When Rahul Dravid stepped down and the job went to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, were you disappointed?
I won’t say disappointed. Dhoni is a guy who is always helping the team out and looking out for the best interests of the team. At that point of time I thought that being the captain is not in my hands and it’s not my call. My job is to just try and do the best for the team. It’s the selectors who decide and whoever they think is the best man for the job gets it. I just have to concentrate on my game and make sure that the team goes forward from here. Thinking about being captain and not being captain becomes a personal issue. When it comes it comes, and at the moment we have to put the team first. More than once you’ve spoken about playing with and against the best players. You have some of these in your team. But now you’re playing against the Australians and sometimes it looks as though they’re playing at a different level from the rest, doesn’t it? Yeah, it does. Because they have a great unit. They set very high standards for themselves. When you see them playing, you see a differ
