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I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.
The less you worry about things the more you just do it naturally.
Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.
I do enjoy fielding in the deep and I enjoy engaging with the crowd.
It's important to have a smile with spectators but it's not always possible.
When I came into the Yorkshire academy I was christened Bluey almost immediately.
You're able to learn different things from different coaches and different players.
As a youngster, you take a lot of things to heart, so you have to learn to trust yourself.
Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.
My mum thinks I get my determination and resilience from my dad. I think it comes mostly from her.
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier.
Every young cricketer from our county dreams of playing for Yorkshire and going on to represent England.
Anyone who has been born in Yorkshire is very proud of it. It's something that's embedded in your character.
In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don't, you get found out.
If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.
When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.
I've always said I don't mind where I bat and I have exactly the same mindset when I'm batting seven as I would at five.
The great risk of being alive is always that something can happen to you - or to someone you dearly love - at any moment.
When Dad passed away, grandpa took on that mantle of teaching me how to tackle at football or taking me and mum to cricket.
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.
Look how successful Eddie Jones was, then all of a sudden a training camp is wrong and it's his fault. The same with Stuart Lancaster.
With my dad gone, I made a resolution to myself. I would become the man of the house. Adulthood was still more than a decade away for me.
As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making a hundred against Australia.
Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.
It's all well and good when it's going good and people have an opinion on how well you're playing, but it's the hidden things they don't see.
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 you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.
Mum never made an excuse, even when she had cancer and had a lot on her plate. You have to have huge admiration for the way she brought us up.
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.
I'm a bit taller too because I've got Mum's legs and Dad was a bit more squat and well-built than me. My brother Andrew is a bit more like Dad.
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.
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.
The place closest to my dad's heart, unequivocally his favourite, was Scarborough. To him it was the epitome of the English coast, postcard perfect.
I think 'chuffed to bits' is a very Yorkshire way of describing my feelings for my friend and county team-mate Joe Root on his promotion to England captain.
I look so much like my dad - same chin, same cheekbones, same forehead - and I play a little like him too. But I am my mother's son. I am who I am because of her.
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.
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.
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.
I don't think there have been many dull celebrations after any of my hundreds for England. It's been an emotional time for me over the last few weeks. Interpret them as you wish.
When you're going through difficult times, like I was after the 2013-14 Ashes, you start thinking about different bits. Rugby is a huge passion of mine, a lot of my friends play.
People don't actually see what's gone on behind the scenes - the hard work, when you're doing your rehab, when you're sleeping on an ice machine - and yet they have an opinion on it.
All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.
You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.
If you suddenly go striving for different things from what have stood you in good stead over a period of time then you're searching for something that you are probably not going to find.
When I came into the England team I was always being asked whether I 'really' wanted to be a wicketkeeper. It was as though no one had noticed the work I'd already put in to make myself one.
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.
I don't like intensely complicated coaching. I prefer to work things out by myself. A gentle hint is all I need, otherwise it's like finishing a crossword after someone has given me the answers.
A hundred for England is special and there's a lot of emotion and a lot of hard work involved in getting back on the field. No one sees the hard work and all the time with the ice machines in rehab.
Who says we can't win the World Cup and the Ashes in the same year? Oh yes we can. It all goes back to my motto in life: Be proud of how far you've come - and have faith in how far you can still go.
I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him.