00:01Surya, any update on Harshit Rana? Has he been ruled out or is he still there?
00:07He hasn't been ruled out yet but after the warm-up game he wasn't looking good.
00:11Physios are assessing but I think he knows what he's going to do today.
00:15But he doesn't look good. It's not that great.
00:21In their team, there are 3-4 players from Bombay. You know.
00:25He's saying that the green card vs. Aadhar card match is running.
00:31Yes, he's running.
00:35Surya.
00:37Surya, but you have a life circle as well as complete.
00:41Because from Bombay, you are going to get out of this mud.
00:45And you are going to lead to this world.
00:48What do you see all these things?
00:50That's right.
00:51You are going to go to a dollar.
00:53But I'm looking for a good view.
00:57It's good that people are getting the opportunity.
00:59They are playing from other countries.
01:01But it's a good opportunity for them.
01:03I have played a lot of cricket with them.
01:05But now we are all playing in cricket.
01:10We are playing cricket.
01:12I have played at least in Bombay.
01:14I know how it works here.
01:15We will start the tournament tomorrow.
01:19After that, we will catch up slowly.
01:22How do you see the captain?
01:24The captain is good.
01:26I always remind you.
01:28The captain is a little overrated.
01:31The captain is a little overrated.
01:32The captain is a little overrated.
01:34The captain is a little overrated.
01:36The captain is a little overrated feeling.
01:38The captain is a little overrated.
01:39The captain is a little overrated.
01:40The captain is a little overrated.
01:41But it's good.
01:42It's a good responsibility.
01:43It's a good lead to the team.
01:44The captain is a good lead to the home soil.
01:45And starting the campaign from Van Kede.
01:48I am very excited.
01:50And it's a good responsibility too.
01:51I am very excited.
01:52Absolutely.
01:53As I said about the team,
01:58I should ask whether he played at the team
01:59in New Zealand against his batting in the warm-up.
02:03What will happen then after the team?
02:05You were so happy to see the match after the half century,
02:07Then the captain and the captain and captain,
02:10the captain of what he had come up with.
02:12How will we expect to see him at the World Cup in opening?
02:15Definitely, as he played cricket in the last 5-5 T20.
02:19He was an international game, so he showed so much.
02:22But if he was playing domestic cricket,
02:25the T20 trophy,
02:28he also batted the same thing.
02:30And he carried the same thing here.
02:32He got an opportunity for 3 numbers.
02:34And he opened it in the warm-up game.
02:36So I hope that he batted the same thing.
02:39Whatever position he will play.
02:41He won't play the same thing.
02:43But the opportunity that he will do batting.
02:48How big of a rule-out will he be?
02:52Because they are all-rounders.
02:53We don't know the fitness status of Washington.
02:55So all-rounders are important players for this team.
02:59Don't worry, there are 11 players for us today.
03:02But the big blow is obviously.
03:06Because if you make a squad for 15,
03:08you make a lot of combinations.
03:11So that's what we thought about it.
03:14And if he is not available for us going forward,
03:16then we will set the other combinations
03:18and how we can do it.
03:20But we have enough combinations.
03:23We have enough combinations for all teams against
03:25which we can make in this tournament.
03:27But if we miss him, we will definitely miss him.
03:30Surya, all the best for the tournament.
03:35And another question of Harshit with a different undertone.
03:39If eventually he is ruled out, that would be unfortunate.
03:43But who are the replacement options?
03:45We will see right now.
03:47Who are the fast bowlers who have done really well for the last one or two years?
03:53And who is the best bowlers who can batting?
03:56But there is no hard and fast rule that can batting.
03:59Because if you expect someone to beat someone in 9 or 10,
04:02and you expect someone to beat someone in 9 or 10,
04:04then what will he say?
04:06But we will see.
04:08We will have a few options.
04:11But we will pick the best one.
04:13Surya, there is a tournament in one month.
04:16And we have seen surprises in this format before.
04:19So how important is tomorrow's game going to be?
04:22Because it is the first match.
04:24I think all the games we will play today.
04:27Like from the warm-up game.
04:29Warm-up game was also important for us to set the tone for the World Cup.
04:32And in any team against the World Cup,
04:35I think all the games are important.
04:37You cannot lightly take any team.
04:39In this format, you just require two good batters on a given day.
04:43Or one or two good bowlers to make a difference.
04:46So you have to be switched on all the time.
04:48In every game.
04:50And we have seen it before.
04:52During the T20 World Cups.
