Ravi Shastri

Sometimes it might be the junior-most player in the team who may come up with a strategy which we hadn't even thought of and we need to bring that to the table.

I don't want everyone toeing the same line. You have got to have discussions and someone might then think of a fresh strategy, which has to be encouraged.

Dhoni is a superstar. He is one of our greatest cricketers. When you have a career as glorious as that, you become a topic on television.

The boss is the captain on the cricket field. I am in charge of the coaching staff. That's put into place. My job is to oversee things and see things go all right. Who cares who's the boss? At the end of the day, you win and to hell with it, yaar.

If I have done a competent job, I should be respected for my competency.

As long as we know the job we are doing and we are honest to our jobs, as long as support staff we are helping players channelise their energies in the right direction, we are not worried about what critics say.

The job satisfaction that an opener gets no other batsman gets.

Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, the respect they have for each other is unbelievable, so it makes my job in the dressing room so much easier.

I've always maintained that winning and losing will be part of the sport.

India has given too much emphasis on players' records than on the actual performance of the team.

We are a country obsessed by records. For us, hundreds, ten thousand runs, and large haul of wickets are more important than the performance of the Indian team.

In Australia nothing comes easy. It's one of the hardest places to play.