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.

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

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.

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.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

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.