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As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

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

I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and conversations with other people about other things. I was a curious person, and this was my release. I like being challenged intellectually. I hated at the end of the day to talk cricket to someone else.

I have played cricket on my own terms.

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.

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

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.