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.

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

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

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

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 have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope