His career has been plagued with injuries, most recently the one before the Pakistan ODI series last December, and Tiwary said it does get frustrating at times.

"It does get frustrating, but you have to move on. The timing of the injury wasn't right for me, because I knew that in the coming ODIs (against Pakistan) I would have played. Knowing that, and getting injured, makes you feel bad. But I have moved on. There's no point thinking about injuries." According to Tiwary, it's only about scoring runs and not how he gets them. "I can't do much about what people think about me. I can only go out and score. If you look ugly and score, I would take it. I would go for the runs even if I look odd or ugly in facing fast bowlers. I know my game. That's why I have scored more than 5000 runs in seven years of first-class cricket. "I came out to play without thinking of impressing anyone but to make myself happy by scoring runs. I was very conscious of making big runs, to convince myself that I could score runs against a quality attack. "I am a firm believer in destiny. I do my honest hard work and leave the rest to destiny."