Everything you need to know about Quinten Timber's salary details playing for Feyenoord

Dutch midfielder Quinten Timber is a product of the Ajax academy, having previously spent six seasons at the youth level with Feyenoord as well. He made his Jong Ajax debut in 2018 before moving to Utrecht in 2021. A year later, Timber returned to Feyenoord, becoming Utrecht’s most expensive outgoing transfer at the time.

At Feyenoord, Timber immediately established himself in midfield, quickly becoming a fan favorite. Known for his technical skills, midfield control, and leadership qualities, he earned the captain’s armband at just 23 years old during the 2024-25 season.

Timber’s current contract with Feyenoord runs until 2026, and although he is not among the top earners at the club, he remains a loyal and vital presence in the squad.

So, exactly how much does he earn?

GOAL delved into the numbers with Capology and found out!

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• Quinten Timber's wages at Feyenoord in numbers

  Under Timber's current four-year contract with Feyenoord, the Dutch midfielder receives a weekly salary of €18,077 and an annual salary of €940,000.

  Compared to other leading players in the Feyenoord team, Timber's salary is relatively lower.

  Player	Nationality	Weekly wages in Euros	Annual wages in Euros
  Quinten Timber	Dutch	€18,077	€940,000

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  Top earners at Feyenoord

  Justin Bijlow is the top earner at Feyenoord, with Calvin Stengs and David Hancko in second and third positions.

  Ramiz Zerrouki and Igor Paixao are fourth and fifth in the earnings list.

  Player	Nationality	Weekly wages in Euros	Annual wages in Euros
  Justin Bijlow	Dutch	€56,538	€2,940,000
  Calvin Stengs	Dutch	€47,115	€2,450,000
  David Hancko	Serbian	€45,192	€2,350,000
  Ramiz Zerrouki	Algerian	€33,846	€1,760,000
  Igor Paixao	Brazilian	€33,846	€1,760,000

• Top earners in Eredivisie

  Jordan Henderson, formerly of Liverpool, has the highest salary in the Eredivisie. Sergino Dest from PSV is next. Daniele Rugani, an Italian player, is third, with Ajax's Brian Brobbey and Steven Berghuis in fourth and fifth.

  Player	Club	Weekly wages in Euros	Annual wages in Euros
  Jordan Henderson	Ajax	€90,000	€4,680,000
  Sergino Dest	PSV	€75,385	€3,920,000
  Daniele Rugani	Ajax	€75,385	€3,920,000
  Brian Brobbey	Ajax	€57,692	€3,000,000
  Steven Berghuis	Ajax	€56,731	€2,950,000

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  Highest paid players in the world

  Eredivisie player salaries are significant but lower than those of top global footballers, with none in the highest ranks.

  The top five earners are in the Saudi Pro League, with Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr having the highest salary.

  Karim Benzema, formerly of Real Madrid, is second, followed by Riyad Mahrez, previously with Manchester City and now at Al-Ahli, in third.

  Sadio Mane and Kalidou Koulibaly, both from Senegal, are in fourth and fifth places, respectively.

  Player	Club	Weekly wages Euros	Annual wages Euros
  Cristiano Ronaldo	Al Nassr	€3,846,154	€200,000,000
  Karim Benzema	Al Ittihad	€1,923,077	€100,000,000
  Riyad Mahrez	Al Ahli	€1,003,846	€52,200,000
  Sadio Mane	Al Nassr	€769,231	€40,000,000
  Kalidou Koulibaly	Al Hilal	€667,308	€34,700,000

The centre-back has been mocked in the parliament of Ghana as well as every Premier League ground, but is now reaping the rewards for never giving up

Little more than two years ago, the Europa League felt like the straw that had broken Harry Maguire's Manchester United career. There appeared to be no way back for him after his nightmare displays in United's quarter-final elimination at the hands of Sevilla. But having already changed the narrative of his time at Old Trafford from disaster to redemption last year, Maguire has emerged as the cult hero of United's thrilling journey to this season's Europa League final, their most unlikely flagbearer as they head to Bilbao to face Tottenham.

Maguire's defensive contributions have been key to United remaining the only unbeaten team across all three European competitions, and yet it is his attacking contributions that have stood out the most and which make him Ruben Amorim's not-so-secret weapon against Spurs.

