I'm not keen on making predictions.
A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.
I'm not really superstitious - I don't have any lucky charms or a mascot.
If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.
Cricket is great, but I'm not as comfortable with everything else that goes with it.
When I have a day off, I will have a day off.
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.
My family is not a distraction. They're the most important thing in my life.
It's a big part of my life, listening to music and watching TV.
I'm not too good with packing. I always have every intention of doing it the week before and then leave it until the last moment - but at least I do it myself, I don't leave it to the missus.
I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.
I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.
I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.
Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
I like to think I'm calm. Sometimes I have arrived at the ground in the morning in a bad mood - you're not always going to be in the best of moods are you? - but by the time you get into the ground and you have a brew then it's normally fine.
If you're batting and you go off on one it can't really help you.
Sure, you can do without the hard personal comments, but it doesn't really happen apart from a few isolated incidents.
I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
When it comes to sledging, I think people often get the wrong view.
It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.
I'm not someone who needs to bat and bat to be in form.
We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.
Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.
While I'm at second slip I'm not just thinking of what I'm going to have for tea. I'm considering the match as well, wondering how I can help, if there is anything I can offer.
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