Interviewer: Mihir Bose
He is also known as “Jammy” but that is because his father worked for Kissan, the Indian jam manufacturer. He is the man whose batting has done much to help India become the No1 Test team in world cricket.
We are sitting on the terrace of a Dubai hotel. The Indian Premier League has just finished, England are about to become the World Twenty20 champions and so our chat turns naturally to his Bangalore Royal Challengers team-mate Kevin Pietersen.