I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.

When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.