He is just so passionate and loves playing for Lancashire. He enjoys the dressing room banter - he can carry on like a pork chop and everyone laughs at him! And that enjoyment shows up in his cricket.
He gets fired up. If something annoys him on the cricket field it is great, because you then see him put in that extra 10 per cent.
He bowled 20-odd overs against Surrey in several short spells, although we didn't wrap him up in cotton wool.
And I don't see me giving him longer spells against Somerset this week, because of the quality of bowlers we have in the side, especially with Jimmy Anderson available.
We still have to remember that Freddie is coming back from a career-threatening injury and I don't want to be the one who messes that up.
Our lack of match preparation stuck out a bit against Surrey. We weren't as fine-tuned as we would have liked to have been.
Our batsmen have to realise that 50s aren't good enough, and even 100s. 150-plus is what we need to be aiming at. When we look like we have an attack by the scruff of the neck we can't let it go, we have to grab it and squeeze every ounce of fortune out of it we can.
Graham Gooch used to say to me at Essex whatever I scored that it wasn't enough.
When you have got a bowling attack by the throat, you have to get as many as you can as next week you might get nothing.
We have to start thinking along those lines and imposing ourselves on the opposition, not just turning up thinking we are going to blast every attack out of the water.
Somerset are a good batting side and they have some canny, wily fast bowlers as well.
But I don't think there are many weak teams in the division now. I don't see any game being easy this season, it is getting tougher and tougher and that is what English cricket wants to see.
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