A great relief. I have been waiting for that for a long time. |
As long as I keep batting like that hopefully I can change people's minds. |
Humidity, rather than the sun, will be the key issue here. But we're professional players who have played around the world in different conditions. |
I have been in that position before. |
I like the pitches out here. You have to get yourself in and you have to scrap all the time for your runs, which I enjoy. |
If we can get a couple early on Friday and put them under pressure we're in with a good shout. |
It was a great relief for me as well as everyone else in the dressing room when I got there. I've been waiting for that a long time. I got over a little hurdle when I made that first big score in Pakistan. That gave me the belief to kick on and I knew that my first hundred wouldn't be far away, as long as I applied myself as I did there. |
It was a pretty good ball, I should've got further up. |
It was easy to work out what went wrong in the second Test - we failed to score a big enough first innings total - and Anil Kumble had a big part to play in that. |
It would be easy to get caught up with the defeats to India in the one-day series, but when you look back on the tour as a whole it is far from being all doom and gloom. |
It's a big relief to get a hundred. |
It's a major challenge but everybody is looking forward to it. |
Kumble is a great bowler having taken close to 500 wickets. He is a difficult bowler to face on any wicket. |
Kumble is a world-class bowler. He is tough to play on any wicket. |
The crucial thing with Kumble, even on wickets that don?t turn, is his variation in pace, which is very hard to read. |