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

When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

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

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

If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.

While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.