Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.