Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

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

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.

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.

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

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

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.