It is asking a lot to send them in against India and players who play spin-bowling very well.
If you take a risky single and get run out, you would be frustrated.
We had to treat him with kid gloves, just say half-pace, and today he looked pretty effective out there.
Many people thought we hadn`t played against strong opposition, but we came out and proved it.
It`s good news. I got it through on the phone this morning by text.
We needed Simon Jones`s type of bowling which balances our bowling attack.
It would be nice to go through the series with the same 11 players. I`ll be discussing the matter with the other selectors, but I`m not going to say what we`ll do.
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.
The one area we`ve got to work on is the batters. They`ve got to show a little more patience (than in Pakistan).
We got into their faces, got into their space and it was so well done ? it was `we can win this`.