I've got a very soft spot for Mohammad Amir. As a person and as a cricketer, I admire him greatly.
I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.
Fielding is about attitude and wanting to get out there and get it done.
I was always really worried about the conditions in India, especially with a group of young players. You can sit and you can tell players what it's like to play there, but until you've experienced it, you don't comprehend it.
I am not going to tolerate players turning up unfit. They are professional athletes representing a country.
It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.
To be able to close off a run chase or finish off when you are setting a target is a real skill.
I enjoy seeing young players given the opportunity and then perform and go on to have fulfilling careers.
It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.
I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.
The backing I have received form the PCB is second to none. They have allowed me to do what I want to do for the best. I really think that we are on the right track. I am loving this Pakistan job.
Every time we play for Pakistan, we are playing to win.
Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.
I've never been a massive advocate of international Twenty20 cricket except a World Cup every two or three years, because that gets the best players together.
That unpredictability tag always sort of hangs around the Pakistan team, but that makes us very exciting as well.
What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.
For Pakistan cricket to stay relevant and strong, the best players have to be available all the time - it's a challenge faced by everyone, but one that particularly relates to us because of our mainly amateur, pretty random, and certainly too thinly spread domestic structure that feeds the national team.
I love the time I spend in Lahore and learn more about the culture every day.
I have to say that I have developed a real passion for Pakistan cricket.
People think that South Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having worked in both environments, I found that theory to be untrue.
