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It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.
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It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.
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I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.
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That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.
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When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have to make sure that you don't give the bowlers any more advantages.
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I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.
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I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.
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Rather than influence the media, I hope that my progress from player to correspondent shows that there is a role for former cricketers in the media, despite the intolerant views of some of my colleagues in the press box.
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Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.
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I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.
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I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't a full-time job; in the winter you had nothing to do.
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Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.
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No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.
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Adelaide is terribly underrated. There are lovely wide streets, beautiful parks, one of the most scenic cricket grounds, wonderful beaches, and vineyards nearby. The food and the people are lovely, and it's not too big and sprawling.
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I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!
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The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.
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It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of the time for me, it flows over you. But when you're not there, you look at it in a slightly different way. You pick up things.
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If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.
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The absolute key difference between television and radio is the ability of radio to communicate. With television you can watch the screen and your mind can be anywhere. On radio it requires a certain amount of discipline from the listener to follow what's being said.
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Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.
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I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.
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Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.
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Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.
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A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on.
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As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.
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There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.
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What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.
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When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.
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Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.
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On your debut, you just want to get into the game. I remember when I played my first Test, we bowled first and I went wicketless in the first innings. I felt like I was searching to make a contribution.
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What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.
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Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He's not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.
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Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.
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It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
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