#(very likely given the time and place) (arun might not even be his real name i have thoughts on that)

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I dont understand people who act like armand can only be Christian OR Muslim like sorry is it so hard to believe he could have a complex attachment/relationship to both

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'Real challenge begins when you reach the top'

Jasprit Bumrah has enjoyed a phenomenal first year of international cricket, from a memorable Test debut in Cape Town to a nine-wicket haul in Melbourne, followed by a historic series win in Australia. In a freewheeling chat with TOI, the 25-year-old talks about his cricket.

Excerpts from the interview…

They’re all talking about you and your action for a year now, but you haven’t said much yourself. Are you generally this shy?

(Laughs) Not at all! I’m not shy. I do speak. It’s just that I take my time to open up, ever since I was a kid. People who know me will give you a different report if you ask them.

Dennis Lillee says you remind him of Jeff Thomson. You were born seven or eight years after Thomson retired. He too had an unusual action and will be remembered as one of the greatest. Being different can have its benefits too…

I’ve always been like this. I don’t take a lot of opinions seriously. Opinions change by the day, depending on what you bring to the table, how you perform. You can’t be taking every opinion seriously. What I try and do is focus on my strengths – what I can do, how far can I push myself – and I back them up with the best effort I can put in. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody can help you. That’s something I’ve spent a good deal of time telling myself.

Tell us about your childhood…did you always want to bowl fast?

As a kid, I was like anybody else, playing cricket, enjoying it. The only difference is, right from when I can remember, I always used to love bowling. I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket and still remember telling my friends, I’ll give you three-four chances, you just keep batting and I’ll bowl. It was then that I began to realize that I was quick. Nobody told me that. When you play tennis-ball cricket, you’ve got to be faster in the air. The surface is of no help. That was one of the reasons that focusing on pace alone become important. I’m lucky I’ve been able to fulfill that dream.

Did you grow up watching any fast bowler or bowlers in particular?

I used to admire a lot of fast bowlers. I used to watch cricket on TV only for the fast bowlers. I was never a fan of watching big sixes or batsmen scoring hundreds. I always used to enjoy watching fifers and bowlers bowling fast, scaring batsmen, intimidating them. No particular bowler as such.

Fast bowlers typically have classic open-chested, side-arm actions. How come you never tried copying that?

I wasn’t really interested in copying anybody’s action. I can understand what you’re saying – those fanboy moments. But that never happened to me.

In the Cape Town Test last year, your spell in the first Innings and the second innings just polarized opinion. Many changed their opinion of you after your Day Four spell…

I heard some of those opinions. I didn’t take them seriously then, don’t do that now. I take very few people seriously in my life. As a child growing up, I had a different action and people didn’t waste any time telling me that. I used to be inundated with suggestions on what I need to do and don’t. I didn’t listen to any of that. Never. It’s not like I don’t listen but what I do know is that at all times, I’ve got to find a way out on my own. That has given me a lot of self-belief – the idea of going and finding a way on my own. When I’m low, it is the same mindset that helps me today. Backing yourself is the best gift an individual can give himself.

How do you get your yorkers right so often?

As a kid, with the tennis ball, you can bowl only one kind of a delivery. There’s length in question, no bouncers. There’s only one ball that you have to practice. At that time, I played for fun. But later, when you start playing serious cricket, you realize the importance of that delivery. It still takes the same amount of hard work to get it right in a match situation. I do spend enough hours now trying to get all the little things correct. The line, the length, the bounce – the game now actively involves playing three formats which are very different from each other. So, there’s constant work to be done to stay in tune with each of them.

Did you consciously work on the away-going delivery?

It’s not like I couldn’t or didn’t have that in my armoury (earlier). Probably because I first managed to catch everybody’s attention in a particular format is why certain deliveries that I bowled were seen as core strengths. But I’m never happy with what I do, I’m always interested in expanding the base. It’s a big reason why I developed a good rapport with Shane Bond (Mumbai Indians’ bowling coach). You should ask him the number of questions I used to go to him with, all the time, asking him (how) I could add variety to my bowling.

Questions like…

What am I lacking right now? What are the deliveries, lengths I should try exploring? New ball, old ball – what line should I be bowling? The different surfaces and what it would take to adjust to them. There would be never-ending questions. The idea was to keep improving all the time.

