Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos