In our inaugural episode of the 2022 season, we speak to the engine of the Royals rollercoaster. Someone who ensures the team comes together even before they step on the field. He is the Rajasthan Royals Team Manager, Romi Bhinder.
Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzi Chahal and Shimron Hetmyer sit down with Romi in a fun and candid conversation, as they try to unravel the mystery behind - what does a team manager exactly do?
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Speaker 1: Sandra.
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Speaker 1: Hi hello and welcome to the Royals podcast. The Royals
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Speaker 1: podcast will be everything related to Rajasthan Royals for the
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Speaker 1: year 2022.
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Speaker 1: Clearly there is no visuals to the particular podcast but
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Speaker 1: I've got some very interesting personalities joining me on the
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Speaker 1: first podcast.
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Speaker 1: 1's nervous and the other one's got no airs about
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Speaker 1: him
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Speaker 1: and the final person is just laughing, looking into me
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Speaker 1: as to how I'm going to put him on the spot.
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Speaker 1: But today's episode, the title of the episode will be
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Speaker 1: the manager, so obviously the manager needs to be here.
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Speaker 1: I'm joined by
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Speaker 1: Ted Mayer who is not the manager. He's all the
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Speaker 1: way from caribbean. His nickname is cookie. He'll be joining
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Speaker 1: you want to say hi, hi, hi guys. And the
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Speaker 1: other personality who will be joining me is used when
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Speaker 1: Rachelle who's been on red hot form so far. So
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Speaker 1: good this season. Welcome on the show. You thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you. Hi guys using this side. And finally the
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Speaker 1: most important personality as I said in the title, the
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Speaker 1: hero always comes late but never the last.
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Speaker 1: So the important personality, the engine room of the Rajasthan
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Speaker 1: Royals cricket team ever since the inception, he's gone here
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Speaker 1: and there. But Rajasthan Royals is very, very dear to him.
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Speaker 1: Welcome on the show. Mr Romey binder. It's an absolute
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Speaker 1: honor to have you on the show and you've been
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Speaker 1: amazing so far for me.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you very much
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Speaker 2: but I'm very, very nervous this time because
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Speaker 2: one side, I have a cookie and the other side
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Speaker 2: is having a
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Speaker 2: king of spin
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Speaker 2: and then you are there. I'm very scared.
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Speaker 1: You better be scared. Okay, before, before we talk in
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Speaker 1: detail about you, there's a lot of stories that Rome
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Speaker 1: is going to share with us, I'm sure. But before
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Speaker 1: that we'll start with you, even though he's he's a spinner,
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Speaker 1: comes a little later in the attack, but today he'll
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Speaker 1: be first up to go, you see your experience of
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Speaker 1: the manager,
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Speaker 1: Romy binder,
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Speaker 1: my experiences or maybe it's like the same body.
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Speaker 1: But
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Speaker 2: yeah, that's that's that's good compliment for me.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Just before just check, check on, wait, wait check guys,
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Speaker 1: can you both share with your weight on the weighing
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Speaker 1: scale
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Speaker 2: 63 now,
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Speaker 1: 60 60. Okay. You need to catch up three kg
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Speaker 1: or you need to radio three kg keep going easy.
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Speaker 1: So when I met the first time, I think 2009
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Speaker 1: Parliament ground first time we met and my first season
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Speaker 1: for the Haryana Ranji Trophy.
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Speaker 1: So him and came to see him because I bowled
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Speaker 1: well on that match. And then after that
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Speaker 1: My journey starts with the western border in 2010
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Speaker 1: Because uh they asked me to come further some camp
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Speaker 1: panel and they we tried like to be played by
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Speaker 1: budget tournament and I was on top 30 players. But
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Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to come on. The main team.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Romania. You couldn't come into the main team.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to Namibia. Is that right? It's like we want
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Speaker 1: you to more mature now
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Speaker 2: now you get to know what the team manager called. Somebody.
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Speaker 2: Somebody had to blame. Not the head coach or the
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Speaker 2: owner manager Manager.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's true.
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Speaker 1: That's true. Everybody has come and gone. But Romy has
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Speaker 1: been on, let's find out from Eddie. This is the
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Speaker 1: first time you're seeing Romy. Have you worked with him
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Speaker 1: before your experiences so far?
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Speaker 1: This is the first time I worked with him to
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Speaker 1: be honest. Um It's been really good. A nice manager,
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Speaker 1: nice guy. Someone, I could always miss that. Always messages
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Speaker 1: me just to make sure I'm on the bus. Even
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Speaker 1: when he left me the other day. That's probably the
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Speaker 1: only time he messaged me but that's fine. Other than
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Speaker 1: that he's I think he's a really good person and
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Speaker 1: a really really good manager. Love him. Okay. He's a
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Speaker 1: really good person and lovely man. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: from the outside know what the role of our coaches.