How many deliveries do you need to get that rhythm going? On game eve, do you prefer relaxing or do you actually have to toil to find your groove?

Bowling is a lot about feel. Sometimes you get that feel in just two deliveries. Sometimes it doesn’t fall in place from the word go and it requires that much more toil and effort. Each day is a new day at work. It’s all about listening to your mind, going by gut feel.

Doubts have been expressed regarding your longevity with this action…

I’ve come to the realization that no action is perfect. Tell me a bowler who’s not been injured. That’s part of the game, specially these days when so much cricket is played. Your body adapts. With my kind of action, my strengths that I bring to the table, the constant question is, ‘How can I be effective?’

You’re also among the fittest members in the team right now…

When I first made the transition from first-class cricket to the international stage, I realised that if I had to sustain myself at this level, my idea of fitness would have to be taken to a whole new level. Fitness was the criteria back then too but international cricket is a different ballgame. Thankfully, I realized this quickly.

You have your cheat days?

Cheat days get lesser by the day. The more you inculcate discipline, cheat days just keep disappearing and there comes a time when the idea of a cheat day doesn’t even occur to you. I changed my diet, changed my training routines, starting ticking certain boxes that were new to my daily routine. It’s simple – if I have to give myself the best opportunity to perform, I’ve got to remain in the best shape possible. The thing is, reaching certain fitness levels is only half the work done. Staying there is the tougher half. The real challenge begins when you reach the top.

And then there’s mental fitness. How does that work for you?

Music. In my case, that helps me a lot. And yoga. Once I’m off cricket, nobody gets to know where I am, what I’m doing. When I’m with friends, family, we don’t talk cricket and that, I’ve realized, is important too. Not talking about cricket is as important as talking about cricket. You need to switch off in order to switch on.

Name a spell or a wicket that’s become your favourite…

No favourites as such. Debut in Cape Town, a series win in Australia – what can be more wonderful than that? You know, now that I look back, small things that happened between spells, between innings, how wonderfully I got to learn with each passing game. The first innings in Cape Town for instance, I bowled, learned what kind of line was required there, what the conditions demanded. And then coming back in the second innings keeping those aspects in mind, doing what was required – that is what I cherish.

Not everybody walks away with AB de Villiers as his first Test victim…

Yes, that was nice. Motivating.

There must be some wicket that you might remember for the way your plan worked…

The third Test in England. Trent Bridge. I had missed the first two Tests and was making a comeback and there was so much talk already in the England camp. They’d seen videos, there was some analysis and there were experts there who said, “This guy has only one type of delivery.” Some claimed I only had an away delivery for left-handers. I said fine, if this is what they’re thinking, then I have a bit of an advantage here. Because they don’t know that I have an out-swinger as well. I remember I was bowling to Keaton Jennings and I started with two away deliveries. I teased him by moving slightly over the wicket before bringing one back in slightly. It turned out to be just enough. Small joys are the best ones.

Earlier in your career, no-balls became a talking point. You seem to have worked on them till you got it right…

Firstly, in the World T20 semis, I didn’t bowl the no-ball. People tend to remember that because of the Champions Trophy. It was someone else who bowled the no-ball in the T20 game and I was the one who took the catch. But I’ve done that in the Champions Trophy so people are putting the other one on me too (laughs). But that’s okay. On a serious note, I did realize there was a problem (with no-balls) and I worked on it. The correction never happens overnight. So, I had to keep on working on it before I could move on.

Describe the key elements you focus on, especially before a big series coming up…

First, preparation is key. Second, keep an eye on the opposition, especially when you’re playing in their backyard. They know what’s best suited in their conditions, so constantly watching them can reveal things. Third: adapt. Keep repeating this.

Bharat Arun and Shane Bond are two coaches you have been closely associated with…

Bharat Arun has known me since my U-19 days. After playing some U-19 cricket for Gujarat, I went to the National Cricket Academy (NCA), that was the first time he saw me. Usually, when a coach sees a bowler for the first time, there’s bound to be some discussion on technique. But when he saw me, his first reaction was – you don’t need to change anything about your action. It’s nice working with Bharat Arun. He’s always open to discussions, backs me up all the time. Then, at Mumbai Indians, I came across Shane Bond. I had come back from injuries and was looking to find my feet again and a kind of a new journey began with him.

