It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.
— Jonathan Agnew
It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.
A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.
When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have to make sure that you don't give the bowlers any more advantages.
Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
Rather than influence the media, I hope that my progress from player to correspondent shows that there is a role for former cricketers in the media, despite the intolerant views of some of my colleagues in the press box.
I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'
Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.
I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't a full-time job; in the winter you had nothing to do.
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.
I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.
You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.
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.
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.
Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.
Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.
In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.
I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.
That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.
Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.
I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.
It takes very little effort to make someone happy.
I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.
Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.
I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.
My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.
No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.
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.
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.
If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.
I am not very good at putting on a front.
I was a professional cricketer from 16.
I fly a light aircraft.
Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.
In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.
I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers.
Fairness matters.
I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.
I very rarely watch any television at all.
My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.
The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.
I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.
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!
It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn't be posturing, abusing.
I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.
I really enjoy politics.
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.
