Q: What is your first cricketing memory?

A: That's a hard one - we used to play at home with my brothers, and of course, we played at school. It was an everlasting disappointment that I was never much good.

Q: Which player was your boyhood hero?

A: Fred Trueman - my family all came from Yorkshire and it was before his "in my day we had to make our own bats out of old jockstraps" career as a commentator.

Q: Did you play for a school or a club team?

A: No. I've told you, I was useless.

Q: Which current player do you most admire?

A: I know it sounds predictable, but I do think Shane Warne is an astonishing bowler.

Q: Which is your favourite cricket venue?

A: Turville Park cricket club (his local ground in the Chilterns). It's situated on top of a beautiful hill, and is now equipped with splendid new loos.

Q: Should technology be used to help umpires with lbw decisions?

A: Yes. The alternative is to have it undermine umpires.

Q: Why are England so much better at Test cricket than one-day internationals?

A: I think it's to do with national temperament - like putting up with the weather.

Q: Is the County Championship living on borrowed time?

A: I think so, sadly. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether the spectators are alive or dead. We need to find a way of reinventing the championship.