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