People say to stay in the same seat but we were losing that many wickets there was not a right seat to be in, |
She just said she'd been watching the Ashes and she couldn't watch it all because it got too nerve-wracking, and I said so it was for us as well. |
Simon Jones bowled exceptionally well in the first innings, so after losing him, the bowlers in the second innings deserve a lot of credit, ... They kept running in on a placid wicket that was really very slow. We had to use all our resources to whittle out those ten wickets and restrict them to a total where we only had to chase 130. |
South Africa played the better cricket over the five day and put us under a lot of pressure, |
Spin hasn't bowled many teams out here. We'll make a decision pretty late. |
Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets. |
Steve produced one of the greatest spells of bowling by an England player, |
That is what it is going to take to stay in the team. |
That kind of score is difficult to chase, if you are set 220 it is different - you just bat time, |
That's a big loss, he's bowled extremely well. It's very hard to find a like-for-like replacement for Simon because of the way he's bowled. He's probably up there with the best in the world at this minute, |
That's just Nasser for you. He fights really hard when people have a dig at him. He's had great input into the team and it was a really important innings for us. |
That's the order you are going to see for the next few matches. |
The knee is all right. It's been four weeks since the operation. I've done rehab and I've just started running indoors on soft surfaces in the last few days. You need a little bit of luck but if that stays with me I'm sure I will be fine for the tour. |
The momentum is with us because we've just won, |
The one-day team is a little bit below the Test team at the minute, but we are building for 2007 and the World Cup. As a team and players, we had a lot of self-belief that we could turn things around (after first Test defeat at Lord's), and we also have a lot of self-belief we can do very well in the World Cup come 2007. |