KL Rahul won Player of the Match as he helped save the day for Team India on Sunday, but it was not his cricketing accomplishments that made his family proud.
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00:00My mother still gives me *** for not having a degree.
00:05The happiest they've been is when I got a RBI job.
00:08My dad's a professor, my mom's a professor.
00:30My mother still gives me **** for not having a degree.
00:42Even now?
00:43Even now, yeah.
00:44Even during lockdown, she said why don't you finish your 30 papers.
00:46Why don't you sit and write it and get a degree.
00:49No mom, what do you want me to do?
00:52I'm playing cricket, doing well for myself, you want me to write 30 papers.
00:55She's like yeah, why not?
00:57She's not impressed.
00:58She's not impressed with you.
00:59Which is not? IPL captaincy, India captaincy, nah. Degree.
01:04The happiest they've been is when I got a RBI job.
01:07Because I got a central government job. So, they were the happiest.
01:10I had played four years for India already.
01:13But that didn't make them happy.
01:14This was like, yes, now you'll be stable.
01:16I'll just get a good salary.
01:18They look after the sports people really well.
01:21Yeah.
01:22I love how you're talking about good salary.
01:26There's people out there who are listening and saying,
01:28IPL captain playing for India.
01:31Still proper middle class values.
01:33Good service.
01:34Yeah.
01:35My dad's a professor.
01:37My mom's a professor.
01:39The whole family, whoever I can think of, my cousins,
01:43whoever, are all either engineers or doctors or doing something.
01:49I was a smart kid till like 10th.
01:52Once you finish 10th,
01:54you could choose whether you want to do commerce or you want to do science.
01:58And nobody in my family has ever taken commerce.
02:00So, it was like, for my parents, it's going to be embarrassing for us.
02:06I can't do it.
02:07I can't take up science and play cricket.
02:09There's no chance.
02:11But they understood.
02:13When did they finally say, okay, now it's fine.
02:18But if you're telling me a year and a half ago,
02:20your mom was telling you to take 30 papers then.
02:22My mom keeps taunting me every now and then.
02:26But I've been fortunate in a way because, you know,
02:29dad played a bit of cricket.
02:31He played for his university and everything.
02:33And his story is that his parents didn't encourage him that much to play cricket.
02:39They didn't stop him.
02:40But once he got to a place where either he had to choose cricket or studies,
02:45that's when they said, no, you have to choose studies.
02:47He loves the game as well.
02:48So, he never stopped me or never said you cannot play it.
02:52He said, I'll let you play it.
02:54I want you to play cricket.
02:56But just make sure your education doesn't take a backseat completely.