Bharat Sundaresan

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 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.

And the IPL is full of examples of Australians or young Australians who found their feet there before they become international stars.

I mean, Shane Watson being the best example of it.

You know, his international career in 2008, you know, he was there, but he had the talent, but he wasn't

really doing what was expected of him, just the talent that he had, the potential that he had.

And under Shane Warne in 2008, Jared, he became the player of the tournament, the first ever player of the tournament in the IPL.

And then his career took off.

Sean Marsh, the same in 2008.

And there have been other examples.

Mitchell Johnson famously was out of the Australian team, 2013 IPL.

He comes back to life, helps them win the title.

Sachin Tendulkar says Mitchell Johnson will be the

star of the Ashes that summer.

And Sachin Tendulkar is always right.