There's never been a weak South African or Australian team. They are fighters.

Let me say this: MS Dhoni has earned the right to retire when he wants to.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the undisputed leader of the Indian cricket team.

It's important to have the right mix of experience and youth.

With Virat Kohli, what you see is what you get.

It is the cynicism that kills all the joy. I'm not that kind of a guy. I look at the glass half-full.

I focus on the present.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'

I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.

As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in mind as they have done exceptionally well.

In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.

Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

I always considered myself an allrounder.

It's always the captain's team and it is the leader who calls the shots.

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

I never want to shy away from a challenge.

You don't come to a cricket ground to draw a cricket match.

I like honeymoons. The more the merrier.

An 'A' grade cricketer like Pujara should get a massive amount where he is not bothered whether he plays IPL or not.

I was a very determined cricketer. I treated the opening position as a challenge. Big names and tough attacks brought the best out of me.

We all know the soil in western India has a reddish tinge. In cricketing parlance it means a ticket to party for the spinners at the start and end of a cricket season.