We are going in with five bowlers rather than our usual four, having taken into account the workload in South Africa. |
We are going with the same team. |
We are here to play our best test cricket. Things have been going according to plan for us in the past few weeks and we will try to freshen up and get our focus back. |
We are looking a lot more confident than we were a couple of days ago, |
We are looking at those areas, as we always do, to look for little ways that we can improve ourselves. That will be one area from the last Test. |
We are looking forward to the second test. |
We are yet to talk about selection but I would be very surprised if we made a change. |
We batted steadily enough to post a good total, and then Brett and the rest of the bowlers did a good job for us. |
We bit the bullet early on day one and decided to bat on that wicket, knowing it will get a bit lower and spin as the game went along. |
We came up a little bit short with our batting but our new ball bowling was outstanding, |
We can go out and play instinctive cricket with the pressure off. |
We couldn't risk or afford to have him actually have to face any deliveries in the game. If we needed two to win and he had to go on strike, I would probably have had to declare or do something like that, which would have been pretty hard. As he just said to me then, he wouldn't have spoken to me ever again as long as he was alive. [But] the risk factor there was extremely high. |
We did everything in our power to play the game in the right spirit. I don't know if he's trying to cover his own backside … with a lot of these allegations directed at us now. It's all coming after some allegations were made against him about the way England conducted themselves. To be honest, I don't really care. |
We did everything in our power to play the game in the right spirit. I think that was pretty evident right through the whole series and we've been applauded for the way we played through the series. I don't know where Duncan's coming up with a lot of this stuff. |
We expected to cop a bit of abuse but this was pushing the limits. |