But, without a doubt, my favourite thing? It's sitting in a change room like this after a match. There's no time frame on how long you'll sit there. There's no formality. You're just enjoying each other's company, thinking about cricket.
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
We want to inspire cricket fans and enhance their love for the game as well as bring new people and children into the fold and encourage them to pick up a bat.
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
My secondary schooling was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, so I'm fond of that part of the world. It's quintessentially English, with village greens, pubs and cricket pitches, and resonates strongly with me.
Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.
We should be looking to inspire every living person in this country to play the game of cricket.
I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.
For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.
When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
Cricket was deemed too posh where I came from, and I'd never have risked walking home through the estates in my whites. My club played some of the posh schools. I'd have the cheapest kit, but I loved those games. As soon as the posh lads opened their mouths and you heard their accents, the stakes were raised.
In the 1950s, when we went to Lord's, you had to sit down, and it was very prim and proper. It was only in the 1960s when we started to do well that West Indians started voicing their opinions.
It's not that there has never been a keen following for women's cricket in India.
It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
If I feel strongly about something, I don't bother what will people say, especially when it is about the country and the Army. But my cricketer friends are all politically correct when they tweet.
When I played in the Australia team the captains were all nerds. Allan Border was a nerd, Mark Taylor was a nerd, Steve Waugh was definitely a nerd and Ricky Ponting too.
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
There has always been sledging in cricket.
Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.
Nobody wants to really play bad cricket.
Difference is respected and the environment Eoin Morgan has created is such that we are encouraged to transfer our personalities into our cricket.
I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.
The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.
I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.