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Speaker 1: Uh you see you know the role of the coach. Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people on the outside will know the
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Speaker 1: role of the players. The captain,
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Speaker 1: the mass of the physiotherapist, the trainer, but hardly anything
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Speaker 1: about the manager. Can you just tell us something about
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Speaker 1: what the manager,
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Speaker 2: thank you very much for the very great introduction and
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Speaker 2: thank you cookie for telling me about the story about
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Speaker 2: leaving you behind and not taking it for the for
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Speaker 2: the practice. But
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Speaker 2: this is the rule
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Speaker 2: whenever if somebody's blaming someone? So there has to be
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Speaker 2: some person in the franchise because
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Speaker 2: as you know, you can't blame owners because you're getting
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Speaker 2: paid from that and also the coaches if you're getting
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Speaker 2: dropped or something in the next match, you're not playing.
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Speaker 2: So you can't ask coaches why I'm not playing. So
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Speaker 2: it should be the manager and you you have to
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Speaker 2: go there and cry and crip. That's my job
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Speaker 1: basically. Can we say you're the mummy of the deep?
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Speaker 2: Yeah I can't I can't say mommy different gender. Mummy
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Speaker 1: is an emotion. It's not a gender any which way
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Speaker 1: is
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: This is supposed to be the engine room of an I. P. L.
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Speaker 1: Team and we look at what we're talking about. We're
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Speaker 1: talking about mummies daddies. Many daddies, emotional
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Speaker 2: boston foreigner. Boss, indian. Boss. The boss. The owner boss.
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Speaker 2: There are a lot of titles are there?
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Speaker 1: Just in case, just in case people are wondering, I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he'll be on the podcast sometime. Or the other
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Speaker 1: eight E. R. A. T raja money. Probably the trainer
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Speaker 1: of the Rajasthan Royals team is what was referring to. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Just moving on from from the manager back to Katie. Ok.
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Speaker 1: You're traveling down from Caribbean to play the I. P. L.
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Speaker 1: When when did you receive a call from Rome even
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Speaker 1: though what are the what are the things that he needed?
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Speaker 1: He needed? he needed to arrange for you? Um, we
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Speaker 1: did talk a little bit about how a nice man
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Speaker 1: he is, but there are some things that he needs
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Speaker 1: to put together for you. Right?
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Speaker 1: When, when I left, when I was a count today
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Speaker 1: basically I had asked for, let me see,
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Speaker 2: I think you was asking for the pantone color for
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Speaker 2: your hairs as well.
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Speaker 2: He was asking.
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Speaker 1: So you went to the hair studio called the manager
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Speaker 1: of the team and asked him which shade of Pantheon
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Speaker 1: that you need to wear. Is that right? My wife,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't. So I made sure before she gets it done,
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Speaker 1: I spoke to him first and he said
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Speaker 1: there's, this is okay fabulous.
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Speaker 1: So I went there,
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Speaker 1: I went to right okay. Coming back to uh how
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Speaker 1: difficult it will be to run the entire operations through
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Speaker 1: the year. You stay next to my room. Your room
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Speaker 1: is always open. You're never inside the room. What do you,
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Speaker 1: what do you do every time I come inside the
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Speaker 1: room and say goodbye,
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Speaker 1: there's absolute silence. Then I come inside the bedroom and
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Speaker 1: say boy, there's stillness. There is no one there. So
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Speaker 1: what do you do? Why do you need a room?
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Speaker 2: I just, I just use the room for going to
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Speaker 2: the washroom and the shower. That's all because like you said,
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Speaker 2: I'm engine, basically I'm not an engine. I'm just a
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Speaker 2: wheel stuff because I'm always on a wheel
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Speaker 2: because these people
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Speaker 2: around us, make sure that I don't use my room,
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Speaker 1: they make sure that they keep you on your toes
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Speaker 1: and you're always busy.
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Speaker 1: The question to you now is going to be all
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Speaker 1: the way from caribbean. There is this whole connect with
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Speaker 1: the caribbean flavors coming into the I. P. L. Right?
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Speaker 1: There are so many people that come in from the
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Speaker 1: caribbean to play the I. P. L. And Romy has
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Speaker 1: always told me that it's been very, very difficult to
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Speaker 1: communicate with you guys in terms of asking you your
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Speaker 1: needs
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Speaker 1: when he speaks with you, speaks with you guys and
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Speaker 1: the demands are always very high. The demands are always very,
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Speaker 1: very high. And you said he sent you a wrong
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Speaker 1: t shirt. He in fact sent to the t shirt
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Speaker 1: with an intention to tell you that you need to
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Speaker 1: be medium by the time you're in the I PS
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Speaker 2: now you've got, you've got to know about the manager's role.
