If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.