In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Irrespective of what happened in the past (the just-concluded Test series), we will play positive and good cricket.

Every series is a challenge. We have prepared ourselves the best we can. We want to enjoy our cricket.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

It was not that a single performance lifted us. It was a hard fight and we played good cricket. But we can't slip up as there is still a lot left in the series.

There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.