā¦
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...as we chatted about the game, about the batting,
about how I got out.
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The only thing I said was that it wonāt happen againā¦
No chance!
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(Usually) when I get out, I donāt think about it muchā¦
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...but when I get out in a certain way,
I think a lot.
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So, the night before the hundred
I was not able to get sleepā¦
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...all I could think about was my battingā¦
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...I was in a fighting mode.
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So, before going in... All noticed ā¦
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I was not talking to anyoneā¦
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...I got padded up, ready to goā¦
everyone else was sitting aroundā¦
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I was very restless ā¦. jumping,
going back and forthā¦
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Within the span of 10 minutes, I asked at least 5-6 times
about when the play would start.
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As soon as the umpires stepped on to the field,
I charged in and was ready at the crease.
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Only then I was like,
āOkayā¦ I am hereā¦ I am calm nowā.
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I still remember everyone was on the fieldā¦
every fielder was on the boundary.
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Like, all the 9 fielders.
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And I was like, āI have to connect it wellā¦
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ā¦I donāt care where you keep the fieldersā¦
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...you knowā¦ straightā¦ (on the) sideā¦ā
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- 'Coz irrespective, the ball would sail over their heads.
- Exactly, that is what I was aiming for.
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And I am like, āBro, I am going all guns blazingā.
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Do you remember the first day you went to the
Indian dressing room?
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Your debut?
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You know that child-like excitement that one has...
āSomeday, I'm going to play for Indiaā.
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Do you remember looking around?
ā¦ because it was Australiaā¦
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Yeahā¦ first time.
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The dressing rooms there are quite spectacularā¦
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Your first game was in which stadium?
Melbourne or Sydney?
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- Adelaide.
- Adelaide.
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I met everyoneā¦
I was hesitant to say hi to everyoneā¦
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So I just said a polite helloā¦
I was being a calm, nice kid.
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I wanted to impress everyoneā¦ so when I was bowling,
I was bowling with aggression.
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A few shots which Virat (Virat Kohli) playedā¦
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- This was in the nets?
- In the netsā¦ Shikhar and all as wellā¦
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And I was like, āWow man!
These guys play some incredible shotsā.
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- But, they just said you know, "Enjoy". I meanā¦
- Relax.
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It happens obviouslyā¦ when you're young...
- And I seeā¦
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...I gave 21 runs in my first international over
and I thought to myself that my career is gone.
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It was a nightmareā¦ that first over.
First time in my life, I would say I was blank.
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I didnāt know what to doā¦
Being how I am, I didnāt have any answers.
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Butā¦ Mahi bhai (MS Dhoni)
being a legend, you knowā¦
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He told me, āCome on, bowl another overā.
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And I get hit for a six on the first ball.
So, in 1.1 oversā¦ in 7 balls, I have conceded 28 runs.
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And I only gave away 37 runs eventuallyā¦
In the other two overs, I only gave away six-seven runsā¦
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...and I got two wickets.
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What did he say to you that time?
I meanā¦ see once you go for 21 runsā¦
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... and your captain gives you the ball againā¦
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Then there is no need to say anything moreā¦
thatās the confidence in itself.
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- Yeah, he didnāt say anythingā¦
- ā¦ itās okay, it happens.
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I still remember after that
he gave a press conference and in thatā¦
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...he said that he knew after the first over,
he (Hardik) would be a better bowler for sure.
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After getting Lynn out, I still remember
I got very animated and aggressiveā¦
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So, Mahi bhai came to me and told me...
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"This thing you are doing for the last timeā¦
because you will get bannedā¦
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...plus, the team will lose a player.
So, we donāt want thatā.
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I was like, āYeahā¦ I am sorryā.
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I might be the first person or first playerā¦
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...to get an ICC Code of Conduct (reprimand)
on his first international game.
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So, I guess I might be the first one.
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Donāt want thisā¦ but you also learnā¦
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I was like, āNoā¦ I donāt want to get finedā¦
Iāve worked hard for itā¦
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...cannot get fined and lose money
for the sake of a couple of expletivesā.
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Since childhood weāve been abusing for freeā¦
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...now it really pains you when you have to
pay out of your pocket for abusing.
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Now if I feel the need to abuse...
I'll do it off the field.
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I rememberā¦ last year on
MI (Mumbai Indians) TV I saw thisā¦
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Mrs. (Nita) Ambani said thatā¦ I think
with you and Jasprit (Bumrah), she was like...
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āWe were matching the match when
Hardik made his (international) debutā¦
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...and in his first over, he went for 21 runsā.
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And she said, āI was sitting there
and going like, āOh, my god!ā
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And there was a very sweet line
she said after thatā¦
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She said, ā...you know becauseā¦
Hardik is the age of my childrenā¦
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...so, for usā¦ for the familyā¦
he is like a childā.
