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Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

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

Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.