Coaching stability, some harsh words: How India became world champions for 1st time

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Women's World Cup Final: India captain Harmanpreet Kaur credited the stability in the Indian team management behind the team's success in the World Cup. The skipper said that Amol Mazumdar's harsh words riled them up after they dropped form midway through the tournament.

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00:00First of all, I want you to be happy with me.

00:03We will be happy with you.

00:05We won't be happy with you.

00:08Please.

00:09Please.

00:10Please.

00:11And if you have any questions about me,

00:13I have a chance to win in a time.

00:14What do you think of me?

00:16Tell me about it.

00:18And when do you think we can win?

00:20I was thinking of the first ball.

00:25Because the way our team was playing in the last three games,

00:31there were a lot of things that changed us.

00:34Especially our self-belief.

00:36Because we played a lot of good cricket in the past few times.

00:40And we knew what we could do as a team.

00:43So, the first ball was self-belief that it was no matter.

00:47Because we didn't win a toss.

00:49So, I knew that the first batting had to come.

00:52So, there are hard conditions for batting.

00:54But, credit goes to Smithy and Shifali.

00:56They kept 10-10 hours after the day.

01:00The aim was that we knew that if we were to think of a big target,

01:04then we would have pressure on us.

01:06The aim was that,

01:07as we were just batting,

01:09and playing the game,

01:11we were just playing 300 runs on board,

01:14and one run was just short.

01:16But, after that,

01:18I think,

01:19there was a unit as a fielding as a unit.

01:21When the breakthrough was started,

01:23I think,

01:24it was a good match.

01:26It was easy to say.

01:28But,

01:29there was a lot of tension in the meantime,

01:31when the people were like Laura,

01:33and they didn't give the chance.

01:34But,

01:35at the end of the day,

01:36I'm feeling great.

01:37I don't know how to express it.

01:39But, I'm just trying to tell you what I'm feeling.

01:42Yes.

01:43Captain,

01:44congrats on the World Cup win.

01:46Indian women's team is trophy ke liye,

01:48bahut time se wait kar rahe.

01:49Previous generations bhi utna sacrifices har kam ka hai.

01:53How special woh moment,

01:55Mithali aur Julan ke saad share karna,

01:57woh previous generations ke liye.

01:58How special was this for you?

01:59Jooludi was my biggest support.

02:03When I came to the team,

02:05she was leading the team.

02:06And,

02:07they always supported me.

02:09In my early days,

02:10when I was very raw,

02:11didn't know much about cricket.

02:12I say,

02:14ladkoon ke saad kheelte kheelte,

02:15bas,

02:16school ke principal ne pick karra ho,

02:18and then,

02:19within a year,

02:20started representing country.

02:22To,

02:23initial days me,

02:24Anjumdi ne baus sport karra tha.

02:25To,

02:26unka,

02:27humesha,

02:28yad rata hai,

02:29ki,

02:30jab,

02:31pehli baar,

02:32team ke saad thi,

02:33to woh kaise,

02:34mujhe saad me leke chal te,

02:35to woh,

02:36unse joh learnings,

02:37main ne lehi thi,

02:38woh aage pa,

02:39pass out karri.

02:40I mean,

02:41ki aaj,

02:42unka saad special moment,

02:43share karne ka,

02:44moka mila,

02:45it was a very emotional moment.

02:46And, I think,

02:47we all were waiting for this,

02:48finally,

02:50yeh,

02:51trofee,

02:52ko,

02:53tach kar paaye.

02:54Captain,

02:55many congratulations.

02:56Ah,

02:57apke match ka,

02:58as ke doh,

02:59joh main characters thae.

03:00Deepti aur,

03:01shafali unke baare mein baat karenge.

03:02Ah,

03:03deepti ka tournament ka sa raah hai,

03:0421 wikets,

03:05sab se zaadha wikets liye,

03:06aaj ka match baha special ta,

03:0755 runs,

03:085 to 39.

03:09I think it's a destiny, I really believe in that.

03:36We really like that, and when it was a injury, everybody was crying.

