“Sree, you also take off your shirt…” Former cricketer Sreesanth recalled taking the catch that ensured India’s win in the 2007 T20 World Cup.
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00:00The moment the ball went for that six, I was like,
00:02oh my God, we won't be able to go home.
00:05Maybe we are going back to Dubai.
00:07Or maybe we'll have to go to England.
00:09Surely not India.
00:11Because I was a part of that 50-0 World Cup which we lost.
00:13So, I know what Mumbai airport did to us.
00:16Hi, this is Sreeshanth here and you guys are watching me on Brute.
00:30Yogi Bhai came into the bowl and the first bowl was a wide.
00:32Then he bowled a full toss which went for a six.
00:34The moment the ball went for that six, I was like,
00:37oh my God, we won't be able to go home.
00:40Maybe we are going back to Dubai.
00:42Or maybe we'll have to go to England.
00:44Surely not India.
00:46Because I was a part of that 50-0 World Cup which we lost.
00:48So, I know what Mumbai airport did to us.
00:51And all the staff and everybody who met us during those times.
01:00I'm genuinely grateful that MS Dhoni put me in the short final, thinking that the ball
01:08won't come there. Because he wanted some extraordinary fielders to be in long and long off and everything.
01:16So nobody expected Mizbah to play that short first of all. Even when I see the replays
01:21of the World Cup victory, I can hardly remember what we were thinking about it. I think it
01:25was a flow state where you focus really hard, then it becomes a blank state. And we won
01:29the World Cup. There was Shah Rukh bhai and his son. A lot of celebrities were there.
01:33They were all coming to the ground, cheering. Then Dhoni bhai took off his shirt and he
01:37was gifting it to some of the fans. Then they were all like literally screaming, Sree, you
01:42also take off your shirt. I think it's a moment you can show off. I said, bro, no, man, this
01:47is not the time to show it back. I remember all that. We had a great celebration.
02:00I was never a fan of, I'll be very honest, I was never a fan of a commentary because
02:04I used to always believe that we have to work double harder than a cricketer. We have to
02:08wake up before the cricketer. We have to be awake even after the team goes off the ground.
02:14So it's a lot of hard work, but I somehow enjoy it. We got different, different variations.
02:19So we have the proper expert commentary. Then we have this for Gen Zs. Even my kids enjoy
02:24it. My kids were not really watching my post shows and stuff. But in this team, we are
02:29we talk about the players, not in a very serious way, but there is enough expert comments as well.
02:38It's not pressure. It only should give you to think better and positive thoughts rather
02:42than negative thoughts. I think they should enjoy this situation, which so-called pressure
02:47situations, because that is because people love you and people expect the best from you.
02:52Nothing less than the very best from you. Be yourself, enjoy being there, express yourself,
02:58winning and losing is a part of it, but then make great memories. And if you are at your best,
03:03the kind of team we have, I think we don't have to worry about the rest.