“Marte hue out hona chahiye, darte hue nahi” - Abhishek Sharma reveals Pat Cummins’ words in SRH team meetings

Team India and Sunrisers Hyderabad’s opening batter Abhishek Sharma has revealed the team conversations during the IPL 2025 season with their skipper Pat Cummins, in an exclusive conversation on Breakfast with Champions.

Notably, Sharma accumulated 439 runs from 13 innings in the recently concluded IPL 2025 season at an average of 33.76 with one century and two fifty-plus scores. His highest score of 141 came against the Punjab Kings.

“I could not have gotten a better environment (in an IPL team). Just imagine, we were once having our batting meeting, all batters were standing. Vettori asked us if we want to discuss any specific bowlers. We maybe spoke about one or two bowlers. Dan (Vettori) asked Pat if he wanted to say something. Pat got up and faced the five or six batters who were sitting together, ‘Who do you wanna hit? Let’s mark your bowlers. Hit, Hit, Hit’ he said, pointing at us. That’s it, meeting over.

“Cummins told us, ‘In this team, even if we are 50 for the loss of six wickets, the 7th batter should not feel the pressure. Marte hue out hona chahiye, darte hue nahi! (Get out while hitting a big shot, not while protecting your wicket). I am fine with the team being 100 all out, but I don’t want safe scores of 160 or 170.’ He wanted us to back each other and take all bowlers head-on. Cummins would also say: ‘Hit all six balls if you want, me and Dan are with you. But this is the brand of cricket I want. The teams should fear us.’

“And he only says one thing to the bowlers: ‘Batters are doing their job. If they score 250, our job is to just concede 249… We just need to win, even if it’s by one run… If we score 280 runs, you can concede 279, I don’t have a problem. In the end we should win, that’s all.’”

Though SRH had an exceptional IPL 2024 season, ending as the runners-up after losing to the Kolkata Knight Riders in the final, they ended at the sixth rank with six wins and seven losses in 14 games in the IPL 2025 season.

Stay updated with the latest cricket news, match insights, and exclusive updates at BetBarter and download the BetBarter app to start betting today!