03:43Even before that, when Yastika got injured, during our training camp, everybody was crying.

03:50Because this team is a very special team, they pray for one another, they stay with one another, they go with one another.

03:59Before Yastika's team, that was heartbreaking for us.

04:03And then, at that stage, when we started doing good things, then Pratika got injured.

04:08But, as Shifali came, we wanted that she didn't feel like she just came, and that's the feeling of injury.

04:16I mean, Pratika was so positive.

04:18I think everybody was so positive.

04:19I think everybody was so positive.

04:21I think everybody was so positive.

04:22I think everybody was so positive.

04:24I think everybody was so positive.

04:25I think everybody was so positive.

04:26It's all about our goal is trophy.

04:32And we have to keep working hard for day and night.

04:34That's a result.

04:36we have to you know keep working hard for day and night और उसका रिजल्ट है भी फिर्स्ट अफॉल मेनी कॉंग्राजूलेशन्स हर्मन सबसे पहले तो आपने जाने से पहले कहा था कि जीतने के बाद एहसास फील करना है क्योंकि बार-बार प्लोज पहुंचके हार जाते हैं तो एक वो अगर एहसास का अगर डिफ

05:06पहले तो आप फील की बात कर रहे थे जैसे मैंने पहले भी बोला कि I'm just trying to express कि मुझे क्या फील हो रहा है I'm numb मैंको समझ नहीं आ रहा है इननोंने दो क्वेश्चन पुछे थे एक कही आंसर कर रहा है तो बस यह है कि बहुत ups and down आए लेकिन टीम में एक self-belief था जो मैं पहल

05:36and goal था सिर्फ उसको देख रहे थे और उसके साथ-साथ I think I should give credit to all our family members, friends who were messaging us, वो लोग इतने positive थे, एक बार भी ऐसे नहीं हो रहा था, even credit goes to you guys, you've been you know, really helpful and supportive, I think I believe जब सब कुछ एक साथ चलता है तो automatic result आता है, तो हमारे लिए बहुत सारी चीजें एक साथ चली और उसका ही

06:06Hi Harman, Hi Harman, Congratulations, मेरे भी दो सवाल है, दोनों का जवाब चाहिए, आज अलावट है, Harman, आप बीच में जब fielding चल रहा था, बीच में अपने आप से शायद कुछ बात कर रहे थे या प्रे कर रहे थे, वो क्या था?

06:23वो personal है, मैं नहीं बताऊंगी

06:24सवाली कैंसल, चलो, आचा और शिफाली को bowling देने का plan, ये device कहां हुआ, plan strategy कहां प्लान हुई, क्या idea था उसके पीचे?

06:36Actually, जब शिफाली टीम को जॉइन भी करी थी, उसके बाद, क्योंकि प्रतिका से हम लोग वो overs ले रहे थे, तो शिफाली जैसे ही टीम को जॉइन करी थी, भी 100 investing में वो काफी overs डाल रहे थी, तो उससे बात करी थी, कि सर ने और मैंने, कि अगर जुरूरत पड़ी, तो तु�

07:06मैं मैं थौट आया है कि I should give try to Shifali के, let's see क्या होता है, तो बस एक gut feeling थी, और मुझे ये था है कि थोड़ा risky भी हो सकता है, but at the same time I was very positive, because she showed me that confidence when I was talking to her, sir was talking to her, तो I think वो मुझे वापिस रूम पे जा के ये नहीं सोचना था है कि यार मैंने try क्यों नहीं करा, because they were really looking good, और उस

07:36One last question before we move on to the right

07:39Harithi, India's first men's world cup winning captain was from Haryana, the women's team captain is from Punjab, the 1983 world cup win bought a revolution in men's cricket, do you feel this victory will have the same impact on women's game?

