I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

I don't like discussing cricket off the field.