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

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.

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.

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.

My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.

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?