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

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.

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.

He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling.

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

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.