There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.

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.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

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.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.