is broken or whatever youve been handling this pain really well if you need ill give you a painkiller i told him that i dont want to take a painkiller and try to bear the pain and i carried on i couldnt hold the bat properly it was difficult for me to grip the bat and i wasnt able to play my natural game after i got hit i wasnt getting a proper grip from my bottom hand to play my shots it was difficult to bat after that hit but i told myself that this is the most important day of the series that particular session and the following session as in from lunch to tea and the last session was very important so i didnt want to take any chance i told myself that ill continue to bat there was no plan to retire at all at any time have you recovered from the blows to your body how many marks are still therealmost there are still some marks the blood is still there theres still a bit of a bruise and a bit of pain in that but its nothing significant i mean only when i touch that spot i experience pain otherwise things are good nothing seriousdid the aussies sledge you during your knockthey have sledged me but it doesnt affect me because im more focused on what i want to do so even if someone says something i dont pay attention to what they say i know my gameplan well i know what i want to do when im at the crease i dont get disturbed by what theyre saying i continued doing what i wanted to dodid lack of match practice hurt you in preparing for the tough tour of australiayes i completely agree with this however that was a situation we were coming out of covid and not many players got match practice if we observe yes the guys who were a part of the ipl got some match practice but the guys who didnt play in the ipl even from the australian team maybe some of them did play some firstclass games but in india the ranji trophy hadnt started so there was no option of having some match practice if we had match practice things would have been a little different for me match practice was the first two tests where i was trying to find my rhythm and concentration again yes it took a little bit of time if you look at my success it came in the third and fourth tests when i got my rhythm back and i started playing well so it took a little bit of time for me to get into the rhythm again your father arvind pujara said that the aussies blocked your runs but couldnt get you out do you agree with his observationhes absolutely right if you look at the number of balls which ive faced in this series its still on