IPL is pure sport. The glitz and glamour is just 15 per cent. 85% is actually professional, hard cricket.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

Bangladesh, despite producing big upsets in the past, doesn't have the art of beating big teams consistently.

I have many, many fond memories of Yuvraj Singh. He started under my captaincy.

In my first year, I won the Premier League, and two cups after that, so I learned a lot from my experience in England, and I think it was all positive.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

To me, we're living in a non-linear world... But the truth is we are linear creatures. Everything unfolds one after the next. And that's the thing we've become disconnected from.