As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Some people call it fearless, some people call it confidence. And I feel I'm confident of whatever I do.

At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.