“I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.”
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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.
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.
I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
