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.

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

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

I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living