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Speaker 2: That means whenever, even even at the park podcast, if
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Speaker 2: somebody has to be blamed, it has to be manager. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm not blaming
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Speaker 1: you at all.
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Speaker 1: No, it's fine. I'm not that demanding to be honest,
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Speaker 1: I'm just like, I just like to be like, most
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Speaker 1: times I'm by myself in my room, relaxing playing music
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So it's mostly
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Speaker 1: not I'm not really someone that comes out as as
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Speaker 1: much as probably this, this is probably the
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Speaker 1: the first year that have actually been out of my
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Speaker 1: room as much because it's so it's really comfortable here
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Speaker 1: and I know a lot of people around and so on.
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Speaker 1: So it's a little bit more comfortable for me here.
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Speaker 1: So that's why you would see me around just a
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Speaker 1: little bit more than you would have probably last year
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Speaker 1: when we were in Delhi.
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Speaker 1: So
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Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it here. So that's why you that's
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Speaker 1: why you're seeing me so much. And then there's
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Speaker 1: there is him to the left which is not rumi
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Speaker 1: which is used with the child. What makes them funny?
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Speaker 1: What makes him stand out? What does he do? Not
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Speaker 1: funny is disgusting. Regardless of even if I'm in my room,
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Speaker 1: he'll find a way to get me out of my room.
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Speaker 1: He'll message me or knock on the door or something.
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Speaker 1: Are you both neighbors?
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Speaker 1: No, he's that's not that's the thing. He's far
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Speaker 2: but
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Speaker 1: he always comes and knocks somebody. Well he's like a
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Speaker 1: really really good friend of mine from from the first
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Speaker 1: time that I played I pl to know he's always
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Speaker 1: been a good friend of mine and even when I
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Speaker 1: played against him again when he played against India, I
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Speaker 1: didn't really know him then. But we were we had
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Speaker 1: a friendship from since then and he's like now we're
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Speaker 1: basically brothers, he says, which is he says that, do
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Speaker 1: you agree? Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 1: I usually just moving on from your interests beyond cricket
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Speaker 1: which is chess.
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Speaker 1: We have a small chess club inside the Rajasthan Royals team. Right?
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Speaker 1: We have a few players who play chess. Okay. Are
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Speaker 1: a few players who at least try to play chess.
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Speaker 1: So how's it been? Have you enjoyed those chess players?
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Speaker 1: Did you have them in the previous teams as well?
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Speaker 1: How are you enjoying it? I'm happy they're playing. But
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Speaker 1: they pretend they know how to play chess. They don't
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Speaker 1: know how to play. But I'm really enjoying like at
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Speaker 1: least because the chess is the game who give you patience.
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Speaker 1: The son learned from the chest. Like it was
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Speaker 1: when I used to play on the one game for
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Speaker 1: 77 hours and that's I learned from the chest because
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Speaker 1: sometimes you're pulling so well and you're not getting that
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Speaker 1: you have to be patient, you will get seven hours
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Speaker 1: in front of the chest for that person. So the
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Speaker 1: game when I played my first
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Speaker 2: Game We went for seven
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Speaker 1: hours is that why is that why you ran yourself
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Speaker 1: out at raj court when you played the test match?
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Speaker 1: Have you seen that run out by the way?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that. Which 1? Yes
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Speaker 1: correctly. He did the middle straight to do and he
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Speaker 1: just kept running just literally came to the stumps and
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Speaker 1: knocked it over. He was run out by character where
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Speaker 1: I was saying sam
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Speaker 2: but I I would like to add here because as
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Speaker 2: I met a lot of caribbean players in Rajasthan Royals,
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Speaker 2: they are very like he said they're not demanding, but
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Speaker 2: once they want something they want
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Speaker 2: Next one minute it has to be reached.
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Speaker 2: And after that they don't want the next one month,
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Speaker 2: they don't want anything. Even in fact you don't know
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Speaker 2: whether they are in their team or not.
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Speaker 2: So that's that silence will be there. So everybody was
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Speaker 2: asking about what is my job and all that. So
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of things, there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of secrets. There are a lot of juggling I have
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Speaker 2: to do sometimes if somebody's saying I wanted like usually
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Speaker 2: also he said you have to bring the stuff
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Speaker 2: but don't bring in front of my wife. But yesterday
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Speaker 2: is it?
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Speaker 2: So you bring it, I said why your wife is there?
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Speaker 2: He said no, no. I told her if I told
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Speaker 2: her why you're telling me after three years before, don't
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Speaker 2: tell her. So these kind of things. Even mommy can't
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Speaker 2: do this. I think that's why I asked you, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if somebody asked me what is your rule.
