It's when the runs are not coming that even the minutest of flaws are viewed under the microscope. You look into your game and try to pick every single thing you can improve about it. At the end of it, you emerge as a better player than you were.

I now have a better understanding of my game than what it was in 2013 in my first year in Test cricket.

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

I enjoy the company of overseas people. It's always good learning.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.