New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.