"He was playing very well with no tension. That day, he was singing some Kishore Kumar songs. He was not feeling any kind of tension," Raina, who cracked 55 in a 140 run-stand for the third wicket with Sehwag, said while addressing the `India Today Youth Summit` here. Asked whether he too joined him in singing, Raina said "No, I was only on 30 at that time. So, I did not."
Sehwag`s 219 had 25 boundaries and seven sixes as he smashed the West Indian bowlers all over the park to help India post a mammoth 418 for five in 50 overs. In the process, Sehwag overtook Sachin Tendulkar`s 200 not out made against South Africa. Apart Raina, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and BCCI`s selection committee chairman Kris Srikkanth was also present at the Youth Summit.
Srikkanth said he was confident about Indian team`s good showing in the upcoming Australia tour. "We are very confident. We are doing well. Most importantly, every member of the team is contributing," Srikkanth said. Off-spinner Ashwin, the latest name to be related to the deadly `carrom ball`, said he actually "practised it since his "gully cricket days".
"My friends and father wanted me to work on it and that`s how it worked," the lanky spinner, who was declared man-of-the-series in the Test rubber against the West Indies for scoring a century and bagging over 20 wickets, said. Replying to a query whether he was focusing on batting these days, he said he was working on all aspects of the game.