Upasana Konidela Interview With Sunrisers Hyderabad Team | Pat Cummins | Apollo Hospitals | FL

Ajouté : 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]Yeah, one thing I love about Pat Cumins is your presence on the field changes the way the whole team works. It's amazing. You're very calm, composed. You have done to the Australian team which was actually in the bottom and you have raised it to that level where they have won championships. Now we are doing that with SRH. A decade ago we won the team, we won the cup. This is the time we are going to win it. What do you think?

[00:00:29]Uh, thank you. First of all, great to be here. It's a beautiful um looking building and place. So, congratulations on >> what you've done here. Um, I can't take too much credit. I've only played the last three or four games. So, these boys have been flying the whole season. Um, >> I think you're lucky today. You've got the smartest guys in the team, the fast bowlers.

[00:00:50]>> Yeah.

[00:00:50]>> And, uh, I think these guys are a lot of the reason um, you know, why we're at the top of the table. So, I've loved it.

[00:00:56]It's HydroAd's been great to me the last couple of years. It's a very easy bunch of players to look after. Um, everyone knows what they want to do out there, so it's easy for me to stay nice and calm and um, yeah, just let the guys shine cuz they're all all superstars.

[00:01:14]>> Thank you. And, uh, you've been through injuries, sports injuries, and especially I remember in the Ashes series last time, the very critical matches you were missing from the this thing. what was the main injury and how did you recover from it and when do you actually decide that I'm good enough to go and play?

[00:01:33]>> Yeah, so I've had quite a few injuries like most fast bowlers um mainly back injuries, stress fractures and uh I mean to be honest without place like this like you know a very high um like caliber of of care over the years I definitely wouldn't be in the position that I am right now. Um, so there's a lot of testing, MRI, um, a lot of kind of, uh, workload management. They're probably the main things. And then of course you do gym and rehab and things around that. Um, but yeah, it's it's constant kind of cuz they're mainly bone injuries. It's screening um, and kind of monitoring until you get it up to a level where you feel like you can start building up and get ready for for a high the high intensity that a IPL match needs. Are there any objective measures of finding out, you know, when you're fit to go back?

[00:02:27]>> Yeah. Um, again, you know, MRIs definitely probably the most subjective when it comes to how the bone is healing. Um, but we'll also use like we use GPS monitors in the we wear them in the back of our shirt. You might see that in a game. That gives you good data on the intensity that you're bowling, how many balls you're bowling, your your runup speed, things like that. That's pretty good objective measures of training to know that you're ready for a game.

[00:02:52]>> So the technology you see on the screen or the various technology we getting for tracking the ball and everything else I bet that would have been replicated in the physotherapy as well. How much of it is helping you with uh getting them back to their normal activities. So uh first of all like we get all the normative datas and uh we see their uh preseason datas and uh with all the collective datas which we had uh the previous year and see where he is and is that any any lag in that we try to match it probably uh try to offload him and train him more before getting into the major event >> event. Okay. uh once once you've had an injury and you want to recover for example you've had a hectic day yesterday how do you recover from it immediately for the next game because IPL is a quite packed sess season so how do you actually come around that >> yeah when you get into a tournament the playing is obviously the priority so you know I don't do a lot of bowling outside of games it's it's mainly about recovery and for me that's um you know today I did gym so that's you hamstrings, glutes, kind of things that as a fast bowler you need to manage constantly.

[00:04:08]Um, so I'll do that and and most of my focus outside of the game is actually on kind of preparing my plans, but the actual physical prep is mainly done in the gym or resting and you you know there's 14 games in seven or eight weeks. you do most of your work in the games >> and many times I've seen that when the team is down you bowl and that is an amazing quality you have as a captain and that's how a leader should be. How do you mentally prepare yourself when you're down and how do you get the team up?

[00:04:40]>> Um I mean it's it's an IPL game so it's not that hard to get everyone excited and amped up. Um I I think you just you want to get more excited about what what happens if things go right than thinking about what goes wrong.

[00:04:53]Um, so as fast bowlers, the odds are stacked against you a lot in IPL. It's big scores.

[00:04:59]>> Yes.

[00:05:00]>> But it also presents an opportunity to to bounce back even if you have one bad over. You know, your next over could still win that match cuz the cuz the scores are so high. So just trying to problem solve, get better. You're not going to win every game of the season.

[00:05:15]So not stressing too much about it. It's more about how can I learn from this, get better for the next game.

[00:05:20]>> Great. Thank you very much. Now we'll move Yeah, one more question.

[00:05:24]>> I have a question for you. How do you prepare mentally because there's so much of pressure? See, I'm in the sport of archery and we know this amount of pressure you have when we go into the Olympics. Now, how do you prepare for this mental pressure?

[00:05:37]>> Yeah, I'd say two things. One is I actually want to be as fresh as I can.

[00:05:42]So, I actually switch off from cricket as much as I can. Um, and then then I feel like when I need to switch on in the game, I've got kind of enough bandwidth to to give it my full focus. Um, so not spending 24 hours a day wasting my energy before the actual game starts.

[00:05:59]And then the second one is just being as prepared as you can. Um, we do a lot of, you know, we'll sit around the morning of a game. We'll go through a bit of data. We'll kind of plan how we think we want to play. And as a captain, I'll have a plan B, plan C. So I go into the game fresh, feeling like I've got different plans wherever the game takes me. Um, I don't get too nervous. I feel like there's not much more I could have done and I've probably played enough that whatever gets thrown at me, I've seen it before and try and adapt.

[00:06:30]>> Thank you. I've gone to the move young guns of SRH opening game, fantastic over, first over, two wickets.

[00:06:39]>> So that would you were completely on a high at that time. You had an injury I remember 2022 and uh you were struggling to come out of because most fast bowlers go through this. Um how did you come out of it? What made you come out of it and who was the main people who helped you?

[00:06:57]uh actually I had also stress fracture before L4 so I recover from that like I took 9 months for I didn't play cricket I didn't do anything and all didn't drive car and all anything but I know that's time I have to enjoy and I have to work on that then I prepare myself then I just love and I just started playing cricket and now I'm doing good so I'm happy >> so mostly building up on your strength and everything gradually >> yeah okay great thank you so all the best for the next so And uh the another sensation we have right now is Mr. Malinga. He's been doing an excellent job with the ball. I think that's why we have been winning games. I think it's because of you because the batting has always been good. The bowlers came to the party this time. So how do you train to get your accuracy right and how what are the things biomechanically which have worked with you with the physiotherapist has really helped you? Uh I get that accuracy from practices. Uh because uh I I practice a lot and I bowl uh one sport bowling and doing batsman and I get that uh patience to the game as well and I uh like to bowl sport bowling much.

[00:08:21]>> Okay. Thank you.

[00:08:23]Now another sensation.

[00:08:27]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:38]Captain support.