00:00You can't compare but the standard of IPL is very high and one of the toughest cricket matches you can watch in IPL.
00:06The reason for the competition in IPL is that if you combine 4 overseas players in a team, the balance is very good.
00:13That's why IPL matches are sometimes better than other international matches.
00:18The reason is that the composition of the team, the format they make, all the teams are equal sometimes.
00:24Sometimes the calls are so tight that it can be reversed.
00:27But I take it this way, sometimes you give such calls that if it wasn't for DRS, people would say it's wrong.
00:32So there's a positive side to it. DRS also backs the umpire. Both ways.
00:35Sometimes it's a back-to-back umpire's call.
00:38And after a chance, it goes to one side.
00:40So some players say, sir, look, you're going from one side.
00:43Although they say it as a joke.
00:44And I believe more in the humor part of it.
00:46And everyone knows that this technology is good.
00:49This will benefit the game.
00:50It's challenging, but when you do something, it comes into your system.
00:53And what you're saying doesn't come in.
00:5550,000-60,000 people shout, who's saying what, how will you know?
00:58And you have to see so many things in the game.
01:00You don't pay attention to all this.
01:02And you live in your ball-to-ball routine.
01:04And I know it's a very common question.
01:05Everyone asks.
01:06When I leave the house, my neighbors ask, look at India.
01:08It's not like that.
01:09But the professionals pay attention to their work.
01:12Because our own pride, our image, our performance is at stake.
01:15Some people used to umpire in my club.
01:17So they sent me to their place.
01:19I didn't even know what it was.
01:20And that's how it started.
01:22Then I started going to Thailand.
01:23I started getting air tickets and money.
01:25It was a big deal for me.
01:26And then I passed my exams.
01:27Ideally, my umpiring started with Dr. Rambabu Gupta.
01:31He was the D.P. of Rajdhani at that time.
01:33I came in touch with him.
01:34And there are a lot of people.
01:36There have been many good umpires in India.
01:38Venkat Raghavan.
01:39There are many more.
01:40I'm forgetting their names.
01:41I've always liked Shefford.
01:42Although I never met him.
01:44But whatever I saw in his image among the players.
01:46Whatever I saw and heard about him in the matches.
01:49I think he's one of the best umpire people I've seen.
01:53A match can be tough at any time.
01:54But there have been some matches in the past.
01:55Two years ago.
01:56There was an India-Sri Lanka T20 in Bombay.
01:58One kickball was very important.
01:59In the last over, they needed 5 or 6 runs.
02:01There was a one-day in India-New Zealand.
02:03In which they started doing 350 series.
02:05And I had to take a few calls.
02:07Which could have been wrong.
02:09But maybe my focus was right.
02:11It feels good to match like this.
02:12And a tight match is fun.
02:14If you match tight, the umpire's performance is good.
02:16I think there is a cricket committee.
02:18There are cricketers, umpires and administrators.
02:20They must have thought it through.
02:22Because this is also an issue.
02:24It is very difficult to handle it practically.
02:26How much sliver is being used.
02:28People were eating in between.
02:30That was also on the ball.
02:31It was very difficult.
02:32And according to hygiene, it was fine.
02:34There was peace.
02:35Just like the runner was removed.
02:36He was also removed.
02:37There is a little more peace in the game.
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