India, Sept. 5 -- Former Indian cricketer Ishant Sharma has spent close to two decades in international cricket, and in that time he has seen what it takes to keep going as a fast bowler - the long spells, the injuries, the comebacks, the need to keep pushing when the body doesn't always agree .

With Teacher's Day today, Ishant finds himself thinking back to three people in particular - Shravan Kumar, Jason Gillespie and Ayush Mehendiratta, who shaped him at different stages of his career and taught him lessons that went far beyond just bowling a cricket ball.

"Shravan sir taught me everything," he says about his first coach in Delhi. "He made sure I always had that hunger and desire to be there, and that is something I've carried throu...