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barack coley who we visited with a
couple of years ago here in mumbai uh
your
sessions with him in 2014 after his
england series entailed what
i hadn't spoken much about that
there were few areas he wanted to work
on and
we discussed he and he gives you a lot
of credit
yes he
bernard is a good friend and
so pleased to see how his career has
shaped you know
in the last decade how when he started i
was part of the team at that time and i
could see that
fire in him i could see that hunger in
him
and from there on how he's worked hard
on his game how he's changed his
lifestyle to achieve what he's been able
to achieve
has been remarkable and
in 2014 i remember
meeting him and we we discussed a couple
of things
where
i felt he could get better what do you
think you learned from him
i learnt
humility i learned absolute commitment
to
the sport and
just after playing for 25 years for your
country still having the commitment to
you know put the effort that he put when
he was on the field is something which
i think is a huge huge learning for
anyone
not just in sport but i think across
anything in life bharat
has has
been tremendous he's done remarkably
well and there is so much to happen in
his career from here on we all at some
stage in our career we all
need heroes and then
the
players
who have that impact on their generation
motivate so many guys and then when i
was growing up there was sunil gawas
and he was that to you you
were that to varad how satisfying is it
to be able to kind of work with the the
face of the next generation
i think
i've always believed in you know helping
players and sharing
my knowledge whatever inputs i have
always been open to that and
virat had contacted me and he wanted me
to spend some time with him and which i
which i did
and
like i said that each
generation
they look up to their hero and then
that's how you set your dreams and you
set your targets
and then you start chasing them i
remember growing up he was he was the
one who revolutionized the sport in this
country just purely because of the way
he went on about things
you'll always have someone who will come
and change the sport
um so if you talk about basketball yoga
jordan the way he you know just changed
the whole
outlook of the game and unlocked new
abilities for people to believe in
and that's exactly what he did what do
you remember from the gift that he gave
you
oh
i was
i still remember just
had returned to the dressing room
and i couldn't control my tears till
then i knew i mean yes i'm gonna retire
but
when that ball was done
i said to myself okay that's it
never ever in your life you will walk
out on the field
as an international player for india
imagine for 25 years there's one name
that's been constant
in the indian cricket team and now is
not going to be there
we felt like
you know how you how a child feels like
when
they're scared or they're by themselves
at night you know walking home and you
feel that sort of that hollow and that
you know emptiness around you
all of us felt like that so i was
sitting in one corner alone
with a towel on my head
and
wiping tears and i was really emotional
and at that time
virat had virat had come to me
and
virat gave me
the sacred thread that his father had
given him
it was
from his late father
yes absolutely we usually wear threads
around our wrist in india a lot of
people do so my father gave one to me
which he used to have so i used to keep
that with me in my bag
and then i thought this is the most
valuable thing i have so
it's like my father gave this to me and
i think
i couldn't give you anything more
valuable and i just want you to know how
much you've inspired me and what you
mean to all of us and this is my little
gift to you
kept that for a while
and then
returned that to him again i said this
is
priceless and this has to stay with you
and no one else
this is your property you should have it
till your last play
and i gave it back to him so that was
that was an emotional moment
um something
something which will
be always there in my memory forever