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Speaker 2: I never understand what is my role was here. You guys,
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Speaker 2: you guys have a better role.
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Speaker 2: You guys are playing with me. It
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Speaker 1: that is a very deadly relationship. Let's not even go there.
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Speaker 1: But you said you know your job, your job clearly
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Speaker 1: isn't very easy, I can see that. So
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Speaker 2: it
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Speaker 1: isn't very easy and it isn't very
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Speaker 2: it's very simple.
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Speaker 1: Right? Okay. So for how long have you been doing this?
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Speaker 1: My role of a manager
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Speaker 2: started
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Speaker 2: Working with people in 2008
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Speaker 2: 1st season. But at that time as a logistics manager
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Speaker 2: but mother the team manager was there. They always gave
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Speaker 2: me the opportunity to
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Speaker 2: to be in front and they were doing all the
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Speaker 2: our technical and paperworks and I was doing the actual
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Speaker 2: logistics and managing the place. So that's what I got
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Speaker 2: a great experience working with legends like Shane warne
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Speaker 2: then Cooper Cooper. One guy was there. He never appeared
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Speaker 2: for the for the team meeting every time we have
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Speaker 2: to tell him there's a meeting and one day we
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Speaker 2: went to the list delete for the match against Diddy.
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Speaker 2: He said, where's my kid back? I forget my kid back. Then.
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Speaker 2: I send my largest guy, get the kid back back to.
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Speaker 1: So Heady. Has this happened with you ever?
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Speaker 1: Are you forgetful as kevin cooper? Not necessarily back. So
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Speaker 1: what have you forgotten going for a game? What's the
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Speaker 1: what's the
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Speaker 1: in the most incredible thing that you have forgotten as
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Speaker 1: you went
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Speaker 1: pants? Okay, jacket or pants for
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Speaker 2: the for the appeal. It's very big thing because as
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Speaker 2: a logistically you can't get that on time. And as
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Speaker 2: I peel rules you have to wear that official clothing
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Speaker 2: otherwise you'll be fine
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Speaker 2: and get in that traffic in India go back to
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Speaker 2: the hotel and get the stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's really
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Speaker 2: testing the manager's skills and the driver who's trying to bring.
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Speaker 2: So it's like very difficult, which is, which seems it's
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Speaker 2: very easy. But from that we got the lesson from
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Speaker 2: that episode
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Speaker 2: we are carrying one extra clothes offset because one very
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Speaker 2: prominent indian player
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Speaker 2: if playing against in and or you forget this T shirt.
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Speaker 2: So he, we get him another T shirt with
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Speaker 2: the jonny step always not on the, wherever you actually
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Speaker 2: require some time. It is on the, on the T
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Speaker 2: shirt that we used a condom covered.
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Speaker 1: All that people need to do is now go back
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Speaker 1: and see your game and indoor Rajasthan Royals played with
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Speaker 1: somebody who stepped it and you will know the popular
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Speaker 1: indian cricketer. Those who find please leave it in the
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Speaker 1: instagram comment section of the Rajasthan Royals
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Speaker 1: Page. It's time to move on to you Cuz things.
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Speaker 1: Forgotten stories with the manager. Any interesting good story in
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Speaker 1: your experience. The first time I forget when I was
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Speaker 1: in our 7014 today.
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Speaker 1: So we are sharing room me and her shell. So
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Speaker 1: I always told them this and I don't need your
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Speaker 1: sharing rooms then in 2014 14 1st off. So my roommate.
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Speaker 1: So I don't listen, I don't want to make it back,
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Speaker 1: just keep it outside
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Speaker 1: and the first match, second match against Mumbai. I went
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Speaker 1: to the stadium and I'm asking where's my kid back
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Speaker 1: there searching. They are searching and after half an hour
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Speaker 1: they called the hotel. There's one kid back in there
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Speaker 1: in the room, they said yes and it's my kid back.
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Speaker 1: But I mean my shoes are there
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Speaker 2: mass tomorrow
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Speaker 2: csk against ow
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Speaker 2: so what's in the bag? Open embarrassment
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Speaker 2: police Corange Karaki,
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Speaker 2: we will be starting.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Well logistics issue there
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Speaker 1: obviously this coach coach jurisdiction many at that, but the
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Speaker 1: only way uh Abney cocky, I'm like the man friday
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Speaker 1: or the mummy of the team.
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Speaker 1: So there are 24, cricketers in your squad and beyond
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Speaker 1: that support staff be right there.
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Speaker 1: So how do you manage these people? Is it like
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Speaker 1: you divide them, okay, these four or five guys, you
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Speaker 1: take care of these four or five guys, You take
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Speaker 1: care and how do you, is it, is it only
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Speaker 1: about doing things bags this and that or it's also
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Speaker 1: about an emotional connect.
