If you're playing Test cricket you could bowl 20 overs in a day. I could play about five T20s in that space.
In T20, even when you are in form and you feel like you are making good contributions, you are going to only face 30 or maximum 40 balls in the position where I bat in the middle order.
Test cricket is still important, so are ODIs, but T20 should be there too because of the crowd factor.
In red ball cricket, with the field placements, you can look around, take your time, because you have five days to play, whereas in limited overs cricket, you have limited number of balls to play and score.
According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
When I was growing up, we would play a 10-over or 15-over game, and the asking-rate would always be high, and I would end up scoring 30 or 40 runs in 15 balls, so I built that mindset right from the beginning and still continue to bat in the same manner.
It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.
The likes of Ishant Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have done well, and so has Jasprit Bumrah in shorter formats.
You have to just adjust to the conditions quickly because there is a big difference in 50-over and 20-over cricket, and if you back yourself, you will do well.
You need different skills to do well in 50-overs cricket. You need completely different skills to do well in Test cricket. You need different skills to do well in T20 cricket. It is not the same.
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
T20 may be fast, but still, you never plan for a T20 - the same way you don't plan for the other formats.
T20 is an unpredictable format, so you cannot rule out any team's chances.
One-day cricket must be taken with equal importance to Test cricket.
In Twenty20s, you have to bowl a lot fuller, especially at the death, and you've got to be mindful of what you're doing. But it's still cricket.
We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.
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.
I like to take wickets and see wickets and chances and I think in T20 cricket you have to risk a boundary to take a wicket.
In the one-dayers, it boils down to who performs better on the day of the match.
You have T20 and that also plays a part in some of the shots batsmen play. You see guys playing the same shots in T20s and Tests and are sometimes lucky to get away with it.
I always found one-day cricket a lot harder. I had to change my game.
Even though I am someone who played one-dayers more, I have equally prepared hard for the T20 format too.
I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.
I never thought in my dreams that I would score fifty in One-dayers: not fifty but match-winning knock because One-Day is a kind of format which doesn't suit my batting, as I am not the kind of batsman who can hit big sixes.
Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.
