'Ajmal calls me the running offspinner'
Scott Styris on being a globetrotting cricketer, the ugliest cricket kit, and his slow one-day hundred

Styris calls his New Zealand career "steady" • Getty Images
It went well, didn't it? I scored a century in my first Test innings too. Maybe I should have retired after that!
Steady, nothing more than that. I felt I should have scored more hundreds, but you can only do your best at the time and whatever happens happens.
No, not necessarily. I lament the fact that I started my first-class career as a bowler who bats a little bit. Through age-group cricket, I was a batsman that bowls. I probably lost four years of development on my batting. That put me back a bit.
The 170 against South Africa in 2004, solely because it helped - along with Chris Martin's 11 wickets - get us a Test win against a major cricketing nation. To do that is always special.
No I haven't! I prefer to look at it the other way and see it as a chance to play with and against a lot of guys that I didn't think I'd get the chance to. You find out how other guys prepare and work.
When I retired from international cricket I thought the travelling around would be reduced. Then when the T20 leagues came in, I ended up away more than the international players were.
Chris Nash at Sussex. It hurts me to say it but he's quite clever with his jibes. Can I throw in a worst?
Tim Southee. He's just relentless.
Martin Guptill.
Tim Southee is the best fun. I think there's an element of jealousy from his team-mates with that one.
Leicestershire - right now!
Well, Saeed Ajmal calls me the running offspinner, so I'm not sure it's ever gone away! I think the run-up is just longer than most others.
I have done it twice. But I've played him a few times and he's had my number since.
Wasn't that a World Cup year? (Pauses) I can't think. Who was it against?
152 balls? Really? Embarrassing, that's embarrassing! Too slow.
I haven't thought about that. I enjoy the playing side of the game. It's the warm-ups, the travel and the being away that's hardest.
One.
The slog. Come on, it's what they say all T20 players do, don't they?
I have no fears.
I'd nag and nag and nag and see how they liked it.