Rohit (Sharma) has been your captain at Mumbai Indians and always praises you…

He’s seen me before I was an India player and he’s seeing me now. He’s seen phases that I’ve been through. The thing with Rohit is, he’s never been different with me. He used to back me with a lot of space then and he does so now. He’ll come, ask me what I see or believe in, set the field accordingly and then keeps backing me up all the time. Some days it works, some days it doesn’t but it’s always reassuring.

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The Chowkidar Wars - Nation Information

http://tinyurl.com/yynfascg On the morning of March 14, the com­m­unications workforce on the Prime Minister’s Workplace received a name from the boss. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had an concept. He needed to show the ‘Chowkidar chor hai’ pitch of the Congr­ess on its head. Modi the challenger had given himself the tag in a marketing campaign humblebrag in 2014, promising voters he would neither take bribes nor enable others to take action. ‘Chowkidar chor hai’ was a direct assault on that promise by Congress president Rahul Gandhi as he alleged crony capitalism and corruption within the Rafale jet deal. Now, with elections simply weeks away, a nationwide ‘Most important bhi chowkidar’ marketing campaign was going to be the PM’s retort. Moments after the PM added ‘Chowkidar’ earlier than his title, his cupboard colleagues Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nirmala Sitharaman, Rajnath Singh and doz­ens of different ministers adopted the prefix. Within the first fortnight, an estimated two million Indians adopted go well with. Then there have been the songs and adverts. The ‘Most important bhi chowkidar’ marketing campaign had taken a lifetime of its personal. The comeback was classic Narendra Modi, a grasp communicator who is aware of how one can flip adversity into alternative, from the 2007 ‘Maut ka saudagar’ comment by Sonia Gandhi, which many say price Congress the state election, to Modi’s 2014 embrace of Congress chief Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘chaiwala’ jibe, which Modi changed into a participative ‘Chai pe charcha’ marketing campaign the place he proudly held out his everyman credentials. After turning into the prime minister, Modi began the father-daughter selfie marketing campaign in 2015 as a part of the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ marketing campaign. It was an enormous social media success. The present chowkidar marketing campaign is of a chunk with the PM’s espousal of transformation and transparency, and of his being a person of the lots. The response, say PMO officers, has been overwhelming. Pictures and messages for the marketing campaign are pouring in from internationally. Supporters have despatched in their very own footage, of graffiti on vehicles as assist for the marketing campaign. Practically 400,000 individuals have registered for a March 31 occasion the place the prime minister is anticipated to handle chowkidars throughout the nation and his marketing campaign workforce expects the quantity to surge to 1,000,000 by the date. Those that have regist­ered have been despatched the situation and matrix barcodes. The PM has dominated the narrative for per week, helped by a 100 million video views for the launched songs and a marketing campaign that trended globally for 2 days. There’s, nonetheless, a significant distinction between 2014 and now. 5 years in the past, it was Modi the challenger main the opposition towards the alleged misrule of UPA-II. This time spherical, he’s squarely answerable for a complete host of points, starting from unemployment to rural misery, which the opposition, together with the Congress, has used to focus on him. “NaMo was a promise,” explains model marketing consultant Harish Bijoor. “And that promise might be redeemed by the individuals. 5 years have handed and the PM and his cupboard have accomplished a variety of issues. There are two impressions-one, that he has labored and, second, that he hasn’t.” The BJP’s chowkidar marketing campaign seeks to deflect consideration from issues and in the direction of one in every of Model Modi’s defining features-the impression of power. The sense that he’s somebody with out peer and, most significantly, impervious to no matter is thrown at him. “From 56 inches to the Balakot air strikes to even one thing like dem­onetisation…that anyone had the braveness to take a step like that. Every little thing feeds into the picture of a fearless, peerless chief,” says model marketing consultant Santosh Desai. What additionally helps Modi, say model strategists, is his fiercely loyal base that enables him to show weak spot right into a power. “Most important bhi is a very powerful a part of the slogan. It is not a prime down slogan. It is an oath and there may be energy to an oath. Persons are taking a private vow,” says Desai. Model marketing consultant Harish Bijoor