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 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 can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.

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

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

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.