Learning on the job as England captain is hard.

The biggest thing was probably a better understanding of the mental side of cricket and also the technical challenges I have in my game. Those two things happened in a very short space of time which changed me as a player.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

It is frustrating when you go all that way, you train, and you just don't turn up. It does happen. If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score the runs.

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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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