That means I can drive a flock of sheep through the town centre, drink for free in no less than 64 pubs and get a lift home with the police when I become inebriated. What more could you want?

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.

Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.

I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.

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.

It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.