04:54Or any tournaments.
04:56That yes, teams have troubled a lot of teams.
05:00So we will have to bring our A-game.
05:01Set the tone from tomorrow.
05:03Surya, not having a strong team.
05:08In the initial rounds.
05:10Maybe except Pakistan.
05:12Is it an advantage or a disadvantage?
05:14How do you see that?
05:15Sir, I do not see any weak teams in the competition.
05:18All twenty teams are very much capable of playing some good cricket in this format.
05:25As I said, it is a format where you can see a good player doing well on any given day.
05:31That requires one or two batters to make a difference.
05:34Or one or two bowlers to have a good twenty-four balls on that given day.
05:38So we will have to play the same way as we have been playing against all the teams.
05:42So there is no weak or tough teams in the competition.
05:46I think all are the same.
05:48Surya, every tournament that India comes into, especially World Cups, they come in with a lot of expectations.
05:55But this time the expectations are a lot more higher because of the performance of the team in the last 19 months.
06:00Having lost just five or six matches.
06:02So how are you looking forward to handling that expectation and playing at home as well?
06:06See, I think when you are playing at home, there is always an added pressure.
06:12I am not running away from the fact.
06:14To be honest, there will be nerves, there will be pressure.
06:17But if you see the positive side of it, there will be a lot of cheer around.
06:22You are playing at home soil.
06:24So you know there are people backing you.
06:27Talking about expectations, yes, definitely the way we have played in the last one or two years.
06:32People must be expecting the same way.
06:35And we will try giving them more reasons to stay on top, to play the same brand of cricket.
06:41There are so many people coming to watch in the stadiums.
06:43I have told my boys the same thing.
06:45There are 30-35 thousand people coming.
06:47So many people watching at home.
06:49Let's give them a good time.
06:50Let's give them entertainment.
06:52Surya, as an individual who is also the leader of this camp,
06:57how do you see this competition where India is expected to kind of go all the way and win the trophy?
07:01And that will again be a third title win which no other team has done in the past.
07:05How do you look at this possibility as a leader?
07:08See, there is no double thought that we have been playing good cricket.
07:13But at the same time, you have to be in present as well.
07:17Yes, you are playing at home.
07:19You are expected to win the tournament.
07:21The way you have been playing your cricket.
07:23No one has defended the title.
07:25No one has won on the home soil.
07:27Yes, everything runs in everyone's mind.
07:29But at the same time, you have to be in the present as well.
07:32You have to see what you want to do on the given day.
07:35How do you want to play cricket?
07:37That is, I think, very important.
07:39And just stay in the present.
07:41Have your feet where you are.
07:44Stay grounded.
07:45Because when you are playing at home, you want to be more excited.
07:47You want to give people more than they expect.
07:50In that time, you might make a mistake.
07:52But I think staying in present will be the key in this World Cup.
07:57Even though we go till the end, but I think every game we play,
08:01we will have to be very relaxed and think about the game what we are playing.
08:05Surya, at the time of the selection, you did admit that left-hand and right-hand combination
08:11is kind of overrated.
08:12But in a top eight, that could possibly have six left-handers.
08:16Does that become a different headache to manage for the management?
08:21How do you handle it?
08:22Now, you say it's a good headache.
08:27I think it's a good headache.
08:29And I do feel it is an overrated conversation.
08:34Because at this stage, when you have played so much cricket against the left-hand spinners,
08:39off-spinners, whatever it is, you have played enough cricket, you practice a lot.
08:42So, on a given day, irrespective of a spinner or a fast bowler is bullying two left-handers
08:47or two right-handers, I think your job is to do what you do the best for the team.
08:53And that's what is happening.
08:55Surya, India have generally tried to focus on their own strengths more than look at the opposition.
09:04But teams like US, Namibia, Netherlands, you have not played a lot against them.
09:07So, how much work goes into figuring out what to expect from those sides?
09:13See, we do see a lot of videos.
09:16Yes, we don't play them often.
09:17But at the same time, we have a lot of preparations going on when we have bowlers meeting, batters meeting.
09:22We see the bowlers.
09:24We play similar kind of fast bowlers when we are practicing in the nets as well.
09:27So, yes, there are a lot of preparations behind it.
09:30Though we have a disadvantage that we don't get to play these nations.
09:33But definitely, you have to be prepared.
09:36At this level, there is no excuse.
09:38Hi, Surya.
