Brendon Mccullum

The legendary Kiwi and RCB batsman on what he's learnt during his long cricketing career.

- Sameer Jha

When you come in at 20, and you’re 36, and you’re still operating, you learn to grow up a fair bit. I think cricket teaches you to take the good with the bad, and also accept and understand different cultures and ethnicities in different ways of doing things in life. It’s taught me to be very humble as well.

I have been lucky enough to have a few personal and professional highs.

At the start of the first IPL, the 158 in that game was something that changed my life. And then after that, scoring 300 – being the first New Zealander to do so. Captaining New Zealand through that World Cup campaign – these are all individual cricketing highlights. Off the field, three kids and being married for 15 years – I feel very blessed to stay in a relationship and a family life while still travelling the world. From a team point of view, I think seeing young guys mature into good men and start to build their lives. Being able to provide them an environment which gives them freedom to learn and develop and mature is probably the one thing I am most grateful for.