It is disappointing, I missed the century. I wanted a century and also to stay on the crease for the whole day, |
It is fine that finally one of our players got the hundred but honestly speaking I was expecting much more from my top order. Before the series I told my boys that this was a chance for them to make it but it did not happen sadly. |
It is not impossible because we have beaten several strong teams in the past, and now we can wish for a win against Sri Lanka too. |
It is the brightest day that has ever come in my life, ... I'll cherish this day as long as I live and play. |
It was a definite boost for our confidence and self belief. |
It was a great Test match for us -- we had our chances. Pushing Australia to five days is a great thing to achieve and everyone is doing their job. Ricky was unstoppable today. |
It would be really great if we can carry the tempo into our next home assignment against Australia next month. We know how tough it would be against the World champions but if we can carry the good work to the next series, I think it will be a real success for us. |
It's a batting wicket, we can expect lots of runs. |
It's important that we carry on the improvement we showed in the one-day game to the tests. |
No doubt, our first target would be to pick up the remaining wickets quickly but we are already thinking about the second innings. I think the second day was not too bad for us if you consider our first innings total. But all know that we have a very poor record in second innings. |
No team could be compared with them but we are counting on the good cricket we've played recently. I have little doubt about the ability of my players and I want stubborn efforts from them. |
Nothing has gone right for us so far on the tour, |
Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches. |
Our bad second innings cost us the match. We have to learn to do better consistently in order to win test matches. |
Our last test performance was not too bad. We made some mistakes in the second innings. If we can overcome them, we can expect a better performance here. |