Now that he is a formidable force in both boxes and one of the most influential figures for United as they prepare for the match that could save their abysmal season, it is worth revisiting that harrowing tie with Sevilla in April 2023 which looked like being Maguire's last stand for the Red Devils. It certainly puts his stunning turnaround into context…

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Despite still being captain at the time, Maguire was on the fringes of Erik ten Hag's team heading into that tie with Sevilla. In some games he had even been demoted to the fifth choice centre-back, with Luke Shaw chosen ahead of him on the occasions when Ten Hag fielded a back three.

Maguire, though, was brought on for the injured Raphael Varane when United were 2-0 up against the Spaniards in the quarter-final first leg at Old Trafford. The Red Devils were coasting and looked to have one foot in the semi-finals, only for them to concede two goals within six minutes as Maguire was credited with the equaliser after turning the ball into his own net. He was desperately unlucky, as the ball bounced off Youssef En-Nesyri's head and then Maguire's to wrong-foot David de Gea. Maguire knew nothing about it, but it seemed to sum up his plight at the time: nothing would go his way.

Things got even more desperate the following week amid the cauldron of noise of the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, when Maguire passed the ball back to De Gea and was immediately intercepted, leading to En-Nesyri scoring in the eighth minute. The manner of the goal completely rocked United's confidence and they sunk to a 3-0 defeat and 5-2 loss on aggregate. Lisandro Martinez and Varane's injuries in the first leg was a big factor in their downfall, but more than a few United fans commented that everything had been going well before Maguire came on.

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Maguire started just one more game that season and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup final defeat by Manchester City. He was, therefore, a firm favourite to leave the club in the summer, especially after Ten Hag took the captaincy off him and gave it to Bruno Fernandes. West Ham were the keenest suitors and United accepted a £30 million ($40m) offer, but Maguire refused to go. He was not going to let the abuse, which was at its height at the time, get to him.

As a reminder of how bad it got for Maguire, while many players are targeted on social media by supporters and pundits, almost none hear their name mentioned in parliament as a metaphor for the country's struggling economy. In 2022, Ghanaian MP Isaac Odongo compared his country's vice-president to the much-maligned defender, calling Maguire "the biggest threat at the centre of the Manchester United defence, tackling Manchester players and giving assists to opponents."

A year later, Maguire scored an own goal for England in a friendly against Scotland and was humiliated by the Hampden Park crowd. Gareth Southgate called out the abuse, saying: "I've never known a player treated the way he is. It's a joke. They've created something that's beyond anything I have ever seen." Maguire's mother even intervened, calling the treatment "disgraceful and totally unacceptable" as well as claiming "what Harry receives has gone far beyond football."

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Speaking before Wednesda's final, Maguire sought to play down talk of him being revitalised: "I think probably it was a six to 12 month period where my form wasn't as good as it had been in the previous two years where it was excellent," he told reporters. "I think people still talk a lot about this comeback and things like that, but it's been two years now that I've been performing at high level. It's been a couple of years now. I feel in a good place. I feel really comfortable at this club and my surroundings and the pressure that's involved in it. It's an amazing club and I'm really privileged and proud to be part of it."

After choosing to stay at United in the summer of 2023, Maguire pledged to "fight for my place" at United, and it is fair to say he won that battle. First he convinced Ten Hag and turned the previous situation upside down by winning his place back at the expense of Varane, who had kept him out of the team the previous season. Ten Hag called Maguire "a great leader, a very good defender, very comfortable on the ball", which was quite the turnaround considering he had taken the armband off him months earlier.

He also changed the mind of the Ghanaian MP Odongo, who apologised to Maguire in November 2023 by saying: "Today, Maguire has turned the corner, he's a transformational footballer." Maguire was one of United's most consistent players in a team severely lacking in it, but his redemption story got somewhat lost amid United's worst league finish in Premier League history and as he missed the FA Cup final triumph over City due to injury, which also led to him missing out on Euro 2024 with England.

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Maguire was dealt a further setback in the summer as United signed two new centre-backs in Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui, and the ex-Leicester City star thus struggled for gametime early in the campaign. Rumours began to circle in October, just as Ten Hag was about to lose his job, that United were willing to sell Maguire for as little as £10m ($13m)in the January transfer window.

