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The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.

It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.

If you ask me the best bowler, then Wasim Akram was the best bowler because he had a lot of variety. Even when you were batting on 100 or 150, you're not very sure... He could still get you out. That was his forte.

The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Four hundred wickets is 400 more than I thought I'd get.

Against Bermane Stiverne, they said he was going to be the toughest test, but I passed that with flying colours.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia.