Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.
It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
I need at least two months to try and figure out where the centre of the bat is.
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.
It really doesn't matter honestly to look at the scoreboard where it's 20 runs and 2 wickets down or 200 runs, 2 wickets down, because... if you're positive inside it really doesn't matter. It just requires different planning sometimes.
I just want to continue the way I am going.
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.
I fail sometimes, I succeed sometimes, so that's fair enough. It's a package deal. It comes with that package: failures and success.
I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
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 there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.
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.
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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 used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh
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