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

There is an amazing craze for cricket in India.

As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very high hopes from my team members.

Gambhir behaves like he's a cross between Don Bradman & James Bond.

I have seen a lot of top players being forced to retire in not very pleasant circumstances, and I don't want that happening to me.

My wife is from India, and I come to India a lot. I have never faced any security issue.

I have played 20 years of international cricket for Pakistan and not the PCB.

If the captain stands still and looks clueless, then it spreads to the whole team.

I try and keep it simple and wait for the right opportunity.

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.

They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.

So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.

I began as a bowler and batting at No. 8 or 9 at Under-14, U-16 and U-19 levels, so to change myself was really difficult.

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.

Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris. Not to Indians. Not to Pakistanis.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

My thinking is that once the captain sends you at a particular number, then your job is to perform and get runs at that number. Nothing else should matter.

I admire Indian cricket because of the way the sport is run there and how the money they earn is invested back into the game and players.

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.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.