Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

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

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

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.

If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride