Nasser Hussain

I have applied to go to either Durham or Loughborough University to study Applied Physics and would like to get some qualification behind me. But when I do think about becoming professional Essex would be my first choice as I have been very happy playing and practising with them.

My philosophy is to respect the opposition off the field and play it as tough as possible on it.

One-day cricket is about continuity, team ethic, understanding each other's role, where everybody fields and bats, when and at which end they want to bowl.

Learning how to win comes with switching the onus of pressure away from yourselves and then seizing your moment.

Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

At the end of my career I always wanted to look back and know that I had given it my absolute best.

There have been a few times in my career when I have been close to tears after completing an innings, but rarely when I am waiting to bat.

Captaining England is the best job I've ever had and the last thing I would want to do after more than four years is hand the Test job over to someone who wasn't up to it.

When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

Well, I've always prefered playing spin off the back foot because, to my mind, it takes short leg and silly point out of the equation.

I like back-to-back Tests at the end of a series, without any county game in between. We know county cricket has no bearing on Test cricket.