He returned from injury to find a new coach in Ruben Amorim, and although the Portuguese rotated his squad frequently in his early days to assess as many players as possible, he soon realised that Maguire was a defensive rock who he could not do without as the defender delivered courageous and confident displays away from home against Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal.

And so instead of selling him in January, United triggered the one-year extension in his contract. "He coped very well with his struggles,” Amorim said upon announcing the extension. "There are moments in the career of a player that are different. And when you look at our team, we are starving for leaders on the pitch."

While Amorim instantly saw Maguire's defensive quality, he soon noticed that he could be a real asset going forward, too. Having seen him score crucial headers against Leicester City and Ipswich Town, Amorim decided to deploy the centre-back as a centre-forward when he brought him on as a late substitute against Nottingham Forest in April.

United lost the game 1-0, but Maguire fashioned three chances in his nine minutes on the pitch and had an expected goals (xG) total of 0.6, more than Rasmus Hojlund had in his previous 15 appearances.

"Harry Maguire, when he is attacking set-pieces, is maybe the best player in the team," Amorim explained. "Inside the box, you are not a defender, you are a striker. Put one man who is really good in there to score the goal."

UP Warriorz crashed to 110 all out in the Eliminator

Zenia D'cunha24-Mar-2023A spectacular knock from Nat Sciver-Brunt, the tournament’s first-ever hat-trick from Issy Wong and a return to all-round brilliance powered Mumbai Indians to the Women’s Premier League final with a comprehensive 72-run win over UP Warriorz.Mumbai and Delhi Capitals – the top teams on the points table – will play for the first ever WPL title. Harmanpreet Kaur and Co will take Meg Lanning’s team for the trophy. Only fitting.For most of the WPL, Mumbai were predicted to reach the final directly. They had won five straight matches and looked near invincible… till they lost two on the trot and were suddenly table-toppers no longer.They had to play the Eliminator against Warriorz, the team that had ended their winning streak in the league stage. And in the first knockout game, the Mumbai from the first half of WPL showed up, dominating with bat and ball to reach the final comfortably, if one game late.Sciver-Brunt stands up and deliversNat Sciver-Brunt, the joint-most expensive overseas player at the auction, stood up and delivered at the time Mumbai needed her the most. She had not had the best of games in the last few outings, which had coincided with her team’s downturn in fortune.But in a knockout game, she came good with an unbeaten 72 off 38 balls on a pitch that didn’t look to be the best for batting.Sciver-Brunt was dropped when she was on just 6 by Sophie Ecclestone on the last ball of the Powerplay, and she punished the error heavily. She kept the innings going even as Hayley Matthews and Harmanpreet fell at the other end and then built a 60-run stand with Amelia Kerr in just 37 balls.Sciver-Brunt’s knock was crucial given Mumbai’s under-exposed middle and lower order had struggled to make big runs when the top was dismissed early. The pattern was almost repeated when Harmanpreet fell with just about a 100 on board and the Warriorz spin strength slowly stifling the runs.One moment that stood out was how she took the attack to Parshavi Chopra, who had just dismissed Matthews, after the first boundary-less over of the innings. She slammed the young spinner for 15 runs in the first four balls of the 12th over, an early marker of intent. Her 50 came off just 26 balls, with a cracking boundary and she stayed till the end, with a six even on the last ball of the innings.Shout out to Pooja Vastrakar as well, who slammed 11 off just 4 balls after coming in the final over, including a massive 87-metre six.For Warriorz, the standout bowler was Ecclestone who took two wickets to keep her hold on the Purple Cap. Left-armer Anjali Sarvani got early purchase but Alyssa Healy’s heavy rotation of bowlers didn’t work for her this time around.ESPNcricinfo LtdWong on songIn the second innings, it was another English allrounder than starred for Mumbai.The first hat-trick of the WPL came via an out-and-out pace bowler as Wong put the match out of the Warriorz’ reach in the 13th over with the wickets of the well-set Kiran Navgire, Simran Shaikh and Ecclestone.She had already struck with the big wicket, that of birthday girl Healy, to give Mumbai the ideal start. She then sealed the match with the hat-trick.Mumbai dismissed the spine of the Warriorz’ batting line-up – their three Australians – within eight overs. Navgire, who had a string of poor scores after her opening-match fifty, kept the momentum going and landed some big hits, including a huge 89-metre six.But as is her wont, she went for a big one on a full toss and was caught at the boundary. Thus started Wong’s song.Next up was Shaikh, who was castled with a full delivery she completely missed. Then came Ecclestone, who had a bit of history. The last time these two teams met, Ecclestone had smacked Wong for a six in the last over to hand Mumbai their first loss of the season. This time, she was out for a golden duck with her stumps broken. Wong’s last two wickets were the kind to go in a pace bowling highlights reel.There was more to cheer for Mumbai and the 39,000-odd crowd that showed up. Jintimani Kalita got her first wicket and Saika Ishaque got her 15th, keeping the Purple Cap very much in her reach.

