Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has recently in an interview that the Indian cricket team will focus to be on top in test ranking rather then thinking playing safe cricket against England in the upcoming home series in November.

While talking to media in an interview, Sachin said, “It’s not about revenge (the home series against England). It’s taking pride to play for India and for me that is really important. It (revenge) can be against any other nation but I take lot of pride in playing for India. That’s what matters to me. It doesn’t matter with whom we play. As long as we produce quality performance expected from us, that is important.”

Further, the master blaster said, “For four years, I mean post-2007 World Cup till the 2011 World Cup, we played quality cricket and got to No.1 ranking. No.1 ranking does not happen overnight. It takes some time and only when you produce good cricket for number of years. We were able to get there but slipped down. It’s important to again get back there.”

Meanwhile, team India has lost eight successive test matches against England and Australia during their last season, still Sachin Tendulkar hopes to make a strong comeback against England in November.

He said, “I wouldn’t say that World Cup victory had something to do with that (losses in England and Australia) and the players became complacent or over-confident. It was nothing like that.”

He said, “We all know our responsibilities. You go out there to perform well but sometimes it just does not work. They have been tough tours for us and we need to regroup ourselves and take stronger steps forward and see to it that these performances don’t get repeated.”