Jyotiraditya Scindia’s cricket craze

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“Viv Richards, Gundappa Viswanath, Sunny Gavaskar…” Watch Jyotiraditya Scindia unleash his inner cricket geek.

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00:00When the game is on, there can not be any distractions.

00:05And even if someone walks past you, it's like, you know, how can you do that?

00:10You know, the ball is just being bowled.

00:12There is a lot of money in cricket today.

00:14In fact, I would say that there's too much of money in cricket today.

00:31Is cricket a part of the conversation?

00:34Oh yeah, absolutely.

00:35It is.

00:36Absolutely.

00:37With your son special.

00:38Absolutely.

00:39Yeah.

00:40Very passionate about it.

00:41Very passionate.

00:42And I think we had an India-Australia match this past week in Indore, my home ground with

00:46MPCA.

00:48And I could only take out an hour and a half, but I was there.

00:52And when I was on the ground, I was a cricketer and I was a fan.

00:57And my only concentration was on the field, on every single ball.

01:03It's a magnet.

01:04It just takes you over.

01:07And I think if you're a diehard cricket lover, when the game is on, there can not be any

01:15distractions.

01:16And even if someone walks past you, it's like, you know, how can you do that?

01:21You know, the ball is just being bowled.

01:23Who were your icons?

01:24Did you put up posters on your walls?

01:27Yeah, Viv Richards and very, very early days.

01:31I remember watching cricket with my father when we had only black and white TVs.

01:39I was a school boy in Bombay, and we used to have a little black and white set and we

01:46would be watching Gundappa, Vishwanath and Sunny Gavaskar.

01:4970s.

01:50Yeah.

01:51I'm talking about from those days.

01:52Cricket match.

01:53Yeah.

01:54One cricket stadium.

01:55Before the one days came in.

01:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:57Much before.

01:58Test cricket.

01:59Is test cricket still something that you watch?

02:02Absolutely.

02:03I'm very passionate.

02:04I'm very passionate about the old form of the game as well.

02:06There is much to be said about it, as there is to be said about the T20.

02:11If we didn't have the T20, we would not have ability to perform under pressure.

02:16And that knack to be able to be fearless gets imbibed from T20.

02:22The level of fitness, concentration, commitment that our youngsters today are showing is just

02:30unbelievable.

02:31And, you know, there's so much access they have to the training, to so much more than

02:40the earlier generation.

02:42The earlier generation too, I have to say this to you because I have, you know, I have

02:47been witness to cricket in terms of anecdotes from my father's time of the Holkar greats

02:53to my father's period when he used to be playing in Gwalior and Indore and all over the place.

02:59And as a kid, I used to play with him at railway stadium when he was railway minister.

03:02Every week, every Sunday was a cricket match.

03:05The commitment was still very much there.

03:08The concentration on form, line and length, practice was still very tremendous.

03:15Yes, there is technology that has come to play and there is science that has come to play now.

03:20Those elements were not there in those days, but not to say the sportsmen in those days

03:25were even iota less committed.

03:28In fact, even more committed.

03:30It was used to be a dharm, you know, families and all of that came second.

03:39And I'm talking about the days, Smita ji, when there was no money in cricket.

03:44There is a lot of money in cricket today.

03:46In fact, I would say that there's too much money in cricket today.

03:49I'm talking about the days when you had players going out there and I'm not kidding you, literally

03:55taking a hathoda and keel and, you know, hammering in those matting wickets before you start

04:01play and you start practice.

04:04And you didn't have the equipment and you didn't have all that exposure, but they would

04:07be playing day in and day out.

04:14Yeah.

04:15Yeah.

04:16Yeah.

04:17Yeah.

04:18Yeah.

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