Meanwhile, Jemimah Rodrigues said the WPL would be a “blessing in disguise” for the India players following the World Cup semi-final exit

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Harmanpreet Kaur is confident WPL will help unearth young Indian talent•ICC/Getty Images

India have come agonisingly close to beating world champions Australia in two thrilling knockout games in the last seven months and captain Harmanpreet Kaur believes a tournament like WPL will help bridge the gap between the two teams in the future. India lost out on a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games last year when they fell nine runs short against Australia in the final and recently lost the semi-final of the T20 World Cup against them in close fashion. Harmanpreet was India’s top scorer and took them close with attacking knocks in both games, but the lower order couldn’t close out the chases.Those two losses were, however, much more promising for Indian cricket than the 85-run thrashing India received from the same opponents in the 2020 T20 World Cup final at the MCG.Related

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“I think this is a great platform for all Indian players because we have been missing this tournament for a long time,” Harmanpreet said of the WPL during a virtual press conference on Thursday. “Definitely for Australia and England the WBBL and Hundred have worked very well and after those tournaments they’ve got so much young talent. After the WPL we are also going to get some good talent and I’m sure the difference you’re talking about [between India and Australia sides] we’d love to cut down. When you see good talent coming up, you’re definitely going to make a good team after the WPL.”While chasing 162 at the CWG final in Birmingham, Harmanpreet led India’s charge with a quick fifty and they needed 44 from 30 balls with seven wickets in hand. But India slipped when Harmanpreet and Pooja Vastrakar got out on consecutive deliveries and couldn’t score 11 from the last over. In the World Cup semi-final last month, Harmanpreet again led India’s chase in counterattacking fashion after they were 28 for 3 in pursuit of 173. India needed to score a more comfortable 41 off 34 this time with six wickets in hand but Harmanpreet’s run-out when her bat got stuck just before the crease while completing a second run derailed India again.Delhi Capitals players Aparna Mondal, Alice Capsey, Meg Lanning, Jemimah Rodrigues and Arundhati Reddy•AFP via Getty Images

Jemimah Rodrigues: World Cup loss still haunting usJemimah Rodrigues played second fiddle to her captain in both those losses; her run-a-ball 33 was part of a third-wicket stand of 96 off 71 balls in the CWG final, and a more attacking 43 off 24 was crucial in a partnership of 69 off 41 with the captain in the World Cup semi-final.Soon after being named the Delhi Capitals vice-captain on Thursday afternoon in Mumbai, Rodrigues said the semi-final loss still lingered in her and her team-mates’ minds a week after the game. Rodrigues said having the WPL soon after the World Cup would be a “blessing in disguise” for the India players.”It’s not been easy after losing the semi-finals, a few days were really tough for all of us,” she said. “It took us a while to get out of it, we’ve still not gotten out of it. The WPL is like a blessing in disguise because it’s going to help us get involved and get busy in preparing for this that it’ll help us take our mind off the World Cup. But yes, those thoughts will keep haunting us.”Rodrigues also feels the WPL will help unearth promising Indian players who will make a difference in the future. “We have been pushing the doors for a very long time, we are getting there, we are getting very close. But I am sure the WPL will change a lot for women’s cricket. You will find many superstars coming out from it, many leaders, or many match-winners, I would say.”

