Stuart Broad: “If he bowls the right length out here, he’ll be the biggest danger man.” Stuart Broad: “If he bowls the right length out here, he’ll be the biggest danger man.” Images: Getty Images

When we’re complete, this academy’s going to be used for all sorts of things. We want to use it for education, and we’re not just talking coach education, we’re also talking administrator education, curator education. We want to be able to hold all sorts of conferences here – anything pertaining to the game of cricket.

It sounds like an epic undertaking?

It’ll definitely be my last job, I’d think...

And I hear your family history has recently gone under the microscope in SBS’ Who Do You Think You Are? (The episode will air on Dec 5 on SBS One). An emotional experience?

I’m not sure that it was emotional, but I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I had no idea where they were taking me or what I was doing, so there was a touch of the unknown about it all, but the way everything evolved . . . I was totally surprised at the end result. It’s something that, throughout my life, I’d never really thought much of. It’s only when you start to get a bit older you think, “God, yeah, what’s going on here?”

And the other thing I’ll be eternally grateful to them for is that now I don’t have to do the research myself! And my kids, my three boys, think exactly the same way. I guess their kids will be thinking the same thing, too. The work’s been done. But it’s a hell of a yarn, I tell you. There were a lot of surprises there for me and a few skeletons in the closet

as well …

– Aaron Scott