•If I’m in the cricket stadium at Mohali and my guest is not an active cricketer, who else could it be but I.S. Bindra. Welcome Mr. Bindra.

Thank you, Shekhar. It’s nice to be on your show.

•It’s nice talking to you in what really has been your creation—the finest cricket ground in the country.

It has been a team effort. We are a wonderful team and we’ve been working as a team. That’s the result you get when you work as a team.

•This dressing room looks like a first-class lounge at an international airport.

We are happy to keep adding facilities. We are still a long way from being the best ground in the world and our objective is to be the best. There is no reason why what they do in stadia abroad can’t be done in India. We’ve got more money in the game.

•I’m glad you say this because more and more people are beginning to say it, though in the past we were shy to admit that we generate so much money, that we are a big source of funding around the world.

We had some business people with conservative outlook who said one should never talk about making money because you invite the wrath of the government, you invite the jealousy of the media and you get on everybody’s wrong side. But at the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with it. We have to get over this feeling that making money is a crime. We’ve had this feeling in the country for too long. Just as the country is getting over this mindset, the cricket board is also getting rid of it.

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