Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.