He was in the India squad for the 2024 T20 World Cup, but there was a time when his career wasn’t progressing. In this old chat, Surya Kumar Yadav recalls the tough times.
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00:00He looked at me straightly and said,
00:02you will play today.
00:03I said, okay, why are you scaring me?
00:06Calm down. Come to the pool.
00:07He said, come to the pool.
00:09Not just you, me, all your fans, everybody was saying,
00:12boss, give him the India cap.
00:15Give him the India cap. What are you doing?
00:17I mean, now he is giving it.
00:18It's right that he has gone ahead. Give it.
00:21Because I can imagine you'd be a little disappointed, right?
00:24Because all the runs are coming.
00:27All the shots are being taken.
00:28All the people are saying that it should happen.
00:30Still, you haven't got it yet.
00:32When the IPL started and when it was going on,
00:35then a tour came.
00:37Two or three spots were announced.
00:39And I was not there.
00:40I mean, I was hearing it from the rest of the people.
00:43People kept talking on the side,
00:44that you will be there, you will be there.
00:46And if I didn't come, then you're thinking,
00:49how did it happen?
00:50It was going well for the last two years.
00:53It feels like, what should I do now?
00:55So, he also asked me that he is disappointed.
01:00I said, what should I say now?
01:02You can understand it by looking at it.
01:04You must be feeling it too.
01:06Then the match came.
01:07At the time of the match, Zaheer Khan and Mahela Jaiwardhan
01:12explained it to me very well.
01:13I said, I think this is the perfect opportunity for you.
01:15Here, show everyone what you have got.
01:18Yeah.
01:19I said, okay.
01:21But still, I was thinking in my mind that
01:24you keep thinking about the human tendency,
01:26how to do it, how to do it.
01:27But it was good that the fielding came first.
01:30So, gradually, the rush of blood has reduced.
01:33Adrenaline was very easy.
01:35I wasn't thinking too much.
01:36Everything was going on its own, in motion, as it should be.
01:39The target came, the situation came.
01:42I said, boss, this is the time.
01:44If I run here, then everything will fall in place.
01:49It happened as it was.
01:50And then, we won the match and everything was like,
01:53we turned around and sat on the dressing room side.
01:56The family members were sitting upstairs.
01:58We looked at them and said, boss, I am here.
02:01Don't worry.
02:02Nice.
02:03It was very instinctive.
02:05I didn't think that I will win or do this or that.
02:08We turned around and looked at the dressing room side.
02:10I didn't think too much.
02:13Whatever came to my mind at that time.
02:14The last breath I took after the match,
02:17that was proper satisfaction.
02:20So, then, after such a long wait,
02:21when you got the India's Cup, when the name was announced,
02:24can you describe what the feeling was at that time?
02:28Actually, I closed the door and sat alone in the room
02:31for 5-10 minutes.
02:32I pinched myself.
02:34I even gave myself a slap.
02:36I said, is this really real?
02:39Then, I called everyone at home.
02:41I mean, I called everyone at once.
02:42Mom, dad, sister and wife.
02:44To talk.
02:46So, obviously, they were crying.
02:48So, I said, okay, it's an emotional moment.
02:50Okay, but try to sing a little bit.
02:53Yes, but that 5-10 minute moment,
02:57after closing my eyes, I started remembering everything.
02:59What I did in the last 4-5 years.
03:03I mean, the places where I had to show my discipline.
03:06I started remembering all those places.
03:08And when you got the cap, who gave it to you?
03:11Actually, Ravi sir gave me the cap.
03:13He called me first.
03:14He told me in the afternoon.
03:16He called me in the afternoon and sat by the poolside.
03:19When he called me, I started feeling that today is a special day.
03:22Yes.
03:23Come down. Come to the pool.
03:24Come to the pool.
03:25He called me and I said, okay, sir.
03:27So, when I went down, I looked straight at him.
03:31You will play today.
03:33I said, okay, sir. Why are you scaring me?