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.

Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

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.

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