A day on from his silky hundred against Bangladesh, the India allrounder explains how he approaches batting and bowling differently

Over the years he has chiseled himself to fit into the bowling all-rounder mould. He admitted that while bowling is a conscious approach, batting demands a behind-the-brain ability to flourish. "Bowling and batting are very separate sports in the same game.

The allrounder says that he is now able to split both, which has helped him improve his batting Allrounders often tend to draw from doing well in one discipline to do well in the other but there is perhaps a chance that R Ashwin 's primary skill might have held back his secondary one.