• Do you feel bad about it or you forget it or you brood about it later in the night?

The day you get out, you definitely think about it. But the next day, you forget it. It is better to forget the past.

• Especially if the team wins.

Yes, but we lost that match in Melbourne. I had it in my mind that I don’t want to repeat that mistake and when we played in Pakistan, in Multan, when I was approaching 200, I took an hour to make those 20 runs so that I don’t get out and my team does not suffer again.

• But you are quite audacious. You were on the verge of making a world record for the first wicket and next morning you played a flashy shot. Is it because you play with heart?

See, with the field that was set, we could not have got a boundary anywhere else. So I thought if I am able to hit a boundary over the keeper we will get the world record. But that was not to be.

• Have you faced this problem in one-day cricket?

You can say that in one-day cricket I am more positive, I am always eyeing to score. I am always excited to hit runs and that way I lose my wicket. I am a stroke-player so I find it difficult to curtail myself but I made efforts to get over this.

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