How India became No. 1

With all due respect to the previous generations of batsmen and those that are to follow, I would not hesitate to say that if this batting line up had not achieved it, it would have been difficult to achieve it at all. Let’s take nothing away from the bowlers, who have been outstanding in all conditions. The seamers took wickets on a batting beauty in Kanpur, the spinners took wickets in by and large unfriendly conditions. My two main bowlers Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh have really responded to the challenge of leading the attacks with youngsters at other end.