Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

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.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and invited them in at the close of play each day, thereby confirming for many administrators they had appointed a madman as captain.

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!