When I was aspiring to play for India, I'd look at the Ricky Pontings and the Matthew Haydens and think they were very intimidating.
Every cricketer dreams of coming into the Indian side.
When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.
My dream is to play Test cricket.
Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.
I have never tried to hide my ambition to work in county cricket one day.
I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for low scores. It turned out I didn't have the talent.
I wanted to be a cricketer. But I was not skilled enough to be a national-level cricketer.
