It's not easy bowling off-spin in one-day internationals with only five men allowed on the leg side.

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

Politicians as diverse as Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe have been quoted at our team meetings. That is how political England cricket tours have become.

Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.

If you try and cover all your bases, like the ECB tend to do, you end up with muddled decisions.

I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.

Normally I don't sleep much during a Test match.

Pressure is the biggest single factor in Test cricket.

I want to play 100 Test matches for England.