Key has had a shoulder operation and Shah has a knee injury which didn't look too serious at first but a closer look has shown it is a far more serious. |
Many people thought we hadn't played against strong opposition, but we came out and proved it. |
Marcus has to go back for personal reasons. I think we have to respect the privacy of the matter. |
On these slow wickets your technique has got to come to bear. The Indians use a lot of wrist in their technique. If you don't use your wrists you are going to struggle because of the adjustment in time of the ball reaching you - they use their wrists to create that power to beat the field. |
Sometimes these things happen. From our point of view these are huge losses as we have lost experienced players, but we just have to get on with it. |
Sometimes these things happen. We have lost experienced players before and we just have to live with it. |
Strauss is fit to play but we will not take a decision on the team till Saturday morning. |
That is the key area we have to look at. |
The one area we've got to work on is the batters. They've got to show a little more patience [than in Pakistan]. |
They've got to be just more selective sweeping. |
We always knew this winter would be difficult. India would have been tough with a full side but with four major players out, while they are at full strength - well it's a huge ask for a young side. Yet, we've just got to make sure we keep battling on. |
We can't make a decision over replacements just yet, we have to give it a couple of days. Simon Jones could wake up and be fine in two days, while if the injection works Vaughan could be alright by next week. We'll just have to fiddle things about for the moment. |
We got into their faces, got into their space and it was so well done ? it was 'we can win this'. |
We had to really work hard at it because it was difficult to get runs. We would have liked to have scored a few more runs a bit quicker but we're pretty happy with what happened. |
We had to treat him with kid gloves, just say half-pace, and today he looked pretty effective out there. |