07:56Yeah, definitely, यह तो बहुत सालों से हम लोग बात करते आ रहे हैं, कि हम अच्छा cricket तो खेली रहे हैं, लेकिन उसके साथ साथ we have to win one big tournament, क्योंकि उसके बिना जो revolution के हम बात करते हैं, changes की बात करते हैं, वो नहीं आपाएगा, क्योंकि end of the day, fans, audience, everybody, they want to see कि उनकी favourite team cup उठाए, और we have been

08:26I don't know how to express, but I'm so happy and so proud of this team.

08:35Harman, hi, firstly, big, big congratulations, and I'm going to keep up with the tradition and ask two questions.

08:41Firstly, if you can, you know, just sum up the last month for you and for the entire team, and you've of course told us what you are feeling, but if you could also describe what the team is feeling, what are their emotions, are they emotional, are they looking forward to a whole night of celebrations,

08:56or what is, you know, happening in the dressing room?

09:00Last one month has been, you know, it's actually very interesting, you know, I don't know, because it's very rare that when you're so positive, you're really looking for this cup,

09:17so something was very special in our group,

09:20किसी ने भी, किसी एक प्लेयर ने भी हैसे आगे कभी नहीं बोला के, अब क्या करेंगे, अब क्या होगा,

09:25everybody was just thinking कि कोई बात नहीं,

09:28England का मैच हरने के बाद भी और रेडी हाट ब्रेके, ये मैच तो जीतने वाला था, और ऐसे कैसे हम लोग लोग क्लाप्स कर गे,

09:50we have to come up with a really strong mind,

09:52और I think that night changed a lot of things for us,

09:56और I think उसका कही न कहीं,

09:59impact हम सब के उपर आया,

10:01और हम लोग,

10:02तो मतलब इस World Cup के और भी परपेर होए,

10:06और भी visualization, meditation start गरी,

10:09और everybody took so seriously and started enjoying,

10:11जो एक दो प्लेर होते थे जिनको इतना अच्छा नहीं लगता था,

10:14visualization और meditation,

10:15but उसके बाद everybody came together because that shows के,

10:19we are here for something and that this time we have to do it.

10:27Celebration, celebration,

10:28तो we are waiting for this moment,

10:31अभी celebration तो पुरी राथ चलेगी and then let's see what

10:35BCCI planning for us.

10:40Sir की बात की, आपने Coach Amol Majumdar के रोल को किस तरह देखती हैं इस जीत में,

10:44तीन हार के बाद pre-match press conference में वो आये थे,

10:47उन्होंने belief बरकरार रखा team में,

10:49जेमिमा को drop करने के फैसले को उन्होंने बहुत मुश्किल फैसला बताया,

10:53प्रतिका रावल के strike rate को भी उन्होंने defend किया,

10:56किस तरह से देखती हैं उनकी रोल को?

10:57Sir का contribution last 2, 5 साल में बहुत amazing रहा है,

11:03उनकी आने से काफी सारी चीजे हमारे dressing room में change होई,

11:07पहले तो एक, उन्होंने उससे पहले बहुत सारे coaches change हो रहे थे,

11:12समझ नहीं आ रहा था कि कैसे आगी चीजों के लेकर आना है,

11:15बट सर के आने के बाद सब कुछ stable हुआ,

11:18सब कुछ smooth चलने लगा और I think कहीन है कि उनको बहुत credit जाता है,

11:23कि उन्होंने इस team को बना के रखा और day and night हमें practice कर वाई,

11:28और किंचिंचिंचिजों पे हमें improve करना था,

11:30उन चीजों को हमने training में बार-बार repeat करा,

11:33तो I think his contribution been great for the entire team and I'm really happy that you know we got opportunity to work with him.

11:44Hi Harman, congratulations.

11:46Across teams हमने इस बार देखा है कि whenever teams अच्छे परफॉर्म नहीं करते है,

11:50या फिर प्लेयर्स का परफॉर्म नहीं करते है,

11:53अकसर एक कृतिसिसम आती है कि इतने रसॉर्स हैं आपके पास,

11:56you're not able to play, you maybe shouldn't be playing the game at all and this is, every team has gone through this.

