“I’m at this stage in life, my career where I’m just doing things, even playing cricket, it gets to a stage which goes beyond numbers and achievements and all those kind of things.
“It’s like a full circle feeling when you start off with just pure enjoyment of the game and then you set out with some goals in your mind and you achieve goal after goal and then through that whole journey you feel like ‘Oh this is the big thing.
“But then you wake up the next morning, it’s still going on, it’s still not over.’ I think the importance of achieving and numbers and all those kind of things, it acts as a motivation factor earlier, but the more you do it, the more you realize that it’s actually not what your purpose is in the game.
“It’s not fulfilling you in a way that’s organic, which is in flow with you know the love of the game.”
India’s next home ODI assignment is against Afghanistan in June, following which the team will also play three ODIs against England in July.