I was a professional cricketer from 16.

It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.

Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

The IOC have decided Russia will pay them £50 million, and that is their punishment for 40 years of duping the world and going against every single clean athlete on earth. The IOC has fought a spectacular fraud with more fraud."

Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.