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NDTV
2 days ago
- Sport
- NDTV
Gautam Gambhir Backed India Star On England Tour Despite Doubts, Said " Tumko Khud Nahi Pata..."
A coach who believed in him more than himself, a captain who supported when the chips were down, and conditions that felt more like home than away -- Indian pacer Akash deep says his maiden but impactful tour of England was rather smooth. A 10-wicket match-haul in one game and a very important half-century in another, both in winning causes, summed up Akash Deep's performance that has made him an overnight star but he can't forget what head coach Gautam Gambhir told him after his 66 at the Oval. "Tumko khud pata nahi tum kya kar sakte ho (You aren't aware of your capabilities). 'See, I was telling you, you can do it. You have to play with this dedication always'," the 29-year-old recollected in an interview to PTI. "Gautam bhai is a very passionate coach. He always motivates us. He believes in me more than I believe in myself, both in my batting and bowling," he gushed after having earned the vote of confidence from his coach. Having made his Test debut under Rohit Sharma and now playing under Shubman Gill, the adjustment has been easy for the Bengal speedster, who terms the new skipper as someone who is calm yet brimming with on-field ideas. "He is a very good captain. It's not like he is a new captain. He has already been an IPL captain for a couple of years, which is a big platform. That experience does count," he said. "With Shubman as captain, I didn't feel like I was playing for the first time. He's very supportive. When a captain supports you and understands things well, especially when you are down, it makes a big difference. "I have played Duleep Trophy under his captaincy last year so it wasn't the first time. He is a cool customer with a lot of ideas and when someone is calm, it helps in taking good on-field decisions," Akash Deep explained. Although it was his first time in England, Akash Deep, for the better part of the series, felt that he was playing on sub-continental tracks with negligible movement for quick bowlers. "In Australia, there was a lot of bounce and carry and I tried keeping it slightly back of length or at times pitch it up. However, in four out of the five Tests that we played in England, it didn't resemble the typical English wickets that we have traditionally heard of or seen over the years. "If you see, the ball wasn't seaming or swinging a lot at times and we had to hit the India length, fuller one. We had to make that adjustment which, if you have played enough cricket, you should be able to do it." Akash Deep then dwelled on his net routines and visualisation techniques before going into an actual match. "Practice sessions are very important for me in terms of execution. I am always trying to think about the main opposition batter that I am supposed to bowl," he revealed. "Bhale hi main Yashasvi ko nets pe ball daloon, plan mera (Ben) Duckett aur (Joe) Root ke liye hota thaa. (I might be bowling to Yashasvi in nets but my plan was for Duckett or Root)." When asked about concerns around his fitness after he missed games in both the tours of Australia and England due to niggles, Akash Deep said he is doing his best to be in good shape. "The on-field impact injuries can't be avoided. If you have to dive to save a boundary, you have to do it. You can't think that I will hurt my shoulder and all. Yes, if it is fitness and training-related injuries, the aim is to minimise them as much as possible," he said. Till now, Akash Deep has played 10 Tests and taken 28 wickets. When asked if he has been zeroed in only for the longer version of the game, Akash Deep said that he hasn't been told anything in specific. "We can't just go and talk to selectors. They are experienced people and when they feel that they need me for any format, they would summon. My job is to perform and be ready for call ups." Before the tour of England, his sister Akhanda Jyoti was diagnosed with cancer and it was a particularly tough time for family. Once he landed back in India, he first went to Lucknow to meet his sister. "She was very happy. The treatment is a bit tough for all the patients. There are complications but with the series on for nearly two months and a family member playing, it kept her interested. "I was thinking even if she felt the pain at times because she is keenly following my performance, at times you don't think about it and good performances always makes one happy. When you are happy, even if there are multiple complications in the body for some time, you tend to forget," he said. Another task he completed after returning was buying his dream car, a luxury SUV. It was a massive moment for the players who was a tennis ball cricketer in Bengal's Durgapur Town, playing second division club cricket for a pittance. The cricketer, who hails from Bihar's Sasaram, said he has gone with the flow in life and never planned anything. "...I have always tried to stay in present and improve and work upon my skills everyday, the endeavour was to be the better version of myself every single day. Yes, good things are a part of life but the heart of my life is cricket, and that's what is my focus," he said. "The fancy car makes you happy, I won't deny but that's very transient. It doesn't stay after some time. Yes, my family would find joys in these achievements and I find happiness in seeing them smile. But to tell you the truth, I have never put a lot of thought into what I want to achieve," he concluded.
