In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.
After I failed in my first two games, I did not expect to be picked. But on the eve of our match against Uttar Pradesh in Kanpur, Pravin Amre sir came to my room and gave me the confidence that I was playing.
I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
When I came back into the side in 2009 I had to play more aggressively, and did. But I should never have played 127 times for England in one day cricket.
I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.
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.
In 2014, my first year as an England player, I got booed by some India fans at Edgbaston every time the ball went near me.
I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave.
I played my first World Cup game against South Africa where I scored 97 runs before being run-out by Jonty Rhodes.
I remember the reason why did I start my golf. We had a four day game I was playing for Trinidad against the Leeward Islands. They had in their ranks Winston Benjamin, Curtly Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin. To add to it, the track was a green top. The four day game lasted two days, so I had two days to play golf.
I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.
I love to play Test cricket; it's the main cricket.
Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord's and you know you're going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade.
It's every cricketer's dream to play in the World Cup.
When my ban was relaxed I began playing club cricket. Imagine, for a person who had played at Lord's, to play with a club team who didn't have proper kit against another club team in Lahore.
And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.
I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.
Playing Australia, of course, is always challenging.
Time has never really been an issue in Test cricket, especially in the modern game where things naturally move quicker than they have in the past.
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Part of the reason I fell in love with cricket was watching fast bowlers. They provide a sense of theatre with dramatic, ferocious spells and that applies as much in one-day cricket as in Tests.