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They treat us as ifā¦
MI is like our extended familyā¦
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...the heart is thereā¦ I have always wantedā¦
this was my favourite team...
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...and obviously the love which we get
in Mumbai is different...
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...and of course,
our owners are also really sweet.
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Who plays the pranks
in the Mumbai Indians dressing room?
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See, there a few people who are a tightly-knit groupā¦
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Krunal (Pandya) is there, Polly (Kieron Pollard) is thereā¦
like they are madā¦
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So, how we stay in the team hotelā¦
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Krunalās, Pollardās, and my room are adjacent to each otherā¦
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...and our doors always remain open.
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We just keep going in and out of each otherās roomsā¦
and itās like really crazy fun.
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He (Pollard) is a really good guy
and we really gel well with him.
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Even (when we to play) in West Indiesā¦
I was always hanging out with him.
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I called him a few days backā¦
he had a very bad CPL (Caribbean Premier League)ā¦
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So, I was like, āBro, first of all,
many congratulations on such a successful CPLā.
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He was like, āYeah yeah, why notā¦ why notā¦ā
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So, I was pulling his legā¦ you knowā¦ itās funny.
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He was like, āYeah yeah, why not why notā¦ā
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bro, you shouldnāt mess with a guy
who is like 7-feet tallā¦
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...but you can when he is
on the other side of the world.
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Hopefully, he would have forgotten about it
by the time he comes back to India.
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No, I can do itā¦ he knows that he canāt hit meā¦
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In West Indiesā¦ I was roaming around like
I was in India.
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He is like, "Why?" and I told him,
āYou are thereā¦ you wonāt let anything happen to meā¦ā
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I am a local.
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Yeahā¦ I am a localā¦
So, he actually pulled my legā¦
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...he called a policeman...
and the policeman was arresting meā¦
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He was Pollardās friend and they were like,
"Letās scare him (Hardik)".
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And I was being super calmā¦ like,
āYeah yeah yeahā¦ā
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Pollard was trying to hold the police guy,
and telling him, āYou stay awayā¦ you stay awayā.
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The funniest partā¦ how I got to knowā¦
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...I knew it was a prankā¦ but there was a
point it was getting very serious.
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But I was calmā¦ I was like what can happenā¦
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...if anything happens,
I will call the Indian team officialsā¦
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...nothing will happen to me,
I havenāt violated any lawsā¦
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So, the guy (policeman)
was pretending to call someoneā¦
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...but, I saw that he was holding the phone
upside downā¦
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I told Polly, āThe phone is upside downā¦
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...at least ask him to hold it right
And do the act properlyā
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Then he asked me how I remained calm throughoutā¦
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I told him, āSee Pollyā¦ nothing will happen to me
if you are around. I am in your cityā.
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After thatā¦ I met him everyday...
I met everyone at his placeā¦
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...or he used to keep going to other peopleās places,
I went with him everyday.
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Thatās why I call him
āa brother from another motherā.
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Just a little bigger brotherā¦
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- Very big brother.
- Huge brother.
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In the last season of the IPLā¦
you were a little more jumpy.
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In this season I saw youā¦
you were a little calmer.
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Because one part is playing on the field...
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But when youāre a public figure on India,
you have to play the game...
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This is more related to my public image...
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...because I'm very conscious of
what I do now nowadays.
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I've not tried intentionally but
sometimes I feel I've become calmer.
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I want to improve as a person more than
improve as a cricketer.
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I want to improve as a person because then
you think smart and make the right decisions.
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For example, now we have this rule
in the Indian team...
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I came up with it.
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While having dinner we keep our phones away.
I collect all the phones and keep it on the side.
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Until the bill isn't cleared...
nobody touches their phones.
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I don't want everyone to be constantly
looking at the phone overtime it beeps.
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I'm very proud of you.
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If somebody had told me that you had
made this rule, I wouldn't have believed it.
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I would've thought he likes all these things.
I'm very happy you've done it.
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When someone asks whoās your idol, I'm blank.
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I'm thinking, who do I look up to?
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Nowadays I'm really following
Mahi bhai (MS Dhoni) and Virat (Kohli).
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Because of the way they are and
not what they've achieved...
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...but the way they are after achievingā¦
I want to be like them.
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Being disciplined,
being sweet to people.
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I want to know and learn
how they've reached where they are.
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I observe them to try and understand how they are,
what they do and what it takes to be there.
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They are nice human beings
and still they are successful.
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You get to see them training,
you get to see them make runs...
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...but how they think and
what's in their hearts and minds.
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What you can't see on the outsideā¦.
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That's the kind of stuff you want to
learn from them.
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A hard-working cricketer who plays for India
will be training 20%.
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At the next level below, they are probably training at 19%.
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Itās not like thereās a drastic difference
of 10% in training between them.
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So it's not about the training...
it's about the mind...
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We all work as hard at training.
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But they are better because
their mind is stronger.
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It's on the right track.