breaks down the numerous layers to the marketing campaign. Now that your complete cupboard is filled with chowkidars, and the BJP’s total assist base too, can each chowkidar be known as a chor? The opposite layer is “that chowkidari is bhaagidari (partnership). She or he might be apolitical, financial, spiritual. Even a chowkidar towards terrorism. The twist might be phenomenal”. That is what the BJP marketing campaign strategists have accomplished of their collection of seven quick movies on social media. Every movie, between one and three minutes lengthy, attracts consideration to constructive attributes and subtly reinforces the theme. The primary 4 set the tone, calculated to arouse pleasure within the widespread man for Modi, neutralise Rahul’s ‘Chowkidar chor hai’ marketing campaign, and give attention to the PM’s makes an attempt to wash up the system by campaigns akin to Swachh Bharat Mission and the drive towards black cash. Modi hopes it’s going to do for him in 2019 what the ‘chaiwala’ comment did in 2014. The three-minute essential movie begins with inventory footage of Modi’s ‘Most important desh ka chowkidar hoon’ comment and culminates in a tune with the punchline, ‘Most important bhi chowkidar hoon’. The opposite movies promote virtues like honesty and arduous work in addition to Swachh Bharat (see field The Sentinels are Right here). Requested concerning the ‘ideator’ behind the marketing campaign, a Crew Modi member named the prime minister. “The movies are totally a creation of his personal thoughts and the PMO,” he gushes. Model strategists say Modi’s capability to have a special technique for each digital platform makes him maybe the one world chief with such an knowledgeable model diversification technique. “He’s on LinkedIn, which is such an clever model transfer. It says identical to thousands and thousands of Indians who stand for his or her credentials, so do I. Modi is making the case that he and the individuals who observe him are the institution, not like (American president Donald) Trump, the place the picture is that he and his followers are anti-establishment,” observes Pal. Modi’s managers suppose the chowkidar marketing campaign has the potential to show the pro-Modi undercurrent right into a wave. The widespread man can relate to his chowkidar picture, given how the PM has launched direct profit switch into financial institution accounts in some 500 schemes (in contrast to a couple dozen in 2014), liberating them from the tyranny of the intermediary. They level to a spike within the confidence ranges of social gathering employees and declare that the massive success of the movies on social media has lured even the fence-sitters in the direction of the marketing campaign and its dialog playing cards on Twitter. Certainly, anyone who tweeted with the hashtag #maibhichowkidar received a personalised, bot-generated mess­age from the PM. Up subsequent is marketing campaign merchandise-chowkidar caps and T-shirts. The chowkidar marketing campaign, Modi’s managers imagine, has been efficient in countering the Congress’s ‘Chowkidar chor hai’ marketing campaign. Nonetheless, Joyojeet Pal, affiliate professor at College of Michigan’s College of Data, is just not so certain. Pal has been monitoring Modi’s digital profile since 2014. His workforce has analysed knowledge from 340,000 tweets from 2,095 Congress and a pair of,836 BJP politicians since March 13, to indicate that each events roughly equally use the time period ‘chowkidar’. The identical day that the BJP peaked its use of #Chowkidar and #MainBhiChowkidar, March 17, was additionally the day the Congress peaked its point out of #Chowkidar and #ChowkidarHiChorHai. “I’m assured it’s as a lot a gal­vanising problem for the Congress as it’s for the BJP,” he says. Pal says the marketing campaign has not been as efficient because the ‘selfie with daughter marketing campaign’. “Individuals have not en masse moved their names to chowkidar.” The movies, how­ever, are an advert govt’s delight. “I really feel the movies have been very efficient as a marketing campaign. Everyone agrees on that,” says ren­owned advert filmmaker Piyush Pandey. The Congress has responded by upping its personal marketing campaign towards Modi. However the PM has plans to counter this too: a movie evaluating the frugal lives of his kinfolk versus the opulent life of opposition leaders and their households. The battle is much from over. Get real-time alerts and all of the news in your cellphone with the all-new India Right now app. Obtain from Source link

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The real challenge begins when you reach the top: Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah has enjoyed a phenomenal first year of international cricket, from a memorable Test debut in Cape Town to a nine-wicket haul in Melbourne, followed by a historic series win in Australia. In a freewheeling chat with TOI, the 25-year-old talks about his cricket.