New Indian Express
3 days ago
- Sport
- New Indian Express
Gautam bhai always tells me 'you are not aware of your own talent': Akash Deep
"I have played Duleep Trophy under his captaincy last year so it wasn't the first time. He is a cool customer with a lot of ideas and when someone is calm, it helps in taking good on-field decisions," Akash Deep explained. Although it was his first time in England, Akash Deep, for the better part of the series, felt that he was playing on sub-continental tracks with negligible movement for quick bowlers. "In Australia, there was a lot of bounce and carry and I tried keeping it slightly back of length or at times pitch it up. However, in four out of the five Tests that we played in England, it didn't resemble the typical English wickets that we have traditionally heard of or seen over the years. "If you see, the ball wasn't seaming or swinging a lot at times and we had to hit the India length, fuller one. We had to make that adjustment which, if you have played enough cricket, you should be able to do it." Akash Deep then dwelled on his net routines and visualisation techniques before going into an actual match. "Practice sessions are very important for me in terms of execution. I am always trying to think about the main opposition batter that I am supposed to bowl," he revealed. "Bhale hi main Yashasvi ko nets pe ball daloon, plan mera (Ben) Duckett aur (Joe) Root ke liye hota thaa. (I might be bowling to Yashasvi in nets but my plan was for Duckett or Root)." When asked about concerns around his fitness after he missed games in both the tours of Australia and England due to niggles, Akash Deep said he is doing his best to be in good shape. "The on-field impact injuries can't be avoided. If you have to dive to save a boundary, you have to do it. You can't think that I will hurt my shoulder and all. Yes, if it is fitness and training related injuries, the aim is to minimise them as much as possible," he said. Till now, Akash Deep has played 10 Tests and taken 28 wickets. When asked if he has been zeroed in only for the longer version of the game, Akash Deep said that he hasn't been told anything in specific. "We can't just go and talk to selectors. They are experienced people and when they feel that they need me for any format, they would summon. My job is to perform and be ready for call ups." Before the tour of England, his sister Akhanda Jyoti was diagnosed with cancer and it was a particularly tough time for family.
News18
3 days ago
- Sport
- News18
Gautam bhai always tells me you are not aware of your own talent: Akash Deep
New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI) A coach who believed in him more than himself, a captain who supported when the chips were down and conditions that felt more like home than away — Indian pacer Akash deep says his maiden but impactful tour of England was rather smooth. A 10-wicket match-haul in one game and a very important half-century in another, both in winning causes, summed up Akash Deep's performance that has made him an overnight star but he can't forget what head coach Gautam Gambhir told him after his 66 at the Oval. 'Tumko khud pata nahi tum kya kar sakte ho (You aren't aware of your capabilities). 'See, I was telling you, you can do it. You have to play with this dedication always'," the 29-year-old recollected in an interview to PTI. 'Gautam bhai is a very passionate coach. He always motivates us. He believes in me more than I believe in myself, both in my batting and bowling," he gushed after having earned the vote of confidence from his coach. Having made his Test debut under Rohit Sharma and now playing under Shubman Gill, the adjustment has been easy for the Bengal speedster, who terms the new skipper as someone who is calm yet brimming with on-field ideas. 'He is a very good captain. It's not like he is a new captain. He has already been an IPL captain for a couple of years, which is a big platform. That experience does count," he said. 'With Shubman as captain, I didn't feel like I was playing for the first time. He's very supportive. When a captain supports you and understands things well, especially when you are down, it makes a big difference. 'I have played Duleep Trophy under his captaincy last year so it wasn't the first time. He is a cool customer with a lot of ideas and when someone is calm, it helps in taking good on-field decisions," Akash Deep explained. Although it was his first time in England, Akash Deep, for the better part of the series, felt that he was playing on sub-continental tracks with negligible movement for quick bowlers. 'In Australia, there was a lot of bounce and carry and I tried keeping it slightly back of length or at times pitch it up. However, in four out of the five Tests that we played in England, it didn't resemble the typical English wickets that we have traditionally heard of or seen over the years. 