In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too many deliveries.

Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.

Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.

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.

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

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.

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.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

I fly a light aircraft.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

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.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

I really enjoy politics.

I am not very good at putting on a front.

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.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.

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.

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.

You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.

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!

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.

We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

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.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

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.

The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

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.

Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.

I very rarely watch any television at all.

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.

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.

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

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.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.

It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.