The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

I'm so disappointed at what's being written and said about Anil Kumble ... He's been around for over 18 years and his achievements do all the talking.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.