"Viru pa is an amazing person! In the nets, we inform the batsman of our hypothetical field and bowl to them. Sometimes, when I don't bowl to my field or do something wrong and Viru pa happens to see it, he stops his own batting and comes to talk to me. He tells me exactly where I went wrong and goes out of his way to help me become a better cricketer," Sandeep was quoted as saying by IPL official website.
On Laxmipathy Balaji's inputs to him, Sandeep said, "Bala paaji has been really helpful when it comes to preparing me for situations where I might get hit for runs and will have to maintain my cool. This is his seventh IPL and he has faced a lot of difficult situations while bowling. Talking to him about it will keep me better mentally and physically equipped to face such situations when they arrive."
Sandeep said it was Kohli and South Africa's AB de Villiers who were the most difficult batsmen in the RCB rank to bowl at.
"Virat with the new ball and de Villiers with the old (are the two more difficult to bowl to). Virat has a very good technique to play the new ball and batting one-down for India, he has the experience of handling some of the best new-ball bowlers in the world," he said.