We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

Adelaide is terribly underrated. There are lovely wide streets, beautiful parks, one of the most scenic cricket grounds, wonderful beaches, and vineyards nearby. The food and the people are lovely, and it's not too big and sprawling.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.

It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of the time for me, it flows over you. But when you're not there, you look at it in a slightly different way. You pick up things.

If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

The absolute key difference between television and radio is the ability of radio to communicate. With television you can watch the screen and your mind can be anywhere. On radio it requires a certain amount of discipline from the listener to follow what's being said.

I am not very good at putting on a front.

I really enjoy politics.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

I fly a light aircraft.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.

A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on.

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.