I have always wanted to play with top players and ICL has some of the best domestic players and the competition should be exciting.

Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.

Obviously, it’s good to play for India; it’s been a dream."

Fitness is also something I have worked on, especially because I know I have to bowl a lot more if I want to play for the country.

There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.