Harsha Bhogle

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

Conflict of interest and lack of transparency, though they are global features as we saw post-Iraq, almost define Indian cricket.

For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

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

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.

I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.

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

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.