'If you see, the ball wasn't seaming or swinging a lot at times and we had to hit the India length, fuller one. We had to make that adjustment which, if you have played enough cricket, you should be able to do it." Akash Deep then dwelled on his net routines and visualisation techniques before going into an actual match. 'Practice sessions are very important for me in terms of execution. I am always trying to think about the main opposition batter that I am supposed to bowl," he revealed. 'Bhale hi main Yashasvi ko nets pe ball daloon, plan mera (Ben) Duckett aur (Joe) Root ke liye hota thaa. (I might be bowling to Yashasvi in nets but my plan was for Duckett or Root)." When asked about concerns around his fitness after he missed games in both the tours of Australia and England due to niggles, Akash Deep said he is doing his best to be in good shape. 'The on-field impact injuries can't be avoided. If you have to dive to save a boundary, you have to do it. You can't think that I will hurt my shoulder and all. Yes, if it is fitness and training related injuries, the aim is to minimise them as much as possible," he said. Till now, Akash Deep has played 10 Tests and taken 28 wickets. When asked if he has been zeroed in only for the longer version of the game, Akash Deep said that he hasn't been told anything in specific. 'We can't just go and talk to selectors. They are experienced people and when they feel that they need me for any format, they would summon. My job is to perform and be ready for call ups." Before the tour of England, his sister Akhanda Jyoti was diagnosed with cancer and it was a particularly tough time for family. Once he landed back in India, he first went to Lucknow to meet his sister. 'She was very happy. The treatment is a bit tough for all the patients. There are complications but with the series on for nearly two months and a family member playing, it kept her interested. 'I was thinking even if she felt the pain at times because she is keenly following my performance, at times you don't think about it and good performances always makes one happy. When you are happy, even if there are multiple complications in the body for some time, you tend to forget," he said. Another task he completed after returning was buying his dream car, a luxury SUV. It was a massive moment for the players who was a tennis ball cricketer in Bengal's Durgapur Town, playing second division club cricket for a pittance. The cricketer, who hails from Bihar's Sasaram, said he has gone with the flow in life and never planned anything. top videos View all '…I have always tried to stay in present and improve and work upon my skills everyday, the endeavour was to be the better version of myself every single day. Yes, good things are a part of life but the heart of my life is cricket, and that's what is my focus," he said. 'The fancy car makes you happy, I won't deny but that's very transient. It doesn't stay after some time. Yes, my family would find joys in these achievements and I find happiness in seeing them smile. But to tell you the truth, I have never put a lot of thought into what I want to achieve," he concluded. 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Hindustan Times
30-07-2025
- General
- Hindustan Times
Walking with writers: Yashasvi Vachhani
Contrary to writerly stereotypes, Yashasvi Vachhani is quite sociable. When she's not writing, she runs the Osmosis Award for new poets with fellow writers Kunjana Parashar and Kinjal Sethia. She holds literary and other workshops and till recently, served on the literary curation team at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. Yashasvi Vachhani (Courtesy the subject) In the course of the evening, Yashasvi relates how her childhood home, Manik Moti, a building in Khar, was redeveloped. It took some five years, and during construction, Yashasvi and her family lived in the same suburb. They returned a year ago to their redeveloped home, to taller and more capacious Blue Lotus. The upgrade brought much joy, peace and a feeling of being secure. It also brought with it a feeling of disorientation. Some of that found its way into Yashasvi's work. This included a poem which bridged the old home temporally with the new. Referring to the poem, she begins the walk from her building by pointing out the portico as the location of her own room in the old structure. Outside it is a small yard, where a sedan car stands by potted plants. She points out a couple of trees that were in the old compound and now stand on the public footpath carved out from the property. Home and belonging, transience and constancy, gain and loss layered together keenly evoke a sense of disorientation in some of her poems. Along with old neighbours, she says, came new people. I gather they are nice enough. The only matter is things have changed. Now, she says, when entering and leaving the new building, people don't cross paths. '(In the old place) we could see who was coming and going,' she says, referring at one level to their being new. At another, she is pointing to architectural design. Small talk with