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.

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

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

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries

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

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport