Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.

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

Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life it is important.

Pravin Tambe is bigger inspiration than me for young cricketers

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.