00:00First, waiting second, opening start, middle order, and in the last match, in the final overs, which we didn't need to power hit, that also happened.
00:12So, in a way, I would say, we have been pretty good the way 4 matches there.
00:18Chidashu, Shreyas Iyer has shown a lot of flexibility at No. 4. What is the significance of having him at No. 4?
00:27I think he always…
00:29I have betted at No. 4, 5, and after he came back again, he has been absolutely outstanding.
00:35So, I mean, if any plans, head coach and captain had, so Gautam and Rohit had, I don't know, but that was the betting number he was going to bet anyways.
00:46He has done really well.
00:48In a final, does it really matter, the wicket or anything? What is the real factor that should be looked into?
00:56I mean, see, any wicket we play on, we have to play well and perform. And so far, we have been doing that.
01:03So, wicket is same for both. So, that's not really…
01:07And I don't think the players we have and the experience we have, whether it is a league game, semi-final, final,
01:14obviously the knockout stage is everyone's little concern.
01:17I think we should look to play good cricket rather than thinking about what game we are playing.
01:23I think the way we have been playing, if we play, it should be very good anyway.
01:28So, their recovery, their strength, their rest, everything I think has been absolutely superb.
01:35The practice, obviously, practice sessions also, I think all the practice sessions have been very, very good.
01:43So, can't really complain. It has been superb.
01:47Dhanush, some of the other teams, some of the former players have said that India has got an advantage by playing all the matches on the same venue.
01:55Our captain and coach have said that this is not our home. So, what would you say about this?
02:03I mean, I don't understand what advantage we have got.
02:09And, I mean, there is no question of advantage.
02:14Now, where the venue is, it is there. The draw that happened, it happened before.
02:18After winning in India 4, if people feel that they have got an advantage, then I don't know what to say about it.
02:23End of the day, I think in a game, you have to play good cricket every day when you turn up.
02:30If you don't play well, you can't complain.
02:32And, if you play well, there is no point saying whether you have got an advantage or not.
02:36I don't really think.
02:38Because, we are practicing here, we are playing matches there.
02:42Practice, obviously, different wicket. We are playing matches a bit different.
02:46We all know that.
02:47So, only thing they may say is, play here.
02:50But, that is how the draw is.
02:52So, nothing else can happen in that.
02:54It is not that after coming here, they changed something and got an advantage.
02:58See, Subman, obviously, from 2019, when I started looking after the India team, he has played 4 series then before coming to India team.
03:06So, I know Subman pretty well.
03:08I think he is someone who is very balanced.
03:11I think he is someone who can adapt the situation well.
03:14He is someone who will play according to the team need.
03:17And, his game is such that he can be good with rotating strike, taking game deep.
03:24As well as, he is someone who can actually attack if it requires.
03:28And, I think with the balance approach he has, he has been brilliant.
03:32So, it is great to see what I have seen him in 2019.
03:37And, now I see him with Indian team.
03:39Obviously, he has been playing for India team.
03:41But, the way he is playing and taking responsibility is great to see.
03:46Indian team has defeated New Zealand in a group match.
03:52So, what will be the psychological advantage of that?
03:55That depends on how New Zealand team thinks.
03:58But, I think we should not think that.
04:00We should just try and turn up and play a good game of cricket.
04:03Because, there is no point in thinking about last match.
04:06We have to do next thing out of 9.
04:08We have to focus on that.
04:10So, India is probably going with the 4 spinners again with New Zealand.
04:14Because, last time around we did very well.
04:17So, will it be 4 spinners?
04:19And also, K.L Rahul, we see him in a different avatar, if you can say.
04:24For combination, I am not someone who can answer.
04:28So, that is not the question for me to answer.
04:31And, K.L Rahul, what are you asking about?
04:33K.L Rahul is seen in a different, you know, sort of a role.
04:37I mean, he is whacking the ball when we see him practicing.
04:43So, earlier, one question I said that everyone is doing their job at whatever number team requires them to.
04:50And, they are doing it superbly.
04:52So, K.L is someone who batted at that number.
04:56He obviously can rotate, we all know.
04:59And, obviously he can hit the ball as well when required, what we have seen last game.
05:03I mean, I think he always has done that.
05:05It is the situation comes and he executes it.
05:08So, I personally feel he is good enough to do whatever team requires to do.
05:13I think he has proven that.
05:15I don't know what advantage, I mean, the tournament draws like this from start.
05:20So, nothing has changed.
05:21So, what advantage after we are reaching the final, if people think.
05:25That is tough, man.
05:26That is the way game goes and we just play to the draw and that is it.
05:30There is no advantage, disadvantage.
05:32You have to play good cricket.
05:34In fact,
06:05So, can you tell us a little about the atmosphere and the pressure of the big game?
06:08I don't feel that the pressure of the big game was there two years ago in India.
06:13We have won the ICC event before and haven't won in between.
06:18Other teams have played well.
06:20But, that doesn't mean that we come under pressure.
06:24So, that is the first answer.
06:26Second, our senior players, obviously all the time, not only with young players,
06:32they are in between, in team meetings, everyone talks, they all talk.
06:37And that is something which is priceless.
06:42Because, if Rohit, Virat, Hardik, those guys are talking, Sami, Chaddu even.
06:52So, the 15-20 years of their experience, they are talking what the players who have been here for 2 years are listening.
06:59So, some things obviously you learn with experience.
07:02But, listening to the guys who have that experience and they are talking about their 20 years of learning,
07:08that is also a great environment.
07:10Our Indian team is very good with that.
07:12So, it is great for us too, for the support staff.
07:15Because, half of the things, maybe more than half of the things, the same people cover.
07:20So, we don't have to say anything.
07:22No, no, God has been very kind.
07:24I think they are very good players.
07:26Any coach, to be very honest, I should not even comment on what you ask.
07:31But, any coach can only do a little bit of input.
07:35You can't say that because of me, everything is wrong.
07:40They are so good.
07:42So, I don't think that anything special I have done.
07:47It is just the great players who got a good momentum.
07:50They are always good.
07:51We can, as a team, have a bad time.
07:54Australia was a tough series.
07:56And, to be honest, in those four test matches, we lost three.
08:00Those two matches were so close that the test in Melbourne could have been a draw.
08:04I was also following like you.
08:06And, yes, the last match could have gone anyway.
08:08So, we could have even won that series 2-1.
08:10After losing this, it looks like we lost.
08:12But, no, we have great players, great batters.
08:15And, according to me, whatever I can be a little bit helpful, that I try.
08:19But, that does not mean that my coming has made a difference.
08:23To be wherever, he is someone who can open, someone who can go four, five.
08:27And, someone who is doing what number six is doing.
08:30And, he adapts it well.
08:33And, he is very happy in that role he is performing.
08:36And, that obviously helps him also when he starts performing at that number.
08:41Because, it's a different situation he is going in.
08:44So, that's great for the team.
08:46But, from his approach, whatever I have spoken to him, he said,
08:49I will do whatever the team requires.
08:51And, I will do my best.
08:52And, God grace, he has been doing that.
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