MY FAVOURITE SERIES

The momentum that I gathered against David Warner in the Ashes last year was special. I did so much research into that prior to it, going fuller to him, making sure I brought his stumps into play, to have that kind of consistent success over five Tests against one of the players of our era was bloody fun.

MY TOUGHEST OPPONENT

In white ball cricket, Yuvraj Singh, but let’s move swiftly on from that. In red ball cricket, Ricky Ponting was awesome to play against. Matt Prior hit one into the ground against him when he was fielding at silly point and the ball hit him in the face and he spat blood out. Matt said: ‘Are you OK, mate?’ He just swore right back at him. To stay as steely as that when he has spat a tooth out, I thought I’d like to have a bit of that aura.

MY FAVOURITE WICKET

One of my favourites was Rassie van der Dussen in the Second Test against South Africa last January in the last session when the win seemed to be slipping away from us. We put Jimmy at leg slip for the last ball of the over. I was exhausted and it was almost like a last gasp to get Jim to go to leg slip. I bowled a leg cutter. Van der Dussen hadn’t put one through leg slip all day and had been at the crease for more than three hours. He played a forward defensive, it went straight to leg slip and everyone on the field went mad.

MY FAVOURITE VICTIM

I saw a list of who I have got out the most in Test cricket. That is what pleases me. I think Warner was No1. There was AB De Villiers of South Africa and New Zealand’s Ross Taylor, arguably some of the strongest players in their teams at the time.