09:39Just wanted to know, like, how is the confidence level in the team that you have won recently
09:434-1 against New Zealand, which was very good, and now against the practice match against
09:48South Africa.
09:49How is the atmosphere in the dressing room?
09:51See, the atmosphere is good.
09:53The mood in the camp is really nice, very positive.
09:57Most important is that people are enjoying what's happening around as a group.
10:02So, that's what I want from them.
10:03Because I have shared a few 2024, T20 World Cup experience and instances with them.
10:10So, that taste, they should feel that taste.
10:14And the mood in the camp is very happy, very relaxed, very excited for the World Cup.
10:18I told them there is very less people who get an opportunity to represent India.
10:23That too on the home soil.
10:24So, it's a great opportunity.
10:26So, just enjoy it and cherish it.
10:28All the best to you.
10:30Surya.
10:31Yes, sir.
10:32Let's talk some cricket.
10:34I just wanted to ask you about slow ball and especially someone like Sam Karan's moon ball.
10:40If a left-arm fast baller puts slow ball, and especially a guy like Karan who goes and
10:46balls from 80kph to 40kph or something.
10:50As a right-hander batter or just as a batter, what is the challenge?
10:55I think it's all about your skill.
10:58It's all about how you want to practice those deliveries.
11:03We've been trying to do that.
11:05Yes, there are a lot of teams, a lot of batters who enjoy playing against pace.
11:10But at the same time, this comes with the skill.
11:13If the left-arm fast baller or any right-arm fast baller has a skill of bowling nice slower
11:20deliveries, it all comes with practice.
11:22You have to just practice in the nets and then be prepared for that in the game.
11:26Hi Surya.
11:27We've always seen you smile even if things are not going your way.
11:32Be it your runs, be it a likely rule out of Harshit.
11:36Have you always been like this?
11:38Is this something you worked on?
11:40There's already enough pressure from outside.
11:43Oh, I didn't say that.
11:45See, there's already so much going on on the ground when we are off the field.
11:50So I think when we are on the field, we just want to be relaxed because I feel the preparations,
11:57what we do during practice sessions when we are in the room, I think that sets the tone
12:02when you come on the ground.
12:03As I've always said, it comes on autopilot when you come on the ground.
12:06You have to let your emotions flow and take the best call what the team needs on that given day.
12:11So at the same time, and you know this format is actually very harsh for the bowlers,
12:16sometimes to the batters as well.
12:18But you have to be relaxed, give them company at that time, make them relaxed, take their breaths back
12:25and just enjoy it.
12:26You are there as a group for 75-80 minutes on the ground when you are fielding.
12:30So I think that's the time we have fun on the ground and then enjoy it.
12:34Hi Surya.
12:36Apart from the pressure and the leadership role and all these things, as an individual also,
12:42is this World Cup a little extra special for you because it's a home World Cup.
12:46The first match is your home ground.
12:48You have been given this legacy by your senior Rohit of defending the title especially at home.
12:53So does it add an extra factor here?
12:56See, as I said, playing at home soil is always excitement.
13:02I felt that when we played the ODI World Cup in 2023.
13:06Crowd coming in numbers, people having chat around when you are travelling on the airport.
13:10So it's a good thing.
13:12It gives you motivation all the time.
13:14But yeah, at the same time, it brings a lot of responsibility also that you are getting to lead such a wonderful side,
13:21that too in India at home soil starting at Vankhede.
13:24So boys are very excited to take the field tomorrow.
13:28And I'm sure there will be a lot of excitement.
13:30Last one.
13:31Surya, you said that this format is very harsh for the ballers.
13:36You have the luxury that you have two spinners in India.
13:39Varun, Chakravarti and Kuldeep are both of you.
13:41Will it be an awkward question or a good headache for you?
13:44Or is it clear that these are both spinners and spinners will play in each match?
13:49Or how do you see the conditions in each match?
13:52Look, this is an added advantage that you have so many bowlers available.
13:56But at the same time, you have to see the combination of the team against you.
14:01If there is a need that we can play two spinners, two wrist spinners,
14:05then we will definitely play.
14:07But yes, it's always good to have options like Varun Chakravarti and Kuldeepiado,
14:12two best spinners in the world.
14:14And it is a very good headache.
14:16Thank you, gentlemen.
14:18Have a good day.
14:19Hello, ladies.
14:20Have a great talk.
14:21Can you help the ladies and gentlemen?
14:23Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much.
14:26Aaj aap chupke bethe ho legini.
14:29Aaj aap chupke bethe ho legini.
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