'After I won the final I gave my father a call.' 'He said the family had followed my progress on TV and saw that I had won.' '"We are going to sleep now," he said.' 'I told him 'I am a world champion and you are going to sleep!'
'I could not believe that the prime minister knew me.'
India's 572 athletes hope to return home with an overflowing treasure chest of medals.
'In 2015 after fighting in the same card as Vijender Singh, I was flying and thought my life is made.' 'But I fell flat. I didn't get any fights after that.' It was heartbreaking.' 'I don't want to go through that again.' 'Therefore, I will fight and go to office the next day.'
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'I have realised that to be happy, you don't need luxury in life.' 'Simple things in life make you happy.'
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'T20 cricket is popular because everything is faster and people want things quicker.' 'Test cricket is going to battle, but I would like to think that it is going to be around and stay around because if you ask Virat Kohli what gives him ultimate pleasure, it would be playing Test cricket for India.'
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Lungi Ngidi bowled the most economical figures of this season's IPL to uproot Punjab's innings.
Mohammed Siraj was given the responsibility to take RCB home and he repaid Skipper Kohli's trust.
Once again, it was the teacher's son from Vadodara, that mysterious practitioner of lethal magic at the death who ensured that Rohit Sharma's side ended the night an improbable fourth on the IPL points table.
Kane and Shikhar took the game calmly over the line to book a berth in the playoffs and all but end Delhi's chances of progressing in the competition.
Once again, the Sunrisers bowlers did the job on a slow track.
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