Ravi Shastri

We live life in the present.

You have to look at youth in whatever you do, in whatever walk of life at some stage.

Life is much like batting, treating every ball on merit.

MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.

I believe that tours should be only three Tests. With the amount of these things that is taking place, you will find that once you go for five-Test match series, 80-90% of the times the home team will win and you will see teams going straight down after the third match.

As an opener, your mindset has to be different. When you need to open in Tests, you might get out in the first 10 balls.

Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.

I am more into fine-tuning, mindsets, and how you play the game. Very rarely will I go and tinker with a player unless I think it is needed.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

As far as I am concerned, I have never seen any Indian batsman perform better than Virat on Australian soil keeping Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in mind as they have done exceptionally well.

My job is to do exactly that with every player - to put him in a frame of mind where he is thinking only about his role and he is thinking about the team he is playing for and, of course, the opposition which we always respect.

Captains have their own personalities and the best ones make players adapt to their thinking and methods.