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

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

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.

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

It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne

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.