Excerpts from the interview…

They’re all talking about you and your action for a year now, but you haven’t said much yourself. Are you generally this shy?

(Laughs) Not at all! I’m not shy. I do speak. It’s just that I take my time to open up, ever since I was a kid. People who know me will give you a different report if you ask them.

Dennis Lillee says you remind him of Jeff Thomson. You were born seven or eight years after Thomson retired. He too had an unusual action and will be remembered as one of the greatest. Being different can have its benefits too…

I’ve always been like this. I don’t take a lot of opinions seriously. Opinions change by the day, depending on what you bring to the table, how you perform. You can’t be taking every opinion seriously. What I try and do is focus on my strengths – what I can do, how far can I push myself – and I back them up with the best effort I can put in. If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody can help you. That’s something I’ve spent a good deal of time telling myself.

Tell us about your childhood…did you always want to bowl fast?

As a kid, I was like anybody else, playing cricket, enjoying it. The only difference is, right from when I can remember, I always used to love bowling. I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket and still remember telling my friends, I’ll give you three-four chances, you just keep batting and I’ll bowl. It was then that I began to realize that I was quick. Nobody told me that. When you play tennis-ball cricket, you’ve got to be faster in the air. The surface is of no help. That was one of the reasons that focusing on pace alone become important. I’m lucky I’ve been able to fulfill that dream.

Did you grow up watching any fast bowler or bowlers in particular?

I used to admire a lot of fast bowlers. I used to watch cricket on TV only for the fast bowlers. I was never a fan of watching big sixes or batsmen scoring hundreds. I always used to enjoy watching fifers and bowlers bowling fast, scaring batsmen, intimidating them. No particular bowler as such.

Fast bowlers typically have classic open-chested, side-arm actions. How come you never tried copying that?

I wasn’t really interested in copying anybody’s action. I can understand what you’re saying – those fanboy moments. But that never happened to me.

In the Cape Town Test last year, your spell in the first Innings and the second innings just polarized opinion. Many changed their opinion of you after your Day Four spell…

I heard some of those opinions. I didn’t take them seriously then, don’t do that now. I take very few people seriously in my life. As a child growing up, I had a different action and people didn’t waste any time telling me that. I used to be inundated with suggestions on what I need to do and don’t. I didn’t listen to any of that. Never. It’s not like I don’t listen but what I do know is that at all times, I’ve got to find a way out on my own. That has given me a lot of self-belief – the idea of going and finding a way on my own. When I’m low, it is the same mindset that helps me today. Backing yourself is the best gift an individual can give himself.

How do you get your yorkers right so often?

As a kid, with the tennis ball, you can bowl only one kind of a delivery. There’s length in question, no bouncers. There’s only one ball that you have to practice. At that time, I played for fun. But later, when you start playing serious cricket, you realize the importance of that delivery. It still takes the same amount of hard work to get it right in a match situation. I do spend enough hours now trying to get all the little things correct. The line, the length, the bounce – the game now actively involves playing three formats which are very different from each other. So, there’s constant work to be done to stay in tune with each of them.

Did you consciously work on the away-going delivery?

It’s not like I couldn’t or didn’t have that in my armoury (earlier). Probably because I first managed to catch everybody’s attention in a particular format is why certain deliveries that I bowled were seen as core strengths. But I’m never happy with what I do, I’m always interested in expanding the base. It’s a big reason why I developed a good rapport with Shane Bond (Mumbai Indians’ bowling coach). You should ask him the number of questions I used to go to him with, all the time, asking him (how) I could add variety to my bowling.

Questions like…

What am I lacking right now? What are the deliveries, lengths I should try exploring? New ball, old ball – what line should I be bowling? The different surfaces and what it would take to adjust to them. There would be never-ending questions. The idea was to keep improving all the time.

How many deliveries do you need to get that rhythm going? On game eve, do you prefer relaxing or do you actually have to toil to find your groove?

Bowling is a lot about feel. Sometimes you get that feel in just two deliveries. Sometimes it doesn’t fall in place from the word go and it requires that much more toil and effort. Each day is a new day at work. It’s all about listening to your mind, going by gut feel.

