You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

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

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

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

While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

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.