Having relinquished the job as India's cricket coach, John Wright says he will return home a satisfied man after giving his best for a side which is "the most wonderful team in world cricket to watch."
Wright, for whom the series against Pakistan was the last assignment, said coaching India was the most humbling experience and he devoted most part of his tenure in working out a relationship with the players.
"I have given everything... If I look at myself in the mirror at night, I can say I have given it my best," Wright said in an interview published in the latest issue of The Week magazine.
The New Zealander singled out the win against Australia during the home series in 2001 as the high point of his stint as coach, saying he would be lucky to see anything like that happening again.
Asked to pick one moment which he will cherish the most, Wright said, "it will have to be the Australia series at home in 2001. It was early in my career but aah!!! what games, what quality of cricket, what passion in the crowd!
"Everyday was just wonderful. I don't think I have ever seen anything like it and I will be lucky if I ever see it again."
Wright also conceded that he was at odds with Indian captain Sourav Ganguly sometimes, but it all was aimed at making the latter a better captain.
"Sourav and I are great friends. We are a odd couple sometimes. He is the captain and my job is to make him a better captain, and hopefully that is what we have worked towards," Wright said.
"...There are times when I have probably given him tactical advice and he has done the opposite and it has worked. So, at the end of the day I always felt that the captain is the man in charge."
Wright said captaining India was a tough job but both he and Ganguly were fortunate that they had the likes of Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kumble who had been tremendously supportive.
On the criticism by former cricketers when he took over as coach in 2000, the 50-year-old said "there will always be people who think you are either do a good job or a bad job. I can imagine the reaction in New Zealand if an Englishman was appointed the coach of the All Blacks!
"I hope I have proved that an outsider can make a reasonable fist of it."
On how the youngsters in the side adjusted with him, Wright said "what you really want in the team is peer pressure and they had such wonderful role models.
"From my understanding, the boys enjoyed it. I hate the term senior-junior. For me there is no such thing."
Wright said he would miss each and every member of the team who were very special.
He said there would be many elements of the job that he would miss and that life for him could become very boring. "But I think the change would be good for the team. There would be other challenges for me."
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