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Speaker 2: It is firstly very important that you have to be
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Speaker 2: passionate about the game
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Speaker 2: so that it becomes easy
00:16:28
Speaker 2: and if someone is very passionate and very passionate about the,
00:16:32
Speaker 2: about the game and the players
00:16:34
Speaker 2: and if you feel you don't have to, you don't
00:16:36
Speaker 2: have to see that if you've played international who's a
00:16:39
Speaker 2: big name, you have to treat everyone equally. That's, that's
00:16:42
Speaker 2: all we started in Rajasthan Royal working on those lines.
00:16:46
Speaker 2: So that's why my whole entire team like Vikram harsh
00:16:49
Speaker 2: shells for me, there are a lot of another support
00:16:51
Speaker 2: team with me.
00:16:52
Speaker 2: So those people are always understand the ethos and always
00:16:56
Speaker 2: understand the importance of the our job. So that's why
00:16:59
Speaker 2: my role become very easy, just delegating things and getting
00:17:02
Speaker 2: that done
00:17:03
Speaker 1: in case people are wondering what we're all doing. It's
00:17:05
Speaker 1: the Royals podcast. The manager is the first episode and
00:17:09
Speaker 1: obviously it's me Ashwin hosting the show and you've got
00:17:11
Speaker 1: to admire
00:17:13
Speaker 1: and Romeo binder on the show. Now it's moving, it's
00:17:14
Speaker 1: time to move on to you see
00:17:16
Speaker 1: you have encountered your fair share of managers who has
00:17:19
Speaker 1: been your favorite manager so far.
00:17:21
Speaker 1: Romy bender apart
00:17:22
Speaker 1: because I worked with the two teams only but he's
00:17:25
Speaker 1: already is like it's my favorite from long time back
00:17:28
Speaker 1: because when I played for the team you always talk
00:17:31
Speaker 1: to me like message me when I would perform and
00:17:33
Speaker 1: on and when some mystery there because current because he
00:17:38
Speaker 1: was working with the indian team and on
00:17:39
Speaker 1: and so I remember I
00:17:42
Speaker 1: your manager Carolina. It's very unforgiving. Yeah, sub sub local
00:17:46
Speaker 1: aic expectations, yoga yoga, just example of pickets,
00:17:51
Speaker 1: how difficult is it to satisfy players required.
00:17:54
Speaker 2: It's very difficult because that time at the time of
00:17:57
Speaker 2: the match you have different emotions going on and I
00:18:00
Speaker 2: can understand sometimes there's our relatives and friends
00:18:04
Speaker 2: whom you actually wanted to give. So I always discussed
00:18:08
Speaker 2: these issues with the management rather than a place because
00:18:11
Speaker 2: according to me
00:18:13
Speaker 2: those people who are there to watch you guys are
00:18:16
Speaker 2: more important because they sacrificed a lot to get you
00:18:18
Speaker 2: there
00:18:19
Speaker 2: rather than we are giving. I know that sponsors are
00:18:22
Speaker 2: very important for us and but there are a lot
00:18:25
Speaker 2: of friends, circle of the owners and all those are
00:18:28
Speaker 2: very important for the owners. But I always go to
00:18:30
Speaker 2: my management. I always
00:18:32
Speaker 2: try to make them understand that players family and friends
00:18:37
Speaker 2: who really wanted them to be there and they sacrificed
00:18:40
Speaker 2: a lot like you C C M. S Dhoni's movie
00:18:43
Speaker 2: and even prevent Tambor's movie you can see those people
00:18:47
Speaker 2: who are in the background
00:18:49
Speaker 2: according to me we were when we were playing we
00:18:51
Speaker 2: were enjoying the most but those people are suffering
00:18:54
Speaker 2: and those people are actually sacrificing a lot. According to
00:18:57
Speaker 2: me those people do deserve the best seats
00:19:00
Speaker 2: and the best opportunity to see and enjoy the game.
00:19:03
Speaker 2: So that's why I try to do that. But there
00:19:05
Speaker 2: are a couple of players
00:19:07
Speaker 2: Who always keep every match you can't be you know
00:19:10
Speaker 2: just you know you have to look after one player
00:19:12
Speaker 2: but rather than there are 24 players and sometimes not
00:19:15
Speaker 2: playing
00:19:16
Speaker 2: so more of a manager and mommy you have to
00:19:19
Speaker 2: be very safe. We have to be very diplomatically managed that.
00:19:23
Speaker 2: And plus I have to be a great psychologist at
00:19:25
Speaker 2: that time you have to understand what is going on
00:19:28
Speaker 2: in their head and if somebody's creeping there's some problems issues.
00:19:32
Speaker 2: So you always have and always keep talking to my team.
