Bharat Sundaresan

I think it's part of the excitement of what we're doing by bringing IPL to SEN.

Joked you to life from deep sleep.

Yes, Jared.

They've become the first team to remain unbeaten after the first six games of an IPL season.

And just seeing how they've gone about it, Jared, they've

Looked like they were favourites going into the finals last year, but they couldn't get over the line.

And it was a heartbreak for Ricky.

I think that was one of three finals he lost as coach in the T20 world last year, including the MLC.

But this year, they've just gone from strength to strength.

And I've spoken about this before on your show, about just the...

Ricky Ponting himself is a great story, Jared.

For so long, he was probably not the most popular Australian in India.

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.