Playing domestic cricket

isn't easy especially when you don't know what to do to get back to the national team.

Aakash Chopra in a forthright interview with Nagraj here

A nice excerpt

Last year you spoke about how Rahul Dravid met you at Hove and said you were in contention for the opener's slot still. What has Virender Sehwag's advice to you been?

Viru will always give you a perspective in as few words as possible. You might like it or might not but he has your best interests at heart. For example, when I wasn't picked this time for the Australia series, he said "Aakash, you'll play for India. If myself or Gautam [Gambhir] don't make runs in the next four Tests, your name might come again, but if both of us make runs then your name will not come up." He is black and white always in what he says or does. And you need to take him at face value.

One more reason for me to love Viru. I wish I could always talk in black and white too (in addition to hoping to play cricket like him)