00:19:35
Speaker 2: If somebody was something was going wrong with some certain
00:19:38
Speaker 2: place
00:19:38
Speaker 2: I go there and tell them this particular player don't
00:19:42
Speaker 2: next one week, don't mess around with anything because something
00:19:45
Speaker 2: is going
00:19:46
Speaker 2: around
00:19:47
Speaker 2: sometimes then that time you have to be very careful
00:19:56
Speaker 2: for a try challenging. But again, I'm telling you being
00:20:01
Speaker 2: with this bunch of the players and the legends of
00:20:04
Speaker 2: the game. It's very good also because
00:20:17
Speaker 2: it was very amazing to see you guys and especially
00:20:21
Speaker 2: you expect something and and when you meet actually that
00:20:24
Speaker 2: person is very different starting with the head even here
00:20:28
Speaker 2: I was after the auction when I sent him a
00:20:30
Speaker 2: message
00:20:31
Speaker 2: we got very, we got connected very easily. I got
00:20:34
Speaker 2: a number from Monte decides your batting coach of west Indies.
00:20:37
Speaker 2: He told me about you that he's really good if
00:20:42
Speaker 2: somebody can manage him properly. He's the best teammate
00:20:45
Speaker 2: and I think that everybody knows that now that he
00:20:50
Speaker 2: interacted with the team and always in the team meetings,
00:20:53
Speaker 2: he talked a lot and very sensible. But after that
00:20:56
Speaker 2: he's just putting his music on and he's happy with himself.
00:21:00
Speaker 2: So that's what the you know different characters are there
00:21:02
Speaker 2: and I think we all are blessed to have
00:21:05
Speaker 2: those kind of people like Germany and instagram and
00:21:10
Speaker 1: her family before it's been a great miss that we
00:21:13
Speaker 1: don't have raja money and santiago on the podcast. We'll
00:21:16
Speaker 1: have them, we will have them soon enough. Anyway when
00:21:20
Speaker 1: there is something nice
00:21:21
Speaker 1: there is also something that pulls you down, right? There
00:21:22
Speaker 1: is two sets. You said that you did character analysis
00:21:25
Speaker 1: and all that. So who's been over the years all
00:21:28
Speaker 1: these years? It's almost been like 1.5 decades.
00:21:31
Speaker 1: Who has been one of the players that you have
00:21:33
Speaker 1: enjoyed working with? It's been an absolute pleasure. They say
00:21:36
Speaker 1: right at the end of every speech it's been a
00:21:38
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. It's been a pleasure working with you.
00:21:41
Speaker 1: Has there been any one particular player
00:21:44
Speaker 2: I enjoyed working with
00:21:46
Speaker 2: Shane Watson
00:21:48
Speaker 2: right after that josh Butler
00:21:50
Speaker 2: because those people are always they can
00:21:53
Speaker 2: the importance is very, very self managed and very, very
00:21:56
Speaker 2: professional
00:21:58
Speaker 2: and because I I worked with them more than a
00:22:00
Speaker 2: year like
00:22:01
Speaker 2: of the but with Butler this is my 4th year.
00:22:04
Speaker 2: And with
00:22:05
Speaker 2: Watson, I worked for six years. So the way they are,
00:22:08
Speaker 2: they were thinking not only about themselves and their their
00:22:12
Speaker 2: own performances but the team and the fellow place you
00:22:15
Speaker 2: can't even imagine they keep asking me how the other
00:22:18
Speaker 2: places are, what they're thinking is there anything I can
00:22:21
Speaker 2: do for them.
00:22:22
Speaker 2: So those kinds of things. I think it's very important
00:22:25
Speaker 2: for the team when
00:22:26
Speaker 2: professional players and especially a couple of players who is
00:22:29
Speaker 2: coming from
00:22:31
Speaker 2: overseas and they're thinking about the domestic players who we
00:22:35
Speaker 2: just we bought new and we're having the first year
00:22:38
Speaker 2: in the I. P. L.
00:22:40
Speaker 2: And giving them a bags giving them shoot whatever they
00:22:43
Speaker 2: want from their side. In fact steve smith used to
00:22:46
Speaker 2: give the bags to the youngsters.
00:22:48
Speaker 2: So that that's what
00:22:50
Speaker 2: it makes me feel special having those players because cricket
00:22:55
Speaker 2: is actually known for this kind of
00:22:58
Speaker 2: acts when players are taking care of the fellow players.
00:23:02
Speaker 2: This is actually they leave their legacy.
00:23:05
Speaker 1: Right okay. Cricket cricket has been a very integral part
00:23:07
Speaker 1: of all three of us hit cuz and I mean
00:23:10
Speaker 1: it's clearly changed our lives for the better.
