Here I got the necessary support from chief coach Ramesh Parameswaran, who had consciously worked on my game skills. The improvement I achieved in the last few months is tremendous and that in turn has boosted my confiedence. With the change of rule where substitution is not allowed during the penalty corners, now it is imperative for all the flickers to perfect the art of tackling and defense play. Unlike other skills, the art of drag flicking needs as partner, or should I say, a team even to practice. See I do get up early in the morning and train in flicking hundreds of balls into the goal. It gives me great joy and I always get satisfaction after a hard day of work out. But unless you have the `pusher' and the PC stopper working with you in tandem, it is not a perfect work-out.

Because of my team, I have scored the hat-trick. They have earned the short corner and my team during the set-piece drills have set-up the short corner perfectly for me and I was able to score a hat-trick. So its team work.

But after a long time, I am very happy. The coach is giving me special duties of marking the danger man of the rival team and both the matches I have done extremely well. Sometimes, you don't get the applause from the spectators. But the important thing is implementing the plan by the coach and the motivation to win that matters. Regarding the format, I think this is the best things for the players. Now they will get exposure. More than the money, this will bring more kids to hockey and overall the marketing of the game is going to give us fantastic results.