Joe Root

I love playing five days of cricket; personally, I think it’s the best format.

From a young age I’ve always known my game pretty well and coming from a club like Yorkshire you are generally taught to say what you think. If you don’t say what you think then someone else does.

I’m not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a book once. It was ‘The Client’ by John Grisham, which was quite interesting.

It’s not about how many games we win with me as captain, it’s about us being consistently getting better over a long period of time and looking to be that number one side in the world.

Make sure you look after people around you and it holds you in good stead going forward in terms of leadership. Look at all the best leaders and they have those qualities.