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.

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.

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.

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

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.

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.