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00:00I like to enjoy every day as it comes so if I get a chance to play golf I feel
00:13very happy and proud because as a sportsman you know I can't play cricket
00:18anymore but if I can play any sports I feel proud about that because as a kid
00:23you're grown up only doing that. I think this is not my game but when I go on to
00:29the greens or go and play I'll give my hundred percent and try to win
00:35everything if not let it so be. I think it look totally every time you come
00:41after six months and it look a different city altogether the growth in the city
00:47and you know the restaurant the food I think it's a wonderful and hats off to
00:55the people who start thinking and give them life in desert where in 80s they
01:02were nothing absolutely nothing and today you can feel proud about that it
01:08become a golfing destination also apart from cricket apart from so many other
01:14sports. Whatever I understand is I think they play almost 10 months in a year the
01:22cricket becomes so much they don't get a chance to rest if you look at a
01:27football or tennis there is season for everything but now there's throughout 10
01:33months or more than 10 months they have a season to play so more you play more
01:38injuries will come out and I think cricket is not a very simple it's a very
01:44athletic game athletic in a sense you use all the muscles and different
01:51grounds and softness and hardness so I think adapting everything is not so
01:57easy the body really toll on body so you crack yes I think cricket is something
02:04more you play but your muscle will dwell whatever I come to know people like you
02:11or other people come and talk about that is that they are not allowed to bowl
02:16more than 20-25 balls or 30 balls in the net I think more you bowl in the net
02:22your muscle will start developing that's one reason and when there is so much
02:28pressure they take to play on the very professional level then the body start
02:35cracking down at that time so I think they have to play more or bowl more more
02:42than anything else I think it's very difficult to say only thing one can say
02:48do we have a team yes we have a team but there are other teams also who has the
02:54ability to win the World Cup I think you need a stroke of luck you need a right
02:58combination and on top of that I hope the main player remain fit that's the
03:05most important thing when they play so much cricket injuries are going to take
03:10place so I hope when they get to play the tournament they don't get injured I
03:17think that's leave it to the cricket board what they plan or selectors I yes
03:22I feel but if I look at the flip side of that there are so many cricketers coming
03:30so everybody get a chance to play only thing is future what I can see from
03:35outside they will have three teams one only for T20 one only for one day cricket
03:42and one only for test cricket that way you can have a bigger pool also but yes
03:51they should have one set of team for a period of time you can have odd person
03:59changing I can understand but man of the match next day they change and somebody
04:04else comes so we as a cricketer don't understand that I think very important
04:10what the academies have where you're learning the cricket there in the school
04:15cricket and junior cricket that's where one have to go more emphasis on the
04:21fastballers rest is if you don't have you don't have something like fastball
04:28you don't produce overnight I think one have to work and have a policy what
04:34kind of cricket they want to see in future I think one shouldn't look at the
04:39world you should look at your team and your way of thinking if Hardik Pandey is
04:44there they should not say if you lose one series you remove him I think if you
04:49make a captain you have to give him a fairly a long rope to make sure he will
04:54he will start performing and he will make a mistake so you don't really see
05:03the mistake you see is he ready for taking the team and give them look for
05:10the future but you don't go by series by series a player of that caliber you
05:17don't have to say why why you have a 11 player of 11 a team of 11 players so why
05:24you want to pick one or two I can have my own liking and disliking but every
05:31generation is going to go better and better in our time I think Sunil Gavaskar
05:36was one of the finest then we saw Rahul Dravid we've seen Sachin Varendar
05:42Sehwag and now this generation Rohit and Virat Kohli and next generation will be
05:48better it's not going to be come down you will find a better cricketer will
05:53come in and perform better we never expected Surya Kumar can come out and
05:58play something like that