Bharat Sundaresan

There was mutual... Sorry, grudging admiration for what he was doing with the bat.

But in his early days, he wasn't very kind to the Indian players.

But the way he's been able to win over India through not just the success that he's got with Punjab and even Delhi earlier, even though he doesn't have a title to show for it as head coach...

But I think he just understood India as well as any Australian has.

And I'll just give you a couple of examples.

So he's got Brad Haddon as his deputy over there.

And Prabh Simran Singh, this young opener, last year they found that he was doing well in home games, but in away games, he just wasn't performing the way they expected him to.

So they realized that this kid was just homesick.

So they got his mother to travel with him to a couple of away games and his numbers just started looking different.

And then they also started another ritual of when they are home in Chandigarh to go to his house and

and have his mother cook for the whole team.

And it's a very cultural thing.

And for Ricky Ponting, of all people, to have got a grasp of it and for him to have made that a part of his IPL journey kind of just tells you how he's really...

really kind of not just focused on the cricket but uh kind of understood how indians and india clicks and you can see the performances um come through ever since and and the other other thing i would say is cooper connelly um we spoke about him a couple of weeks ago he was one of the ones who was left out of the contracts um and he's given him a new role that i don't think he's had before of number batting at number three and he's already played three match winning knocks including the

I think 182-run partnership he put on a couple of nights ago to give them that fifth win in six games.

Hello, Jared.

All I want to say is I've gone to bed a couple of nights this week listening to the commentary.

Just beware, Ravi Shastri can get excited at times and to suddenly hear...

When you're just kind of nodded off at 4am and, you know, you kind of jump out of your bed and it's Ravi screaming because someone's hit a six.

It's not a warning.