00:00Thank you for listening.
00:30Thank you for listening.
02:33You are all part of it, right from school to club to wherever it goes.
02:39To my family that's present here, without their support, I don't think I would have made it.
02:48Diana mentioned, no, Razdeep mentioned your mother at 80, yeah, is obsessed with the game.
02:57There's my mother there, 86, even more obsessed with the game.
03:02She has watched test cricket from 1960s.
03:06Right from Sobers at the CCI to Neil Harvey to the works, Clive Lloyd with Richards, who all came.
03:13And her favorite was Neil Harvey.
03:14And she was a pest.
03:16You know, you had to score every game.
03:18Whether there's COVID, no COVID, you had to score.
03:21And, but that was the kind of encouragement you needed to go places.
03:27So my wife is here.
03:28My daughter is here.
03:29She never saw me playing here.
03:30But she pesters me for passes.
03:32You know, every now and then.
03:33And Sunday will be a game when she'll pester me.
03:35My sister is there.
03:36My nephew is there.
03:37So I'm glad everyone's present.
03:40Only one disappointment, my father.
03:43He was my hero.
03:45You know, he's not present here today, but he watched almost every game from the Garwari Pavilion at that time.
03:54But he'll be upstairs.
03:56He'll be proud that this has happened.
03:59Now, I've talked about all these things that have come.
04:02But, you know, there's one favorite shot of mine on this Vankhede Stadium.
04:06You know, you've hit sixes galore.
04:09You've played over a span of 15 years, various forms of cricket.
04:13But it was against Australia.
04:15I think Dilip was the non-striker.
04:18It was just after I reached 100.
04:21And I hit Bruce Reid.
04:23On top of the Ravi Shastri stand, Chaprevar.
04:27So if I was doing commentary for that today,
04:32it's Reid.
04:33It's Shastri on strike.
04:36Shastri goes big.
04:37It's on the roof of the Ravi Shastri stand.
04:41It brings down a block from there.
04:43It's six more.
04:44One of the biggest scene at the Vankhede.
04:50To everyone present here, thank you once again.
04:54It's a special evening.
04:56It's an honor.
04:57Thanks forבר'clock.
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