Is posting huge totals the gameplan for this team to win Tests?
It is a way we have been trying to go, but it’s not all. Posting huge totals hasn’t always won teams Tests. You can bat as well as you want but if you can’t back it up with good bowling then it doesn’t work. We scored 700 runs in Sydney but could not take 20 wickets. If you look at great West Indian and Australian sides you will see that they had bowlers who picked 20 wickets. Even South Africa, when they were doing well, had good quality attacks. There is no doubt that you need bowlers to win you Tests. We are probably trying to do things a bit differently. As captain, you have experienced it all in three Tests: a draw, victory and defeat. How enriching has the experience been? It’s too early to pass comments on captaincy. I enjoyed it and the Multan Test will be the most important Test of my life. I have been captain for a one-off Test and therefore have not really felt like a skipper. My job has essentially been about what I do on the field. I have to get behind the bowlers when the
