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

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.

The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

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

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.

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.