neighbours may foment mutual acknowledgement, lead to a sense of ease, and at some point, bonding. The new constructions and for that matter, new mindsets, seem better suited to individualist living. This, too, is understandable. There are still plenty of people around who are familiar. A woman dressed in a sari goes by. They exchange a cordial, smiling word. The woman, Yashasvi says, did domestic work for them in the old building. She still comes around to work for other families. The new situation is positive overall. It satisfies, and then some. She observes that the building is sturdy. Their new home is on the first floor, above stormwater in the rainy season. The building is beautiful, I say. She agrees and accepts the compliment with thanks. Yashasvi remarks, 'That's the almond tree.' It's still inside the property. It stands by the gate, looking a bit cramped in between her building and its neighbour. The bark looks healthy, the green and red leaves are vivid, numerous, thick and stiff. Under its piece of the sky and the sun, it is thriving. Far more expansively than the tree, I'd say, Sindhis flourish as a whole. They've made a home in India, specifically in this city and surrounding ones. Over time, their families grew. Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren were born in the country. Yashasvi was too. She is 36. The almond tree is mentioned in a poem of hers that appeared in Singapore Unbound, 'About things from here and there'. The poem has a mother and her two daughters, one being the narrator, sitting together to watch a serial or movie from across the border. Mom said look, so many people still speak in Sindhi where Sindh is, we are technically refugees here, di replied. [...] Imagined an almond tree it bled The narrator is told she, too, is 'technically a refugee'. It perhaps inspires her deeper personalising of the loss of the ancestral homeland. The narrator appears to reaffirm her understanding, intensely or otherwise, that the term applies to her. It is a self-searching undertaken by other young Sindhis, too, who were born here in India. Here seems more directly relevant to many of them, there mainly by dint of importance to elders. In many families the situation is reversed. It might be the parents who say they are now householders (grihasth) here, they have made lives in India and are no one's refugees; the children, in search of roots or a cause to bring the community together, might insist otherwise. This doesn't apply to the narrator in Yashasvi's poem, who answers the universal question in her own way. 'The narrator does reaffirm (she's a refugee), but not like in a strong way,' she explains. It's a puzzling statement in light of the vigorous image where the 'almond tree/ it bled'. Still, I can relate with the feeling of the quest. I am not Sindhi. My origins can be traced, my family says, to a village on Maharashtra's Konkan coast. I can name the village. I've never visited it. My ancestors left for the city by choice. In the village I have no people. If I do, they are strangers. My mother tongue, Marathi, and sister tongue, English, are spoken where I live. What I miss is my childhood home, a universal and occasional longing. On the whole, it's alright. And it's not the same as a lost ancestral homeland. What I can empathise with more, is a fellow writer experiencing big feelings. I can imagine watching a Sindhi serial and wondering about the old des. Constantly changing: A road in Khar West, in Mumbai (Vijay Bate/Hindustan Times) Every writer has big feelings. It's a raw resource like crude oil suddenly gushing out of the earth in your backyard, kickstarting your creative engine, pumping your piston, heavy on you, heavy on your surroundings. Creativity guru Rick Rubin has called them a blessing and a curse. Big feelings fuel a drive to make art. They are tough to handle. So, thank goodness for trees, including almond trees. May they flourish. Thank goodness for metaphors growing on them. They go to show, maybe, that things can work out for communities, and for writers. Yashasvi's other poems range from the expressionistic to the surreal, poems with themes (not fully mappable on her private life) of a longing for belonging, for freedom, for greater agency and boundaries, more frankness, catharsis, to become shakti, even. Looking at the soft-spoken, diplomatic and astutely observant poet walking gently towards Bandra, you'd never guess the contents of Morph Sis!, another one of her poems. It begins with eating a melon redly and suggests a metamorphosis larger than life, larger than patriarchy: – in the mirrorwatch her emerge – devi hair askew, juice snakingdown her chin splitting into tributaries along skin – a turtle inching out of her shell or a pappilio clytia emerging from chrysalis,feet first – Speaking of matrikas in red, Yashasvi has chosen for herself a vibrant palette of crimson and cream today, with accents of gold. These colours are associated with vitality, initiative, plenitude, auspiciousness, amity. Their extroversion complements my low key grey, black and navy blue scheme that suggests, 'Occupant is Respectable and Conventional: Nothing to See Here.' This poem forms a chiaroscuro with her soft-spoken persona, with her quick wit that appears in daily interactions. Walking by her old school that's close to home, she half-jests, 'I'd still be late.' The school building is the same. Across the street, almost all of Yashasvi's block, eight of 11 buildings by my estimate, seem to have been redeveloped in the past decade. She jokes that she's become used to construction. The wry humour is relatable for Mumbaiites. She says she can tell the stages of construction from the noises. 