Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
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And obviously when you go for something like one, one and a half million dollars or pounds or whatever it is, straight away it puts a massive pressure because the expectation from your team, if it's at 10% goes to 90%.
So automatically that pressure builds on you as a cricketer.
And then to go out there and first of all, have the pressure of winning matches, have the pressure of the home crowd.
And then on top of that, you have the pressure of performing to that expectation of the money you've been paid.
It all adds up.
So you can imagine the kind of, I mean, how mentally strong you need to be as a human being, as a cricketer or as a player to be able to perform under those circumstances.
And that's what makes these players so special.
No, I don't think they put that reliance on them because at the end of the day, see, at what price you get picked in the auction, it has nothing to do with you.
So you cannot go to a youngster.
If you are somebody like, say, Quinton de Kock,
who's gone sold for, say, 200,000 this year.
He's gone for the base price.
And he's got young cricketers who have not even played international cricket, who are uncapped players playing for 1.4 million.
Obviously, Quinton Leacock, that kid has nothing to do with anything in this process.
It's all to do with the franchise and what they think the value is of the player.
But if you're Quinton Leacock, you're definitely sitting there and thinking.
Especially someone who knows the tournament so well.
This is not right.
Everything.
Every single penny.