I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.

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.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.

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

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.