'For example, laying marble,' she says. 'One crane with a blinking light reminds me of Aladdin's lamp. We speak of seeing beauty in the everyday as a way to cope.' (Shutterstock) We speak of our manuscripts in progress. 'I'm a late bloomer,' she says. I say my book-length project made me an alcoholic in its first draft, made me a teetotaller in the second, and, around draft three, kept me abstentious while making me emotionally equable. Now, the MS is finally going well. 'It's your first,' she says, understanding. It's tough to be a late bloomer in a city of ambition, a city eager to be made, re-made, developed, redeveloped. Where each building takes a monumental pose, a book that is as hard and audacious as a construction project, is far less visible and unlikely to be lucrative. But it's alright; we know we'll be okay. Having recently left the team of the online journal, The Bombay Literary Magazine, she has now founded her own lit mag, The Tiffinbox Review. It's a welcome development and aims to provide an outlet for distinctive new writing. TTR will accept work that's surreal, bizarre, weird. It's what Yashasvi too wants to explore in her writing. A win-win. -- The sun sets behind passing rain clouds, pardein mein. We wind up in Bandra around dusk, and sit on the tiled steps at Carter Road, facing the Arabian Sea transformed into blue-black ink. We speak, looking at the big water on which a bridge, the Bandra Versova sea link, will span the horizon. Right now, it's a bare metal and concrete spine being extended by cranes that look like birds. The conversation moves on to environmental themes. One crane with a blinking light reminds me of Aladdin's lamp. We speak of seeing beauty in the everyday as a way to cope. And just like that, time passes. After a quick coffee, only my sixth of the day, Yashasvi hurries back to dinner with her family. I staunchly resist the siren song of a sweet shop, and leave with my blood sugar level unimpeachably intact. The colours of the night grow darker and more beautiful. Delicate droplets of rain shimmer in the halos of the streetlamps. Suhit Bombaywala's factual and fictive writing appears in India and abroad. He tweets @suhitbombaywala.
India.com
02-07-2025
- Sport
- India.com
IND vs ENG: Yashasvi Jaiswal misses out on breaking star Indian cricketer's 26-year-old record by...
Yashasvi Jaiswal. (PIC - X) New Delhi: Indian team's young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has missed out on a big achievement in his Test career. This left-handed batsman had a chance to complete the fastest 2000 Test runs for India in the first innings of the second Test being played against England at Edgbaston. But Yashasvi could not do so by just 10 runs. Whose record could have been broken by Yashasvi Jaiswal? Yashasvi got out after scoring 87 runs. So now he has 1990 runs in 39 innings of Tests. If he had scored 10 more runs, he would have become the fastest Indian to score 2000 runs. By doing this, Yashasvi would have also broken the record of Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. Sehwag-Dravid had achieved this feat in 40 innings. Now if Yashasvi has done it in 39 innings only. Who are the two players and when did they achieve their record? Rahul Dravid did this feat against New Zealand in Hamilton in 1999 and Virender Sehwag did this feat against Australia in Chennai in 2004. Yashasvi made his Test debut against West Indies in July 2023 at Roseau and has scored 1990 runs in 39 innings so far. His average is 52.86. Who are the fastest Indian batters to score 2000 Test runs? Rahul Dravid – 40 innings (New Zealand, Hamilton, 1999) Virender Sehwag 40 innings (Australia, Chennai, 2001) Vijay Hazare – 43 innings (West Indies, Port of Spain, 1953) Gautam Gambhir – 43 innings (New Zealand, Napier, 2009) Sunil Gavaskar – 44 innings (West Indies, Port of Spain, 1976) How was Yashasvi Jaiswal's performance? Yashasvi had performed brilliantly in the first Test as well and scored 101 runs (159 balls, 16 fours and 1 six) in the first innings. However, in the second innings, he could score only 4 runs and was dismissed by Brydon Curse. However, after contributing in batting, Jaiswal will also have to focus on his fielding. In the Leeds Test, he dropped four easy catches which affected the result of the match.
