You need your seniors: Younis

On a more serious note, he added: 8220;Seniors are needed as their experience counts when the team is in a tight situation. Two or three seniors in a team can always guide youngsters.8221;

Asked whether Twenty20 format is making cricket more youth oriented, he said: 8220;I don8217;t think so. Yeh koi badi baat nahin hai. Any senior can adopt. Sourav Ganguly or Sachin Tendulkar can comfortably play Twenty20.8221;

The Pak vice-captain said youngsters can often finish a match with a great performance, but they can also lose one under pressure. 8220;Players like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid or Shoaib Akhtar have gone through pressure situations thousands of times. They know how to deal with them,8221; he said.

Expressing surprise over the omission of Dravid from the Indian squad for the first two ODIs, he said: 8220;If India win, then okay. But if they lose, they will be forced to bring Dravid back.8221;

Pointing a finger at the administrators of the game in both countries, he said that India and Pakistan have to understand how to deal with seniors. 8220;The juniors have to be groomed under them. When you replace a player like Dravid, Ganguly or Tendulkar you must have someone who can at least be 75 per cent of what these guys were,8221; he said, adding that India and Pakistan are trying to follow the Australians in this aspect but without the back up that the Aussies enjoys.

On the Indo-Pak series pressure he said: 8220;International cricket is all about pressure. But I enjoy it. I just want to perform in a relaxed way.8221;

On his refusal to lead the team just before Pakistan left home for the ICC Champions Trophy, the vice-captain said: 8220;I am not trying to stake claim to captaincy. I am here to support my team and all the youngsters.8221;

On the series strategy, he said: 8220;We are not concentrating on any one player. India now have five to six match-winners, are we have to plan like that,8221; said the 30-year-old. He talked about 8220;youngsters like Robin Uthappa, MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh, all in good form.8221;

But the plan on-field will be different. 8220;A ball comes in a second and goes. So, actually speaking no plan works at that time. Whatever plans you make remains in your mind. Like, I never think that I have to score a 100 because for that I have to face 140 balls. You have to go ball by ball.8221;

A warning, however, was sounded loud and clear. 8220;I have always performed well against India. Even when I8217;m not in form, I strike form. I am sure I will do well this time around as well,8221; he said.

But he still subscribed to the idea of cricket being a 8220;gentleman8217;s game8221;. 8220;I don8217;t care about verbal aggression. You should concentrate on your game because that8217;s good for you, your team and your country. The battle should be with the bat and ball,8221; he said.