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

I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.

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.

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

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.

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.

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