I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

I leave with sadness, but also with pride.

On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.

I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.

The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.