Quotes About Test match

I'd grown up knowing all about Don Bradman and visited his museum in Bowral quite a few times and absolutely loved the place and then to go back there and receive my baggy green and play my first Test match there at the oval, and obviously my parents were there and a lot of family and friends, it was really cool.

But yes, I'm going to miss being a part of the team, sharing a dressing room, playing a test match, all those kinds of things.

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

As a bowler you are not a hero, you are always backing a hero but you need 20 wickets to win a Test match.

At the end of the day, the bowlers have to get 20 wickets to win a Test match. I'm sure they do have a little bit of brains to get those wickets.

After a test match it's very easy to make selections, once you've seen exactly how the surface is going to play.

I have never played a Test match at the Eden... It's such a big shame and disappointment.

I wasn't sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

During a Test match I am not a very good sleeper, mainly because I am visualising. Everything is positive. Nothing negative.

Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.

We had thousands of people outside Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at six o'clock in the morning.

Trent Bridge, 2013, is my favourite Test. An Ashes opener and England won a thriller by 14 runs. I managed to take ten wickets, which helps.

I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

Our training schedule can change quite a bit throughout the year - if you're going into quite a heavy Test match workload a lot of it's based on recovery and a lot of aerobic work is done in that period.

You have to have a laugh and a joke. If you spend five days playing a Test match and so much time together off the field, it's important to keep morale high.

I hope that there can be a solution where T20 is still a huge part of the game, especially if young guys today understand what a Test match is all about. To me, you have to learn the game from the grass-roots and then reach the next stage where you can be explosive.

The classical art of spin bowling, how you should bowl in Test match cricket, is disappearing.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

When you are playing a Test match, you would like to be playing with your strongest side.