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.

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

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

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also. I just really didn't understand why he wasn't returning my phone calls, or why I couldn't see him whenever I wanted to. That was the most hurtful thing to me.

'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.

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