On commentary
"My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up."
"The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see."
On captaincy
"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent."
On mimics
"The only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it."
Humour
"And Glenn McGrath dismissed for two, just 98 runs short of his century."
"There was a slight interruption there for athletics." Referring to a streaker at Lord's.
"The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling."
"In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over."
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