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Fairness matters.
I fly a light aircraft.
Anybody can have a dip in form.
I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.
Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.
I've never got to the bottom of streaking
In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.
Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.
It takes very little effort to make someone happy.
No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.
The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.
Pietersen is an incredibly confident cricketer, almost brash.
Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.
You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.
We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.
I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.
I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.
Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.
There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.
I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.
I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.
Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.
Any decent coach can make more than enough money just doing three or four T20 leagues.
That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.
Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.
Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.
It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.
It's easy to throw mud at coaches because we don't see - nor often understand - everything they do.
You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.
I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it.
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.
A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.
If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.
I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.
I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'
Virender Sehwag can tear any attack apart. He is audacious, takes risks and has fantastic hand/eye co-ordination.
There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.
Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.
We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.
Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed.
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.
With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.
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.
I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.