00:23:14
Speaker 1: But what has cricket given you, how has cricket changed
00:23:16
Speaker 1: your life?
00:23:17
Speaker 2: Thank you for asking that question because very close to
00:23:21
Speaker 2: my heart
00:23:22
Speaker 2: ah
00:23:23
Speaker 2: Being playing cricket for 15, 16 years
00:23:26
Speaker 2: and you didn't get rewarded to playing for your country
00:23:29
Speaker 2: or your you know wherever you wanted. But getting rewarded
00:23:33
Speaker 2: to being with you guys as a as a manager
00:23:36
Speaker 2: or a serving for the game.
00:23:38
Speaker 2: It's bringing to me like it's like immense pleasure
00:23:41
Speaker 2: escaping I'm alive like everybody's thinking like this is you
00:23:46
Speaker 2: know we're very tiring and it's very hectic job. I
00:23:49
Speaker 2: feel this is my holiday
00:23:50
Speaker 2: where I enjoy the most because
00:23:53
Speaker 2: I get to know you guys I've been on the
00:23:56
Speaker 2: field and I can see you people just
00:24:00
Speaker 2: standing behind the nets because yesterday even uh that guy
00:24:05
Speaker 2: uh
00:24:06
Speaker 2: roger money was telling me when I was handling that
00:24:08
Speaker 2: orange cap to Butler.
00:24:12
Speaker 2: He said to me sir can I touch that cap?
00:24:15
Speaker 2: Because we are very blessed people out of thousands of
00:24:18
Speaker 2: crores of people watching you guys. But we can actually
00:24:20
Speaker 2: touch that. We are very lucky. They changed my life
00:24:23
Speaker 2: a lot with their presence in my life and they
00:24:25
Speaker 2: helped me a lot to being a nice person to
00:24:28
Speaker 2: being a
00:24:29
Speaker 2: successful manager and the administrator of the game. So I
00:24:35
Speaker 2: I'm very I'm very thankful to this game and you
00:24:37
Speaker 2: guys that
00:24:39
Speaker 2: mary and that's why the I. P. L. I. P. L.
00:24:43
Speaker 2: Is all about it. Then it's not only making the
00:24:46
Speaker 2: champions on the ground but there are a lot of
00:24:48
Speaker 2: people off the ground got the opportunity.
00:24:51
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a very valid point. The
00:24:54
Speaker 1: game is providing everybody. That was a very heart wrenching
00:24:57
Speaker 1: message for the game of cricket but
00:24:59
Speaker 1: it's time to move on to a rapid fire. And
00:25:01
Speaker 1: I'm going to put Haiti and you see on the spot,
00:25:08
Speaker 1: quickly ask you a few questions about romi binder and
00:25:11
Speaker 1: also about the managers.
00:25:12
Speaker 1: Um hindi.
00:25:14
Speaker 1: The first question is to you, what is one thing
00:25:16
Speaker 1: about Romi that stands out that struck you when you
00:25:19
Speaker 1: saw him when you met him, you spoke to him.
00:25:20
Speaker 1: What is one thing that stuck with me? Probably his
00:25:22
Speaker 1: height on his face is probably, they look like
00:25:25
Speaker 2: they
00:25:27
Speaker 1: have like a little bit of resemblance. You mean UZ
00:25:29
Speaker 1: and Romy Museum Romy they have like a little resemblance
00:25:33
Speaker 1: so you could, they could passes either brothers or father
00:25:35
Speaker 1: and son.
00:25:36
Speaker 2: He
00:25:38
Speaker 1: does, it looks very young. Yeah. Okay. You see
00:25:40
Speaker 1: same thing the first time when I met feels like
00:25:44
Speaker 1: that I don't remember because we met just for two
00:25:46
Speaker 1: or three minutes and the time I was happy with
00:25:49
Speaker 1: someone recognized me. Like someone said, well bold. Yeah, someone
00:25:53
Speaker 1: said anything as a manager that you first came into
00:25:57
Speaker 1: the our our campaign,
00:25:59
Speaker 2: he's
00:25:59
Speaker 1: always there for you. Like you know, no matter it's
00:26:02
Speaker 1: like nine a.m. Or nine p.m. Like three a.m. Or whatever.
00:26:05
Speaker 1: Whenever I messaged him, he always replied me like
00:26:09
Speaker 1: within one minute.
00:26:11
Speaker 1: So didn't you get blown away?
00:26:13
Speaker 2: It's one of these in your book
00:26:14
Speaker 1: ticket.
00:26:49
Speaker 1: Right. Uh you see just to put
00:26:51
Speaker 1: room in a bit of a spot. Everybody has favorites.
