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 I am enjoying my game: Kartik
10th Oct 2007 23:00 IST
Agencies
After wading through lonely moments in life when he was out of the team, left-arm spinner Murali Kartik has now become a matured and tough cricketer who enjoys the game and does not feel the pressure to perform.
Kartik, who recently got his 14th recall to the Indian team after a gap of 20 months and proved his worth in the fourth ODI in Chandigarh, said he was no more a youngster who would buckle under pressure at the big stage.
"I was not under any pressure in the Chandigarh match as I have come to a stage in my life when I am enjoying just playing. Probably the pressure would have been felt had I been 21 or 22 years of age," said the 31-year-old spinner, who made a memorable comeback by choking the Australian run-chase at the death and helping India win their first match of the series.
Admitting that he was bit demoralised when he suffered a shoulder injury after the tour of Pakistan last year, Kartik said, "the period away from the game (after shoulder trouble) was a bit difficult. They were lonely moments. And then when I came back I was not part of the Indian team."
Kartik said captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's confidence on him was as good as the faith shown to any other member of the team.
"Whenever you are picked to play you give 100 per cent and the confidence factor for the captain is there about all eleven in the team, not just me alone," he said. |
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