“I played with Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart; if anything off the field affected Graham his cricket life was not important and you had to give him a break. But if Alec had issues at home you would never know about it; he would turn up and think: 'This is my job, I can do it.'”

English cricket commentator and former player

Nasser Hussain is an English cricket commentator and former player, active from 1990 to 2004. Born in 1968, he captained the England cricket team from 1999 to 2003. A right-handed batsman known for his combative style, he made more than 30,000 runs in over 650 first-class and List-A matches, with 62 centuries. In Tests he scored 5,764 runs in 96 matches, and took 67 catches, often fielding at second slip and gully. His highest Test score was 207, made in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, and Wisden described it as touched by genius.