We want Indian cricket to carry on.

I firmly believe Test series should never be two Test matches, three is enough.

The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.

Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn't even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

In a side when you have 15 players there will always be times when there will be opinions that will be different. That is what is needed.

Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.

I have little patience or time for nonsense that's spread around.

As long as we win more than we lose, we are happy.

If you have the leader under pressure always go for him. You need to get stuck in. You have to make the game as tough as you can.

It's not worth scoring thousands of runs if your team keeps on losing.

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

We are a country obsessed by records. For us, hundreds, ten thousand runs, and large haul of wickets are more important than the performance of the Indian team.

Aggressive cricket is a form of cricket where you play to win.

When you are watching a cricket match, and a side is 140 for 5 and another 100 plus to get in trying conditions and when you get that without losing a wicket, not only is that entertainment, it shows all the qualities a sportsperson should have to reach the top level.

There are a few people who are waiting to see the end of MS Dhoni. But great players like him decide their own future.

How do you pick players? When they are good, and Dhoni is the best limited-overs keeper in the country.

It's going to get harder and harder to find guys who will play for ten years in all formats of the game, and whoever does it, good luck to him - he'll be a great batsman or bowler.

I am who I am. I don't try to be something I'm not.

I don't mind being judged or pressure being put on myself.

I believe you learn every day.

I have no doubts about what my talents can do.

I've been basically challenged my whole life.

I'm not a trash-talker.