Mitchell Starc produced a masterclass in new-ball swing bowling before openers Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head hammered rapid fifties to complete a knockout performance against India and level the series 1-1. India received a thrashing like no other in Visakhapatnam – their heaviest defeat in terms of balls remaining – when they were bowled out for 117 in just 26 overs.Starc was the tormentor in chief with his 5 for 53, his ninth five-for in ODIs, and gave Marsh and Head freedom to bat with no scoreboard pressure; Marsh raced to 28-ball fifty before Head got to his in 29 balls and Australia chased the target down in just 11 overs.Starc got deliveries to swing in as well as angle across to the right-hand batters in equal measure. His work up top allowed Sean Abbott and Nathan Ellis to join hands and run through the lower middle order thereafter. In all, the Australian bowlers were done with their shift inside two hours and 20 minutes, with the three seamers sharing all ten wickets.When Starc got the deliveries to angle across, he tempted Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma to drive away from their bodies, only for both to get dismissed cheaply. Gill was the first to go, out for a duck in the first over, when he chased a full and wide delivery and drove to point, in what was a repeat of his dismissal from the Mumbai ODI. Rohit, returning to the side in place of Ishan Kishan, was out in the fifth over. He had had moved to 13 by relying on leg-side flicks, but then swung big against a wide ball to edge to first slip.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Suryakumar Yadav walked in looking to make up for his first-ball duck from the first ODI, but he suffered the same fate when Starc swing the ball into him again, and had him lbw for another golden duck. In what was another repeat from the first ODI, KL Rahul came in trying to survive a hat-trick delivery. He did that successfully, but could not last too much longer. The half-centurion from the previous game was also trapped lbw by Starc, on 9, with another inswinging delivery that got him missing a shot across the line.At 48 for 4, India needed a recovery job, but that wouldn’t come. Abbott got a length ball to bounce a bit more and Hardik Pandya poked at it only to see Steven Smith take a stunning one-handed diving catch at first slip to rock them further. Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja tried to resurrect the innings, but they failed as well this time. Kohli was trapped lbw by Ellis when, on 31, he swiped across the line to a full ball, and didn’t bother reviewing the on-field decision. Ellis then came around the wicket to get Jadeja edging a catch to the wicketkeeper Alex Carey. At 91 for 7, India were on the mat and the crowd was completely silenced.That India reached triple-digits was because of Axar Patel’s unbeaten 29. He was circumspect at first alongside Kuldeep Yadav as India went past 100. But when Kuldeep and Mohammad Shami fell in quick succession to Abbott, Axar realised the end was coming soon. He smacked Starc for back-to-back sixes but ran out of partners as No. 11 Mohammed Siraj became Starc’s fifth victim after seeing his off stump rattled.Marsh and Head thwarted India’s hopes of staging any kind of fightback. While Head’s 30-ball 51 was dominant when taken in isolation, it almost paled in comparison to Marsh’s 66 off 36 balls.When the full deliveries from Siraj and Shami were put away in the initial burst of overs, both bowlers tried to go short. The openers were equally competent to the short ball, and made use of the day’s best batting conditions just before sunset.Marsh pulled, drove and punched his way to his second straight fifty after his 81 in the first ODI. Head’s boundaries were more streaky but the highlight was his four consecutive fours against Shami in the sixth over soon after Australia had crossed 50. Marsh also launched three sixes in a Hardik over before finishing the game in the 11th.The ODI series now moves to the decider in Chennai on Wednesday. After the way they have put India’s batters in trouble in these two games, Australia will quietly think they go into the final game as favourites.

Big picture: Mumbai gunning for final playoff spot

Mumbai Indians slipped up in their previous match in Lucknow and face a crunch game against Sunrisers Hyderabad to make a late dash into the playoffs. The good news for them is that they are back at home for their last league game, and the Wankhede has been a fortress for them this season.They have won four out of six home matches so far, chasing down totals of 186, 213 and 200. Should they beat Sunrisers on Sunday afternoon, they will finish this season with their best record at the Wankhede. Mumbai’s batters – and Suryakumar Yadav in particular – have been awesome at home, and Mumbai will bank on them against the bottom-placed Sunrisers.Mumbai must win to have a hope of finishing in the top four, and even then they will need Gujarat Titans to do them a favour and beat Royal Challengers Bangalore later on Sunday evening. If net run-rate come into the picture, Mumbai might struggle to make it, unless they beat Sunrisers by a huge margin.Sunrisers were the second team to be eliminated from contention for the playoffs, and need a win to try and avoid finishing last this season. When these two teams met earlier this season, Mumbai won by 14 runs.

