How difficult was it to not get carried away when Virender Sehwag was blazing away in the Chennai Test against South Africa?
I have got used to that by now. In my career, I have batted with some great batsmen and I have been fortunate to play with the likes of Sachin (Tendulkar), Sourav (Ganguly), (VVS) Laxman, Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh (in one-dayers). When they were on song, I had my role to play. I never got carried away and did my job as I was supposed to. I just built on the partnership, which was important for the team at that stage. What is the place of technique in modern cricket? It is required more in Test cricket. There is little time to analyse in one-day cricket and probably even less in a Twenty20 game. But still your basics have to be strong. There is nothing like perfect technique. Each one of us is distinctive; each of us brings his own technique and body language into the game. Good technique is something I would encourage the kids to learn at a very young age. It gets tougher to change as you get older. Do you compete with yourself, wanting to improve, prove a point? I am always looking to i
