I never want to shy away from a challenge.
You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.
I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.
Take up a challenge and treat it as an opportunity. Once you do that and succeed, all you want in life is more such opportunities.
Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.
If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.
One-day cricket and T20s have vastly different identities and one cannot look at it through the mere lens of 'white-ball cricket.'
Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.
It's a privilege and an honour to be a part of the Indian team setup.
Individual don't matter, and we should all work in the best interest of Indian cricket. It should take the centre-stage.
When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.
I am used to challenges, bring on another one.
When you set out on a journey, you set the bar high but you don't know what you can achieve.
Sometimes when you are playing non-stop international cricket in all formats - which was the case with Jadeja - you do well one day, get hammered the next, and immediately the spotlight is on you. That eats into you.
With Virat Kohli, what you see is what you get.
In local cricket, I scored big hundreds and picked wickets against good teams.
Opening for the first time in Test cricket, I scored 128 against the likes of Sarfraz Nawaz and Imran Khan.
I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.
The beauty of Test cricket is all about playing an opponent in their backyard or defending home turf under challenging conditions over five days - dominating each session, dominating each day, picking 20 wickets to win a contest. That's historically been cricket's most fascinating gift.