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Another thing I really like and I think...
which you must have learnt from as well...
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...is Viratās attitude...
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...on the field... aggressive, focused,
sometimes angry.
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But off the field...
heās a completely different guy.
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That's how it should be.
I mean that's how you balance your life.
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That's our personality at the ground.
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Having said that... being aggressive,
or short tempered...
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When we play, we are into it,
On the ground, we are passionate...
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We are representing our country.
We have to do well.
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That's the thing which
keeps on getting us through.
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That attitude of,
"Let's do it, why won't it happen!"
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Everything is self made,
no one presents anything to you.
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I still remember when me & Krunal were young...
I was 17, he was 19.
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We told our father that
we don't want anyoneās sympathy.
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You won't say anything to anyone,
you won't say, "Pick my boy"ā¦
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āYou won't say anything.
Because me and Krunal wouldn't like it.
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Weāll play on our own merit
or we won't play at all.ā
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We didn't want anyone to say after a few years
that we are here because of them.
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There are people who have helped
and played a big role.
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Like my coach to whom I'm grateful.
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But otherwise you've gone out
and done it yourself.
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No one knows that weāve struggled
for 3 years for every penny
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Even saving Rs 5, Rs 10...
was a big trouble for us.
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I still remember in the IPLā¦
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Before that we won a championship
in the Ranji Trophy T20.
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- We got Rs 100,000... 70,000...
- Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy?
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Yeah, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.
We got Rs. 70,000 each.
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Me and Krunal said to ourselves that
at least weāll get by for a while.
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Because we were struggling for almost 3 years.
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For two years, we hadn't paid
the EMI on our car...
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Just because we were smart,
we managed to hide the car.
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We didn't want the car to go...
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So anything we earned in those 3 years
was supposed to save the car.
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Rather than having something
new for us or buying something.
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It was just... pay the EMIs on the car
and get some food on the table.
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Then, God was kind. In my first year, we won the IPL
and I got a cheque for Rs. 50 lakhs.
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And I was like āDamnā.
From there I was like...
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Got the car freed up from the bank
and bought a new car as well.
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Surprisinglyā¦ Just imagine, all of this happened
Within 3 months of the IPL.
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Three months earlier, we were struggling
and fighting for money...
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...and after three months
I had 50-60 lakhs in my pocket.
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It was all about saving at that time.
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50 lakhs... things changed from there...
I mean 7 months later what hasn't come from it.
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In our family, itās very important,
we have this bond where...
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...money doesn't come in between, no matter what.
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It's not like your money, my money.
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No, it's like we have this much money,
if it's 10 crores, then its 10 crores.
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Doesn't matter who has how much.
In total we have 10 crores at home.
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- Family account.
- Yeah, family account.
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My mother is in all the accounts.
She insists, "I'll be a partner in your account".
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Her name is on my fatherās account,
my brotherās and mine...
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- Mother is most important.
- It's all in her name.
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From having a car, a house to everything.
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She doesn't trust meā¦ I tell her,
āI don't want it in my name...
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... I don't want to be giving 50%
of my share to someone else in the future".
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"I don't want it in my name.
Sharing my 50% will hurtā¦.
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So it's better if you keep
everything in your name...
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...that way the 50% won't go anywhere else,
whatever happens".
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Whenever someone asks me whether
they should play cricket or study...
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...I always tell them to study.
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I took a big punt with my life when I chose cricket,
I donāt recommend it becauseā¦
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Cricket is very dangerous.
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And also the chances are few...
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There will only be 15-16 people in a country of a
billion people who will get a chance.
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So that's why... When I get this question...
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...I always say study.
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If you pass your 10th, you get a job
according to your education.
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I mean, your education does not go away.
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It stays with you.
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In cricket, you have to be at the top,
then only you can make it.
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I know to reach there it's not a piece of cakeā¦
itās difficult.
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It's not something which is handed to you.
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Only the luckiest get it.
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But to reach there...
you really have to be the best.
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Didn't your Mom & Dad ever say,
"No you should study..."
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Or did they just give up and say,
"He definitely will not study".
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They knew I wouldnāt be able to do it,
because I was bad.
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It was more of a situational decision
that I made...
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...rather than saying,
āI don't want to go to schoolā.
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I always had this thing in my mind that...
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...how can I succeed in life.
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We used to be really rich,
from a well to do family.
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And from having that, to struggling for every 10 rupees...
it was disappointing for me...
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...because I had money when I was small.
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I never thought that when I'm older
Iād have to struggle so much.
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Me & Krunal used to go to villages to play...
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...Krunal used to get Rs. 450,
and I used to get Rs. 300.
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Going in a local train with my kit
and coming back in a truck, sitting in the back.
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Or coming back in a local train
without having a ticket.
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It was difficult and I was like...
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You can either keep cribbing about it...
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...about why this is happening to me...
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...or you can work hard and see what happens.
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I got a surprise for you.
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