Punjab Kings (PBKS) batter Nehal Wadhera opened up about his game plan after his match-winning innings against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) at the Ekana Stadium. Wadhera scored an unbeaten 43* (25) with the help of three fours and four sixes.
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00:00Yeah.
00:01Wow.
00:03And then how the local IP has coming up since the Punjabis, the team has been looking at
00:04over attacking and what is the like today also the team was going very fast like the
00:05red net was high.
00:06So, any messages were given like to finish the game early as possible and put the red
00:07net more nicely.
00:08Like we see that in the later stage red net is a key for this.
00:09So, that is what we are trying to do.
00:10Yeah.
00:11Yeah.
00:12Yeah.
00:13Yeah.
00:14Yeah.
00:15Yeah.
00:16Yeah.
00:17Yeah.
00:18Yeah.
00:19Yeah.
00:20Yeah.
00:21Yeah.
00:22Yeah.
00:23No, to be very honest initially that wasn t the plan at all.
00:32So, that wasn t even the conversation which we had, in our team but the way Prabh, Srimaran
00:38and Ira Bhai they were batting it was you know, tremendous.
00:40They just went with one flow and they just kept on, the ball just kept on connecting.
00:46And later on when I came in I just had a clear thought that if it s in my range I am going
00:51of 100% with it and if it's not in my range I'll just go for a single or
00:57double but the my plan was that I'm not gonna let any pressure come on our
01:02captain I'm gonna take all the charge and I'm gonna attack all the ballers so
01:05maybe that is one of the reasons that we could finish the game early because you
01:10know the way Prabh just gave us a tremendous start so I think that is one
01:16of the reasons that we ended up chasing down this total in I don't know 15 or
01:2116 overs
01:31sir actually I came in as an impact player in the 19th over so I didn't get
01:37the time to even you know see if the wicket has changed or not but sir to be
01:44very honest I seriously don't know but when I was batting definitely the ball
01:48was gripping a bit and yeah that's it sir
02:01yeah so when I initially went in I had to face the Divesh and I know a bit
02:08about him because I have played tournaments with him so I knew that he
02:12was gonna attack me with googly's and I know that you know reverse sweep on this
02:17track was a safer option rather than going over the top to him because you
02:21know the way he was his pace and if it would have connected I'm sure it would
02:26have gone for a six but it didn't so yeah and the way I planned my innings is
02:31nothing anything special which I planned but I just try to go with the flow I just
02:36see the ball and I just react that's my plan which has always been since day one
02:47You have won a lot of matches with MI but you have never been in the starting line-up. Do you have any confidence that you will be able to play well before the start of the season?
03:06Sir like the first year when I came to IPL I played all the matches but second
03:11year unfortunately I didn't get the chance to play all the matches but
03:15whatever chances I got I was happy that I contributed to the team
03:20I forgot the question
03:25Do you have any confidence that you will be able to play well before the start of the season?
03:29No sir, even today if I talk about it I didn't know that I was playing a match
03:33I told this in the post-match interview that I had brought a kit because I didn't know which one I was playing
03:39otherwise I keep one for fielding and one for batting
03:42so I came in full sleeves and I just played and that's it
03:47Sometimes these things also go in your favor because if you know that you are playing
03:53sometimes you know you get more thoughts in your mind so you know
03:57knowing sometimes it also helps when you don't know that you are actually playing
04:01so I think this was one of those days when I was lucky that I didn't know that I was playing and it turned out to be well for me
04:09When did you get the information that you are going to bat?
04:12Sorry?
04:13When was it informed to you that you are going to bat?
04:16And what was the message like?
04:19Yeah so during warm-up Ricky Ponting came up to me and he was like
04:23if we bowl first you are going to be in the XI and I said okay then
04:31and still I was thinking that how can I be in XI?
04:34Even if we are bowling how can I be in XI?
04:37I was calculating that maybe he must have said it by mistake
04:42so after playing XI I realized that yes I am playing
04:49that's why I started warming up in the XI and XII over
04:52because I knew that I might have to go for fielding
04:56Then I went and as I told you earlier if I get a par in my parlour then I will hit a six or a four
05:02and if I don't get it then I will hit a single or a double. This was my plan.