He started to feel like an outsider, he says, “when they got rid of me as captain [in 2009]. That’s when I started to feel it. And when the IPL came round and I spoke so positively about the IPL. And I constantly said all the players should be playing in the IPL. If we want to get better we should be playing in the IPL. I’ve been saying it for six years. I was sitting in my house the other day watching the one-day series against India, when they were hammering England, and Nick Knight and the commentators were saying, 'I just wish the England players were playing more IPL, this would be so much more of a contest’, and I just started laughing. I said to Jess [his wife], 'What have I been saying for seven years? What have I been saying for seven years?’ ”