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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery.

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

But eventually it is a game of cricket.