Shahid Afridi

If you're playing, or not playing, training is always good to keep you young.

I just want to be given respect and dignity that every senior player deserves after serving the country for so many years.

I am a huge fan of Sachin. He is not only a great cricketer but a humble human being as well.

Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.

There is a lot of warmth and fellow-feeling whenever I have spoken to Virat. It's not that we get a chance to speak a lot, but from time to time, he would drop in a message, and I would do the same.

Every child is a gift of Allah, and every child in Pakistan, to me, is like my own child, so I will do my best to take the message to every doorstep in Pakistan. Reaching every child, every time with the polio vaccine is not only necessary, but it is our duty. This disease can't deter us; we will defeat it.

As it is, I have a busy schedule, and I don't think I have the time for Test matches.

I started playing from the age of 11-12. I loved the game immediately but started playing the game seriously only in 1993-94.

I thank Allah that I have been playing for Pakistan for a long time. This is a big honour for me; I had not even thought so.

The reason for my age being messed up in the records is that when I first appeared for the under-14 trials, I myself really did not know my exact age.

When my family moved to Karachi, I just knew the date and month of my birth and not the exact year. That is why my age was erroneously recorded in the under-14 trials.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.