Surya Kumar Yadav’s tale of triumph

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He was in the India squad for the 2024 T20 World Cup, but there was a time when his career wasn’t progressing. In this old chat, Surya Kumar Yadav recalls the tough times.  :

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00:00He looked at me straightly and said,

00:02you will play today.

00:03I said, okay, why are you scaring me?

00:06Calm down. Come to the pool.

00:07He said, come to the pool.

00:09Not just you, me, all your fans, everybody was saying,

00:12boss, give him the India cap.

00:15Give him the India cap. What are you doing?

00:17I mean, now he is giving it.

00:18It's right that he has gone ahead. Give it.

00:21Because I can imagine you'd be a little disappointed, right?

00:24Because all the runs are coming.

00:27All the shots are being taken.

00:28All the people are saying that it should happen.

00:30Still, you haven't got it yet.

00:32When the IPL started and when it was going on,

00:35then a tour came.

00:37Two or three spots were announced.

00:39And I was not there.

00:40I mean, I was hearing it from the rest of the people.

00:43People kept talking on the side,

00:44that you will be there, you will be there.

00:46And if I didn't come, then you're thinking,

00:49how did it happen?

00:50It was going well for the last two years.

00:53It feels like, what should I do now?

00:55So, he also asked me that he is disappointed.

01:00I said, what should I say now?

01:02You can understand it by looking at it.

01:04You must be feeling it too.

01:06Then the match came.

01:07At the time of the match, Zaheer Khan and Mahela Jaiwardhan

01:12explained it to me very well.

01:13I said, I think this is the perfect opportunity for you.

01:15Here, show everyone what you have got.

01:18Yeah.

01:19I said, okay.

01:21But still, I was thinking in my mind that

01:24you keep thinking about the human tendency,

01:26how to do it, how to do it.

01:27But it was good that the fielding came first.

01:30So, gradually, the rush of blood has reduced.

01:33Adrenaline was very easy.

01:35I wasn't thinking too much.

01:36Everything was going on its own, in motion, as it should be.

01:39The target came, the situation came.

01:42I said, boss, this is the time.

01:44If I run here, then everything will fall in place.

01:49It happened as it was.

01:50And then, we won the match and everything was like,

01:53we turned around and sat on the dressing room side.

01:56The family members were sitting upstairs.

01:58We looked at them and said, boss, I am here.

02:01Don't worry.

02:02Nice.

02:03It was very instinctive.

02:05I didn't think that I will win or do this or that.

02:08We turned around and looked at the dressing room side.

02:10I didn't think too much.

02:13Whatever came to my mind at that time.

02:14The last breath I took after the match,

02:17that was proper satisfaction.

02:20So, then, after such a long wait,

02:21when you got the India's Cup, when the name was announced,

02:24can you describe what the feeling was at that time?

02:28Actually, I closed the door and sat alone in the room

02:31for 5-10 minutes.

02:32I pinched myself.

02:34I even gave myself a slap.

02:36I said, is this really real?

02:39Then, I called everyone at home.

02:41I mean, I called everyone at once.

02:42Mom, dad, sister and wife.

02:44To talk.

02:46So, obviously, they were crying.

02:48So, I said, okay, it's an emotional moment.

02:50Okay, but try to sing a little bit.

02:53Yes, but that 5-10 minute moment,

02:57after closing my eyes, I started remembering everything.

02:59What I did in the last 4-5 years.

03:03I mean, the places where I had to show my discipline.

03:06I started remembering all those places.

03:08And when you got the cap, who gave it to you?

03:11Actually, Ravi sir gave me the cap.

03:13He called me first.

03:14He told me in the afternoon.

03:16He called me in the afternoon and sat by the poolside.

03:19When he called me, I started feeling that today is a special day.

03:22Yes.

03:23Come down. Come to the pool.

03:24Come to the pool.

03:25He called me and I said, okay, sir.

03:27So, when I went down, I looked straight at him.

03:31You will play today.

03:33I said, okay, sir. Why are you scaring me?

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