I just enjoy batting, scoring runs, and contributing for my team.
It's not as if we can't play bounce well or do well only in India. It's just that in one or two matches,the batting collapses sometimes.
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.
In T20, you don't have time to get distracted - it's so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don't actually think about anything else.
I'd say that probably 95 per cent of batting is mental and decision-making.
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
The most important thing is to keep our basics strong in both batting and bowling.
The closer I got to Essex 2nds, the more technical I got with my batting.
At first I didn't realize that I had fractured my thumb amidst the momentum of batting.
Yes, outside India, my batting performances have been highlighted more.
My batting took some time to develop - I was batting at No. 10 initially but my bowling took off.
When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.
There's a difference between batting at number four position and batting in the lower order.
You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.