Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep talks about IPL 2021, Virat Kohli, and RCB defeat

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Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep, who is in the UAE to enjoy the IPL 2021, witnessed his favourite team Royal Challengers Bangalore’s get crushed by Kolkota Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi on September 20. The RCB support talks about his favourite team's inglorious defeat in Abu Dhabi.  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #IPL2020 #Dubai

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00:00I'm very excited you are here for the IPL games, because I think it feels like a long

00:07time since anything exciting happened in the world of sporting, I suppose. So how has it

00:12been so far?

00:13Happening, yes, it has happened last time in the second, just a little earlier to the

00:17second wave. But then since crowd weren't allowed inside, I guess for the crowd, from

00:22the crowds per se, I think this is something exciting happening after long. Feels like

00:28a decade though.

00:29I know you are very sporting in general, even when it comes to your movies as well. Yesterday

00:33your tweet was a very telling one. Do you win some to lose some when you look at the

00:38RCB match last night?

00:39See, go back to the history in a couple of years back, few years, not couple of years

00:44back, from last season to a couple of years, if you see RCB is way ahead of their own performances

00:52and they are right now in the number three position. And if you see all the first three,

00:57they are all in the equities of number of matches, number of victories, number of losses.

01:04Only place where, only the spot where we are lacking behind is the run rate. Apart from

01:08that everything looks the same though. So I guess there is a lot of positive approach

01:14towards the game from RCB and the way they have operated with their selections of the

01:18team and the strategies. See, one victory, I mean, like suppose there are, like let's

01:26say there are two countries having a war. And if your country just happens to have a

01:31bad day in the war, you mean to say you lose your loyalty towards your country or you start

01:37disbelieving, what is it?

01:39Yeah, true.

01:40So why is it that, you know, when it comes to your personal life, you have this, we all

01:45have this philosophy, we lose, it's okay, it's a bad day. And when it is a country,

01:50it's sports, you know, we just bounce on them and say like as though they are all just criminals.

01:54I think they are the heroes, that's why they are there and we are sitting in the spectators

01:58gallery and watching. And if they were not what they are, we will be there in the centre

02:03and they probably would be sitting and watching us. So every hero, even as an actor, we all

02:08have our flops. Does that mean fans say that we are done or what is it?

02:13Why are we literally holding a, what do you say, one imaginary stone in our hand every

02:20time we are watching a match? Ready to stone. No, I don't think so, I don't think so. It's

02:25a game by the end of the day, they are doing, it's just that, you know, the other team played

02:28extremely well yesterday. Come on, give some credit, they are also our team, they all belong,

02:33many of them belong to India. So it's nice. There should be competitiveness and I think

02:39people should perform and it's because IPL is doing well and all the teams are playing

02:43well, we are getting many good players for the country. So I think yesterday, like for

02:48example, Prasidh who took the wicket of, Prasidhi who took the wicket of Virat Kohli in his

02:53very first over comes from Karnataka. Now we are supposed to clap, we are supposed to

02:59feel sad, what is it? There is another newcomer coming up who is going to, I am sure Virat

03:04will be also a happy man to see that there is a good bowler who deceived him, who is

03:10considered as one of the world's best batsmen. So there is a life there, out there and there

03:14is always a positive side to it. Right, and speaking of Virat, who do you think should

03:18take the crown now? He is such a legend, so what do you think? Just your playing favourites,

03:24you can, like who do you think? No, I have no idea about that, see, like for example

03:28when Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given the captaincy, everybody least expected him to take over

03:32the cap. So anything can happen here. But I am happy because, see, our country definitely

03:39needs Virat Kohli in his topmost form all the time. At least that is what we all hope

03:45so. And I think coming down from a responsibility, I am sure he knows what he is doing and it

03:52is for the betterment of his own game and I think that is the best. And whoever owns

03:57the cap, I think they will do better. It is not an easy task. Definitely, because now

04:02they have experienced Virat also there. See, now let us presume whoever the captain is,

04:09can you just look at the squad? He has so many wonderful players under him playing and

04:14I think that will be the, this is the best side somebody can have, can do a captaincy,

04:18you know. Right, right, right. Who are your favourite players, you know, not in RCB alone,

04:25across the board, who do you root for the whole time? Your absolute favourite players.

