Several members of the Kerala team, with a broken heart and lost by the words, recognized the presence of these young children in the stands, posing for images, even when the baby momentarily brought a comic relief in the presentation. “You have won us in the three stages of knockout. Next time, boys, we will overcome you. We will give you a more difficult time,” Baby told the Vidarbha team in Jest.
“Brain Fade,” he said at the press conference after the party, of the work that dragged Karun Nair in Deep Midwickt in 98. The occasion could not have been bigger; A century in its number 100 first class game may have killed the game. But it wasn’t to be; It was as if they had run out of luck in the quarterfinals and the semifinals, which scraped through the courtesy leads of one and two races respectively.
“As a leader, I will blame,” he said. “My shot changed the impulse of the game. I wanted to be there for the team, and we had six below. I wanted to be there until the end to obtain the leadership. I wanted to have an advantage of more than 100 if it were an advantage. That would have made a difference.”
Baby could not explain why he played the work: it was a more than a calculated risk, one that may be repeated in his mind again and again. “I was playing the whole floor until that moment, but then I don’t know what happened and why I played that shot. But that and the fallen capture of Karun [Nair] They were important moments of the game. “
And then he continued. “If I attribute success, I will also blame the failure. No one plays a shot to get out. That shot was not in my mind, actually. Maybe it was a moment of brain fading. But in this wickt, you had to play shots. If I had played too defensive, there would have been pressure on the team and myself.”
At 36, Baby is the oldest member on this side. He hates the use of the word ‘veteran’ to describe aging stars. He says that he has ever felt more in shape, all possible signs of him wanting to continue. But without wanting to achieve it, he continued: “We have to improve yet. He was telling the team about how Vidarbha returned from the defeat in the final of last year to win the trophy this year.”