The big question

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Tilak Varma has missed Mumbai’s last four matches with injury and faces a fitness test on the eve of the game. Sunrisers should have all players available for selection.After finishing last in 2022, can Rohit Sharma lead his team into the playoffs this season?•AFP/Getty Images

Impact player strategy

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Vishnu Vinod is likely to start if Mumbai are batting first, or come on as the Impact Player to replace Akash Madhwal if they bowl first. However, if Varma is fit, he could play instead of Vinod.Mumbai Indians (Probable XII) 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Ishan Kishan (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Nehal Wadhera, 5 Tim David, 6 , 7 Cameron Green, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Hrithik Shokeen/Kumar Kartikeya, 10 Piyush Chawla, 11 Jason Behrendorff, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sunrisers might stick with the same team that played against RCB. T Natarajan will start and be subbed off for a batter if they bowl first, and vice versa. However, it remains to be seen if Umran Malik returns; he could come in place of Nitish Kumar Reddy.Sunrisers Hyderabad (Probable XII) 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Rahul Tripathi, 3 Aiden Markram (capt), 4 Heinrich Klaasen (wk), 5 Harry Brook, 6 Glenn Phillips, , 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kartik Tyagi, 10 Mayank Dagar, 11 Nitish Kumar Reddy/Umran Malik,

Stats that matter

• Tim David, Mumbai’s finisher, has an excellent record against Natarajan, who is one of Sunrisers’ death-overs specialists. David has faced 16 deliveries from Natarajan in two games, and hit him for 47 runs without being dismissed.
• Sunrisers have won just two of their 11 games at Wankhede.
• The match could turn out to be a six-fest. The 124 sixes hit at Wankhede so far is the most at any venue this season.

Quotes

“It’s just another game for us. Yes from outside it looks like it’s a big game and we have to wait for other results, et cetera, but we know what we have been doing here at Wankhede in the last four-five games. So we know our strengths. So we will back that and focus on that.”

The top-ranked Test bowler says he is a lot more “chilled” and “relaxed” at this stage of his life

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Should India have picked Ashwin?

Having been left out of India’s XI for the WTC final against Australia despite being the No. 1 Test bowler in the world, R Ashwin looks at it as a “stumbling block” in his career and not a “setback”. Ashwin’s omission by India, who chose to play four quick bowlers and a spinner in Ravindra Jadeja, triggered a debate especially after they lost by 209 runs at The Oval, which is one of the more spin-friendly pitches in England.”For me, it’s not a setback,” Ashwin told the and . “It’s just a stumbling block, I’ll move on because I have gone through that. When somebody knocks you down for the first time, you have a knee-jerk reaction. I think you should be knocked down once in a while along your life so that you are used to it and will know how to bounce back. That’s what life is. Whether you are at your peak or not, it is still a setback. The fact that you need to learn how to deal with it is very important.”I would have loved to play because I have played a part in us getting there. Even in the last final I got four wickets and bowled really well. Ever since 2018-19, my bowling overseas has been fantastic and I have managed to win games for the team. I am looking at it as a captain or coach and I’m just talking in hindsight, in their defence. So the last time when we were in England, it was 2-2 with a drawn Test and they would have felt four pacers and one spinner is the combination in England. That is what they might have thought going into the final. The problem is for a spinner to come into play, it must be the fourth innings. The fourth innings is a very crucial facet and for us to be able to put that amount of runs so the spinner can come into play, it’s completely a mindset thing.”To look inwards and say ‘okay, somebody is judging me’ is foolishness. I think I’m not at the stage of my career to think what others are thinking of me. I know what I am capable of. If I’m not good at something, I’ll be my first best critic. And I will work on it and I’m not someone who will sit on my laurels. I’ve never been made that way. So to think of who’s judging me is immaterial.”