Jonny Bairstow

“My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.”

“If someone who doesn't know anything about wicketkeeping finds a reason to criticise, you have to sift it out. It's about working out how to deal with the criticism while improving your game.”

“No one saw me cry over my dad's death for almost nine years. I hid what I felt, bottling up my emotions so tightly that almost nothing leaked out.”

“I think it's something you learn over a period of time; you learn to be more comfortable within yourself, appreciative of what you've got and what you haven't, you realise the talents you have and what you can do and you take on the chin the things that you have to. It's part and parcel of growing up.”

“But put it this way: if I have a bad day keeping, I know I can put it right with the bat, and vice versa. When it all comes together, happy days.”

“Life without cricket was initially harder for my dad than playing the game for Yorkshire and England had ever been. He missed it, and also the adrenaline pump of a performance.”

“As a youngster, you take a lot of things to heart, so you have to learn to trust yourself.”

“I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.”

“Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.”

“In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don't, you get found out.”

“You go out onto the playing field every time to win and you will do all you can to do that, but not at all costs and especially not to cheat.”

“If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.”

“My dad is never far from my thoughts. A place, a game, an incident somewhere or an unexpected word from someone can trigger a memory, which then triggers another, and suddenly I'm thinking about him, if only for a minute or two.”

“We're a special family and it's just that Dad's life was taken away from us far too early. Everywhere you go around the world he had an effect on people - in the Caribbean, Australia, South Africa or England. I've never heard a bad word said about him.”

“Everyone who survives cancer knows the victory against it may only be temporary. You know eventually that you might have to fight all over again. Almost 15 years after my mum's first bout of cancer, a second bout occurred. This time she needed an operation.”

“My dad passed on his cricketing talent. My mum has enabled me to use it.”

“You think of what might have been different if dad had been around, or how I might have turned out as a person. You just don't know. I might not even be playing cricket.”

“The less you worry about things the more you just do it naturally.”

“Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord's and you know you're going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade.”

“I've not given up my keeping, I want to make that very, very clear. I'm still working hard on my keeping and it's something I still want to do.”