12:01अभी आप एक वर्लकप विनिंग काप्टन हो,

12:03when you look at this kind of a culture outside, whether it's between fans or whether it's between critics and all that,

12:08what would you like to tell people now that you people have actually won the World Cup?

12:13कोई मैसज होगा?

12:15Well, I think ये भी एक पार्ट है लाइफ का,

12:19क्यूंकि सब कुछ हमेजा अच्छा हो जरूरी नहीं है,

12:22but I think criticism is also one of the main thing in our life,

12:26क्योंकि वो बैलन्स लाता है,

12:28otherwise अगर सब चीजे अच्छी चलती रहे,

12:30तो you'll be overconfidence,

12:31so I think criticism करने वालों को I don't blame,

12:36क्योंकि कहिना कहीं, inside हमें भी पता होता है कि

12:38some things we are not doing right,

12:41और I don't have anything must to say,

12:44but यही है कि I keep both things balanced,

12:47because जब अच्छा होता है, don't like to go too high,

12:52और जब बुरा होता है,

12:53don't like to, you know,

12:54dig deep,

12:55तो मेरे लिए सबसे अधा ही important है,

12:57कि things को जतना balance रख सके,

12:59उतना important है,

13:00और जब अच्छा होता है,

13:01तीमेट के साथ भी,

13:03message पास होन रहता है,

13:04कि जब अच्छा हो रहा है,

13:05it's okay,

13:06Well done. But now we have to keep maintaining things. Every day we have to keep repeating. And when it's not good, we try to keep everybody together so that we can lift that person.

13:18Just go ahead.

13:31Hi Harman, congratulations. So I just wanted to know, what was your message to the team during that middle phase when South Africa was making a comeback?

13:39Because I mean in the past we have seen that the team has actually let the game slip away from such positions. So what was your message during that phase?

13:45Well, look, I was just telling them, keep faith. Because we really worked hard for this. Opportunities are going to come and we have to grab it.

13:54Because ODII Cricket, I believe, is very long. There are many faces that you have to tick over and over again.

14:02No doubt, they played a lot of good cricket. And I was just giving one message to all the players again and again.

14:12faith rukho. Opportunities are going to come. And we knew that our spinners have always been our biggest strength.

14:19Just as we have to maintain wickets. And at that time we have to maintain that. And I think the message was very clear. Just be positive.

14:29When we were inside, we were thinking about 10 good balls. We just need 10 wickets. Don't think, don't look at the scoreboard.

14:36Because if you look at the scoreboard, you will feel pressure. Just keep thinking that we have to take 10 good balls and 10 wickets and then the job is done.

14:44And that exactly happened. We were just thinking about wickets. In between, there will be partnership. We will talk about it earlier.

14:51Those people are also going to play. They are also going to show us some hard cricket. But at the same time, we will only look for wickets.

14:56And as we were just talking about wickets, we were just talking about 1, 2, 3. We were just talking about 1, 2 and 3.

15:00We were just talking about that. And we were just thinking about that.

15:04One final question, please.

15:06Hi, Harman. Congratulations.

15:08So, during the celebration, I obviously saw you and Sriti in a very long hug.

15:14You know, what does it mean to share this journey with her and this moment with her?

15:19I mean, I played a lot of World Cups.

15:24And when we went home, we lost some days.

15:29And as we came back, we talked about that.

15:33Again, we have to start from Ball 1.

15:35Because it was very heartbreaking for us.

15:37Because we played so many years and so many World Cups.

15:39And we were never able to reach the final, never able to reach the semi-final.

15:43So, we were always thinking about when we will break this.

15:46And as we knew that our venue was in Dubai in the stadium.

15:51We all got so happy.

15:53Because we always played cricket cricket.

15:55And the biggest thing is that the crowd is always good.

15:58And they are very supporting.

15:59So, the venue changed here in Bangalore.

16:03We all started messaging in the group.

16:05Wow!

16:06We were manifesting.

16:07And we came back to our venue.

16:09And the final one is going to be left.

16:11And as we came to Mumbai,

16:13So, we all got to be left.

16:15And now, let's just start.

16:16Thank you, everyone.

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