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One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

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.

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.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

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.

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.