04:31I have always been a fan of Dhoni and so it is always there, I think everybody are. So

04:37it is not anything to do with IPL, it is on the country per se, when you see and I think

04:42probably he is one of the rare people who, from the ground when I was seated there, I

04:46have also clapped, shouted, whistled. Of course, whistling not in a great way, because I do

04:51not know how to whistle though. Of course, even the World Cup is coming up, so are you

04:55really anticipating, do you think it is a big deal as well? I think people say that

05:00is the real deal, you know. Nothing is a deal. See, if you are a cricket lover, it is a cricket

05:04by the end of the day. I think I am so happy, forget the World Cup and other things, I am

05:08so happy that people have started enjoying Test match of late and there are results coming

05:12out of every Test match and I think I am a great Test match fan too. I think, just when

05:17you come and sit there, see, many, a couple of years back, for a Test match, I do not

05:23think we would switch on the television, probably just hear the news by the end of the day,

05:26what is the total today. But I guess there is a small change in their whole approach

05:31and which even their jerseys reflected. Now, they have this slight black border to it and

05:38a number to it and not little more, they realised just plain white was not working. It is just

05:44a small tweaking with it. But it is looking nice and I think the present players approach

05:49is they are not ready to go back home with just a draw. We do not mind losing, but let

05:55us have a result. That is their approach and I guess that is what is giving every Test

05:59match a result now. And that is making it interesting for us to watch their approach,

06:04their aggressiveness and their five days also, no less in their spirits, irrelevant to the

06:10weather conditions they are playing in at times. Because India recently when they went

06:15to England, see, it is too cold. We are not used to such things, but it is too cold. But

06:20I guess that fire in them keeps them going and you can imagine their fitness levels.

06:26If we, coming from our country, can go and play in that weather, that cold and still

06:31no muscle tear and everything and catches and everything, I think they are fabulous

06:35in their physical fitness and I think that team is giving a lot of look into it. So,

06:40World Cup you are talking. See, for me, World Cup, any World Cup is very interesting because

06:46you get to see all the countries there trying to take the cup, trying to stamp their talents

06:55and victory over the other. See, as an Indian cricketer, everybody's main match will be

07:03India-Pakistan match. Whatever is said and done, I don't know why, but there is always

07:07that fire and thing and it is happening. Just yesterday, day before yesterday, we were speaking

07:13and they were giving a date that this is the date it will be happening and I was like trying

07:17to figure it out and I said that one day I have to come and see the match live and go

07:22back. The last match I saw India-Pakistan was when I was in, I think, early college.

07:33It was a World Cup again, college or school, I don't remember, where Venkatesh Prasad,

07:40Sohail showed the bat and then Venkatesh Prasad took the next ball wicket. I think that was

07:45the last match I saw live. I have not seen after that India-Pakistan match. I guess this

07:50is one after many, many years. It calls for a kind of like, leave everything. What do

07:55you want actually? You want to go to the ground to see that? That nail-biting finishing and

07:59especially the country which always gives that competition. It brings out the best in

08:04us also and it brings out the best in them also. So, I guess there is that extra pace

08:08in the bowlers, extra shots, extra fire. Even among the audiences, normally we are such

08:14good people generally. I mean, we have such amazing friends. On that day, not so much.

08:19You know, I guess, see, they will clap for everything. It is not that. But it has got

08:24nothing to do in the personal relationship with anyone, any of these parts of the country

08:29here. It is just the sport. On the sport, it is always there. Like when we had CCL,

08:34when we were playing CCL and there was always this Karnataka and Tamil. Chennai Rhinos and

08:40Karnataka Bulldogs. Whenever this match used to happen, other players, other states also

08:45used to sit and watch like watch because we were hooked on to it. Everybody, the moment

08:50you cross that rope, we were all like, we just wanted the ball to go through them, you

08:56know. It's not even get them out. It was that kind of a feeling we used to have against

08:59each other. But then we were all friends. By the end of the day, we had party together.

09:03But that will be there. So, that one thing I am looking forward to, the World Cup.

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