A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

Out in the field, you haven't got anyone whispering into your ear saying all sorts of things, you've got to do it yourself.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.