You know you are an Indian cricketer when…

(Karthik Narayan)

1. The number of ads you have acted in/ languages you have learnt is more than the runs you have scored/ wickets taken in the last few matches.

2. You got a chance to play for the Indian team a week after you turned 32.

3. In case you don’t belong to 2 above, the only reason that you were chosen was to prove that the average age of the Indian team was less than 26 and it was a very "young team"!

4. Your previous test match or ODI was the maximum of the following – six months or missing 25 matches between matches.

5. You were going to get married and so in order to impress the bride and the in-laws to be, you played exceptionally well and thus won the hand of your bride.

6. You were told by the coach that you would not play for the next two matches due to your poor form, so you scored a "battling half century" or picked up 4 wickets or more against a team like Kenya or Zimbabwe.

7. You are the captain when you realise that the last time you had spent more time at the pitch was during the toss!

8. You spent a lot of time touring places that you were offered a job of being tourist guide.

9. You suffered tongue injuries of talking too much to the media and in the ads, and later claim that you are the strong silent type.

10. Your idea of being aggressive is to bowl wides so that the batsman cant hit you for a boundary in that over and when you bowl a legal delivery, its hit for a boundary anyway.