Rajasthan Royals

Loki had a good IPL.

Actually, first IPL had a lot of people in Rajasthan who had low-key good IPLs, and people who had excellent IPLs also fro- for Rajasthan Royals.

So-

First, first IPL was, uh, Pakistan special.

'Cause he's got commentating, but he's doing that everywhere.

He played for Rajasthan Royals.

He was doing all these different things, so he was actually traveling more and we saw him less.

But I think he was like, he'd always say you'd rather people say why retiring instead of when.

I got to, you know, play for Australia, get 708 test wickets.

You know, achieve absolutely everything.

What else is there more to prove?" But then he played three, four years for Rajasthan Royals, around one or two years with Melbourne Stars, and then he did the Cricket All-Stars against Sachin Tendulkar.

I, I was in on that.

Love that.

So obviously I'm assuming the large majority of the people listening to this are familiar, um, with the Royals group in general, Rajasthan Royals, Paarl Royals, what was once Barbados Royals, but obviously still part of the fold, um, in, in-

Sure

... whether they're called the Tridents now or not.

Look, the traditional fan may not necessarily be overly enamored by that, but it's, you know...

I do sometimes just look on Twitter or X, and the number of people that I see who have, say, you know, I'm a Man United fan and a Golden State Warriors fan and Rajasthan Royals.

I think I've got that name right.

And so I'm like, oh, that's interesting because that's not me, but clearly that is something that goes on.

And this is the H&J Daily with some of the best bits of this afternoon's show.

You're going to get great benefits this afternoon of listening to some of our finest moments, which included Adrian Durham on England and the big England post-mortem that Thomas Tuchel is involved in, along with Kevin Sinfield and the owner of the Rajasthan Royals.

Of course he is.

And Serena Veegman.

He was brought in to do something different than Southgate and he did exactly the same, basically.

And that's the problem, isn't it? So you don't need a whole committee for that, really.

Well, it's not just the FA kind of, if you like, he's accountable to because a line-up of three specialists in their field, Sir Kevin Sinfield, England rugby skills coach and rugby league legend, Serena Vigman, two-time Euros champion, of course, with the Lionesses, And Manoj Badali, who's the Rajasthan Royals owner and business guru, they're going to sit down with Thomas Tuchel and have a kind of conversation about it.

My son sat down with Thomas Tuchel,

There are two types of structures where some of the teams follow data informed structure and some others follow data driven structure.

So if I need to give an example, the example would be the match between Rajasthan Royals and our Royal Challengers Bangalore.

So the decisions which are being taken by Rajat Pathidar on the field are being backed by the coaches and the analysts.

So, Freddie Wilde is going to be working with his team, especially with the bowling coach, Mr. Salvi, along with the head coach and the batting coach, whoever is involved.

That he had to complete his 4 overs quota within 7 overs of the match.

That is Rajat Patidhar's decision to make.

Whereas if we see the contrast when we see it to the Rajasthan Royals.

The whole control seems to be on the TV that all the decisions are controlled as a play of puppet from outside.

I don't need to change emotion and behaviors because they will just happen automatically.

An example from one of the, um, Rajasthan Royals cricketer, he never obviously played such, you know, big events.

Everything look way too big.

Using the biofeedback system, I found a simple audio of a cricket crowd and a, a video of a stadium.

In athletes cases, it could be you're walking into the stadium, and you're gonna bat, and you have 8- 80,000 people and the whole world watching you, and you freeze.

So how do you change the perception for all these different events?

An example from one of the, um, Rajasthan Royals cricketers.

He was in his, uh, first season, more the substitute.