May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!