What was the one thing that you enjoyed the most about the game?
 

The best part of this game is that this game is full of competition because, it's a game where you have a complete unit, it's a team game and, where you have a team game, you have a lot of qualities, different skills, different talents. And that makes this game a little unique, you know, because the competition is always ongoing.

 

How is the game different as a manager from when you were playing? 
 

As a player, you always have the liberty to express yourself the way you want to, switching the role from a player to a manager or to a mentor or a coach is always a challenge, because you need to be more disciplined, you need to be more responsible, you need to be a little more mature. And the challenge was, always accepted because, it just seemed to come naturally. And, it's great because, when you know the game in and out and, when you know the players whom you have been associated for past so many years, it's easy to deal with them. It's easy to get a good rapport built with them. So, I enjoyed as a player and now I'm enjoying as a manager and it's really fun. It's great to be with the bunch of girls that I'm associated with. 

What do you do apart from coaching the team? And how do you manage between the two?

I am working with Emirates group, in the aviation industry as an airport operations officer. 
So, as you rightly said, it's all about having that balance, that whole balance and, its great that, I'm working with the company, which supports this sport and they always encourage me to, go and, express myself in terms of playing, in terms of working. So, I have that liberty wherein I can give time to cricket as well as, to work.

 

Do you see any challenges, for the UAE team? 
 

If you talk about challenges, yes, we have challenges, because, it's a place where a lot of expatriates recite, and, what happens is the players have subsidized their passion considering you know, that they work or study.
So, there have always been challenges wherein, to get the team together at a particular time or day, because of which these challenges, but then, we have always tried to manage, we’ve tried to overcome and some or the other way, we try to get players to indulge in some or the other way.

 

As the manager of the team, what are some of your short-term and long-term goals?
 

Honestly speaking, if you ask me, I believe in short-term goals, you know, because I'm more realistic, take less of stress and quite easy to achieve. And for me, the current, short term goal is to nurture the young talent, give them a platform wherein they can express their talents because at a very young age of 12 and 13, you generally feel shy to showcase your talent. So that's what we want. We want to encourage the young players and nurture some good talents.

 

What is the domestic structure and the national set-up currently? 
 

Domestic structure, if you consider we play quite a few of domestic games or practice sessions. Recently we conducted a fantastic D10 tournament. It was completely live and had an amazing media coverage. And that's something we always need to keep doing, you know, because that's how the players are going to get encouraged. That’s how they are going to get to a next level.
 

And these short formats of the games really help players to keep themselves motivated all the time and playing with boys because obviously boys are superior. So, when you can face that challenge, the playing becomes even more easy.