Veteran India pacer Mohammed Shami named former India batter Shikhar Dhawan when he was asked about Team India’s funniest player as well. While talking about Dhawan’s funny character, Shami shared that the player would sometimes be extremely happy despite losing a match, which also helped to lift the mood of the players in the dressing room.

“Shikhar is very funny. He does those things. Say we lost a match, everyone comes and sits in the change room. Shikhar wants to do something different. He will just laugh very loudly. If I ask why are you laughing, he says because we lost. He does such things. Anytime, he will stand on the table and start dancing to Punjabi music. These things create that atmosphere in the dressing room. We also enjoy it because winning and losing keep happening. When you are playing the whole year, you will win and lose. All these things are there. But no one then goes into a very sad mood in the dressing room,” Shami said on cricketnextofficial.

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However, Shami also shared his first interaction with his India teammates after joining the side. He said that former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh asked him to stand on a chair and give a speech. He got nervous and could only give a brief introduction as well.

“The first time I joined the Indian team, I did not know how things were. There was a team meeting a day before the game. When I walked in through the door and looked around, there was not one name that had not come in my dream. I just sat quietly. Yuvraj Singh asked me to stand on the chair. What can you tell him? So I did that. He told me to give a speech. I had forgotten everything after seeing all the names. I could not say much. I just told my name and where I was from. I could not say more than that as I could not remember anything,” Mohammed Shami concluded.