Doubts have been expressed regarding your longevity with this action…

I’ve come to the realization that no action is perfect. Tell me a bowler who’s not been injured. That’s part of the game, specially these days when so much cricket is played. Your body adapts. With my kind of action, my strengths that I bring to the table, the constant question is, ‘How can I be effective?’

You’re also among the fittest members in the team right now…

When I first made the transition from first-class cricket to the international stage, I realised that if I had to sustain myself at this level, my idea of fitness would have to be taken to a whole new level. Fitness was the criteria back then too but international cricket is a different ballgame. Thankfully, I realized this quickly.

You have your cheat days?

Cheat days get lesser by the day. The more you inculcate discipline, cheat days just keep disappearing and there comes a time when the idea of a cheat day doesn’t even occur to you. I changed my diet, changed my training routines, starting ticking certain boxes that were new to my daily routine. It’s simple – if I have to give myself the best opportunity to perform, I’ve got to remain in the best shape possible. The thing is, reaching certain fitness levels is only half the work done. Staying there is the tougher half. The real challenge begins when you reach the top.

And then there’s mental fitness. How does that work for you?

Music. In my case, that helps me a lot. And yoga. Once I’m off cricket, nobody gets to know where I am, what I’m doing. When I’m with friends, family, we don’t talk cricket and that, I’ve realized, is important too. Not talking about cricket is as important as talking about cricket. You need to switch off in order to switch on.

Name a spell or a wicket that’s become your favourite…

No favourites as such. Debut in Cape Town, a series win in Australia – what can be more wonderful than that? You know, now that I look back, small things that happened between spells, between innings, how wonderfully I got to learn with each passing game. The first innings in Cape Town for instance, I bowled, learned what kind of line was required there, what the conditions demanded. And then coming back in the second innings keeping those aspects in mind, doing what was required – that is what I cherish.

Not everybody walks away with AB de Villiers as his first Test victim…

Yes, that was nice. Motivating.

There must be some wicket that you might remember for the way your plan worked…

The third Test in England. Trent Bridge. I had missed the first two Tests and was making a comeback and there was so much talk already in the England camp. They’d seen videos, there was some analysis and there were experts there who said, “This guy has only one type of delivery.” Some claimed I only had an away delivery for left-handers. I said fine, if this is what they’re thinking, then I have a bit of an advantage here. Because they don’t know that I have an out-swinger as well. I remember I was bowling to Keaton Jennings and I started with two away deliveries. I teased him by moving slightly over the wicket before bringing one back in slightly. It turned out to be just enough. Small joys are the best ones.

Earlier in your career, no-balls became a talking point. You seem to have worked on them till you got it right…

Firstly, in the World T20 semis, I didn’t bowl the no-ball. People tend to remember that because of the Champions Trophy. It was someone else who bowled the no-ball in the T20 game and I was the one who took the catch. But I’ve done that in the Champions Trophy so people are putting the other one on me too (laughs). But that’s okay. On a serious note, I did realize there was a problem (with no-balls) and I worked on it. The correction never happens overnight. So, I had to keep on working on it before I could move on.

Describe the key elements you focus on, especially before a big series coming up…

First, preparation is key. Second, keep an eye on the opposition, especially when you’re playing in their backyard. They know what’s best suited in their conditions, so constantly watching them can reveal things. Third: adapt. Keep repeating this.

Bharat Arun and Shane Bond are two coaches you have been closely associated with…

Bharat Arun has known me since my U-19 days. After playing some U-19 cricket for Gujarat, I went to the National Cricket Academy (NCA), that was the first time he saw me. Usually, when a coach sees a bowler for the first time, there’s bound to be some discussion on technique. But when he saw me, his first reaction was – you don’t need to change anything about your action. It’s nice working with Bharat Arun. He’s always open to discussions, backs me up all the time. Then, at Mumbai Indians, I came across Shane Bond. I had come back from injuries and was looking to find my feet again and a kind of a new journey began with him.

Rohit (Sharma) has been your captain at Mumbai Indians and always praises you…

He’s seen me before I was an India player and he’s seeing me now. He’s seen phases that I’ve been through. The thing with Rohit is, he’s never been different with me. He used to back me with a lot of space then and he does so now. He’ll come, ask me what I see or believe in, set the field accordingly and then keeps backing me up all the time. Some days it works, some days it doesn’t but it’s always reassuring.