00:26:53
Speaker 1: So I'm sure Romeo also has favorites one player inside
00:26:56
Speaker 1: the our our squad. Now that you see him spending
00:26:58
Speaker 1: a lot of time with
00:27:00
Speaker 1: I think was mostly told us a sanju I think
00:27:03
Speaker 1: when the team room or something because yeah,
00:27:06
Speaker 1: do you agree, do you agree with that?
00:27:08
Speaker 2: Another? Yeah, he's right. But
00:27:11
Speaker 1: are you ever worried that you when you, when you
00:27:13
Speaker 1: are identified with one player that actually
00:27:15
Speaker 2: not actually not because because I generally never never feel
00:27:19
Speaker 2: that I'm with someone but as my as my job
00:27:23
Speaker 2: role required
00:27:24
Speaker 2: to be sync with the manager with the captain and
00:27:28
Speaker 2: the head coach so you can see me around Sanga
00:27:31
Speaker 2: and send you a lot.
00:27:33
Speaker 2: The reason is very technical because there are a lot
00:27:36
Speaker 2: of BCC and requirements which is has to be come
00:27:40
Speaker 2: through captain and the and the coach. But generally if
00:27:43
Speaker 2: you ask even
00:27:45
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time with unknown and who
00:27:50
Speaker 2: is actually new to the I. P. L. Because
00:27:53
Speaker 2: I think they required us as a as a franchise
00:27:57
Speaker 2: almost because they feel new and new. There's a system
00:28:01
Speaker 2: we always try to feel that we were there for
00:28:05
Speaker 2: everyone
00:28:06
Speaker 2: potato
00:28:08
Speaker 2: the
00:28:08
Speaker 1: mummy the man friday the manager, whatever you may want
00:28:11
Speaker 1: to call him he's absolutely a rock star from my
00:28:13
Speaker 1: experience but before like it was a very indian thing
00:28:16
Speaker 1: and it's a very important thing and it's also very
00:28:18
Speaker 1: natural for human beings to do with heavy. So I'm
00:28:20
Speaker 1: going to start with you one
00:28:22
Speaker 1: think that
00:28:23
Speaker 1: others can learn from Romy and one thing that Romy
00:28:26
Speaker 1: needs to learn I don't know but what he needs
00:28:29
Speaker 1: they can learn is probably like like some people now
00:28:32
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about here but probably like just being
00:28:35
Speaker 1: around him and something just basically manage yourselves because it
00:28:39
Speaker 1: would be nice if
00:28:40
Speaker 1: if you if you make the manager's job a little
00:28:42
Speaker 1: bit easier by just being able to pick up the
00:28:45
Speaker 1: pin up already. Pick up after yourself, but just make
00:28:47
Speaker 1: sure that you have all of your fears in order
00:28:50
Speaker 1: and stuff and things that you need
00:28:51
Speaker 1: and so on. Even if it's not something that you
00:28:54
Speaker 1: could get personally, you could just speak to him as
00:28:56
Speaker 1: already as possible, so you don't put him on any
00:28:59
Speaker 1: added pressure in terms of like when the game starts
00:29:02
Speaker 1: or something like that or when the season starts,
00:29:05
Speaker 2: importantly please,
00:29:07
Speaker 2: it was very important, you
00:29:11
Speaker 1: know, you know why, why he gave this answer,
00:29:20
Speaker 1: everybody be professional Watson behold professional, so that's why he's
00:29:27
Speaker 1: given the answer. You see it's time to ask you
00:29:30
Speaker 1: the same question. One thing that you love about Romy
00:29:32
Speaker 1: and one thing that you hate about
00:29:34
Speaker 1: Uh one thing I love about Romania is uh the
00:29:38
Speaker 1: way he passionate and loyal about his job
00:29:41
Speaker 1: and we can, we can learn and you can adopt
00:29:43
Speaker 1: it in a noble profession
00:29:44
Speaker 1: and
00:29:49
Speaker 1: yes, a podcast, but guys, that was a lot of
00:29:54
Speaker 1: fun and obviously there are so many unsung heroes going
00:29:57
Speaker 1: around in every cricket team and more so in an
00:29:59
Speaker 1: IPL team, some of those people will be standing by
00:30:01
Speaker 1: the fridge in the dugout, some of those people will
00:30:03
Speaker 1: be standing in the dugouts and you may not know
00:30:05
Speaker 1: their names,
00:30:06
Speaker 1: but through the royal podcast you will get to know
00:30:08
Speaker 1: them a lot and that's
00:30:10
Speaker 1: The end of the first episode. The manager on the
00:30:12
Speaker 1: Royals Podcast 2022. There will be a lot more exciting
00:30:16
Speaker 1: stuff coming through the year. Stay tuned to this space
00:30:18
Speaker 1: and it's me Ashwin hosting it
00:30:27
Speaker 1: brian.
00:30:29
Speaker 1: Oh!