Why KL Rahul's on-field feats left his mom unimpressed

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KL Rahul won Player of the Match as he helped save the day for Team India on Sunday, but it was not his cricketing accomplishments that made his family proud.   : Oaktree Sports.

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00:00My mother still gives me *** for not having a degree.

00:05The happiest they've been is when I got a RBI job.

00:08My dad's a professor, my mom's a professor.

00:30My mother still gives me **** for not having a degree.

00:42Even now?

00:43Even now, yeah.

00:44Even during lockdown, she said why don't you finish your 30 papers.

00:46Why don't you sit and write it and get a degree.

00:49No mom, what do you want me to do?

00:52I'm playing cricket, doing well for myself, you want me to write 30 papers.

00:55She's like yeah, why not?

00:57She's not impressed.

00:58She's not impressed with you.

00:59Which is not? IPL captaincy, India captaincy, nah. Degree.

01:04The happiest they've been is when I got a RBI job.

01:07Because I got a central government job. So, they were the happiest.

01:10I had played four years for India already.

01:13But that didn't make them happy.

01:14This was like, yes, now you'll be stable.

01:16I'll just get a good salary.

01:18They look after the sports people really well.

01:21Yeah.

01:22I love how you're talking about good salary.

01:26There's people out there who are listening and saying,

01:28IPL captain playing for India.

01:31Still proper middle class values.

01:33Good service.

01:34Yeah.

01:35My dad's a professor.

01:37My mom's a professor.

01:39The whole family, whoever I can think of, my cousins,

01:43whoever, are all either engineers or doctors or doing something.

01:49I was a smart kid till like 10th.

01:52Once you finish 10th,

01:54you could choose whether you want to do commerce or you want to do science.

01:58And nobody in my family has ever taken commerce.

02:00So, it was like, for my parents, it's going to be embarrassing for us.

02:06I can't do it.

02:07I can't take up science and play cricket.

02:09There's no chance.

02:11But they understood.

02:13When did they finally say, okay, now it's fine.

02:18But if you're telling me a year and a half ago,

02:20your mom was telling you to take 30 papers then.

02:22My mom keeps taunting me every now and then.

02:26But I've been fortunate in a way because, you know,

02:29dad played a bit of cricket.

02:31He played for his university and everything.

02:33And his story is that his parents didn't encourage him that much to play cricket.

02:39They didn't stop him.

02:40But once he got to a place where either he had to choose cricket or studies,

02:45that's when they said, no, you have to choose studies.

02:47He loves the game as well.

02:48So, he never stopped me or never said you cannot play it.

02:52He said, I'll let you play it.

02:54I want you to play cricket.

02:56But just make sure your education doesn't take a backseat completely.

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