Bresnan - seams to be working
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Bresnan - seams to be working
by net.com Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:07 am
Tim Bresnan hailed "a very good day" after he took four wickets to help England make a strong start to the third Test against India at Edgbaston.
The tourists were dismissed for 224 on a green-tinged pitch before England, who already hold a 2-0 lead in the four-match series, reached 84-0 in reply by stumps.
Bresnan and Stuart Broad, both in great form following the second Test at Trent Bridge, shared eight wickets with James Anderson taking the other two.
He said: "It was a very good day for us, we would have taken that bowling in these sort of conditions and being none down as well is fantastic.
"It is a collective effort really, it doesn't really matter who gets the wickets as long as we take the wickets and we did that today.
"We gave away some boundaries early on but we got back into our bubble and did the right things. We got the three wickets (before lunch) which is always nice if you can get a four-wicket session.
"It (the pitch) really didn't do too much. The pitch is playing alright so hopefully we can get stuck in and get a lead."
Bresnan also dismissed the suggestion that the England bowling attack had struggled in the evening session as MS Dhoni, who made 77, started scoring regular boundaries.
"I don't think we lost the plot, it is a patience game and there is always going to be a partnership down the bottom - but I think 224 on this pitch is great for us," he added.
"You are under pressure to take wickets but that is not the way we go about things, we just do what we can do and hopefully stick the balls in the right are as often enough and that is how we build the pressure up."
Bresnan saw things differently to India coach Duncan Fletcher, who portrayed devilishly difficult batting conditions which had made India's task fraught.
"It was pretty tough," said the former Ashes-winning England coach.
"Unfortunately that toss was pretty important. Those two wickets that England got just before lunch really put us on the back foot.
"It's been pretty difficult for the batsmen to adapt.
"I have not seen three pitches, even when I was with England, that have swung and seamed around as much as these have (in three Tests at Lord's, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston).
"Our guys are finding it difficult at the moment to handle the swing and seam.
"They have practised, and there's not much more they can do."
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The tourists were dismissed for 224 on a green-tinged pitch before England, who already hold a 2-0 lead in the four-match series, reached 84-0 in reply by stumps.
Bresnan and Stuart Broad, both in great form following the second Test at Trent Bridge, shared eight wickets with James Anderson taking the other two.
He said: "It was a very good day for us, we would have taken that bowling in these sort of conditions and being none down as well is fantastic.
"It is a collective effort really, it doesn't really matter who gets the wickets as long as we take the wickets and we did that today.
"We gave away some boundaries early on but we got back into our bubble and did the right things. We got the three wickets (before lunch) which is always nice if you can get a four-wicket session.
"It (the pitch) really didn't do too much. The pitch is playing alright so hopefully we can get stuck in and get a lead."
Bresnan also dismissed the suggestion that the England bowling attack had struggled in the evening session as MS Dhoni, who made 77, started scoring regular boundaries.
"I don't think we lost the plot, it is a patience game and there is always going to be a partnership down the bottom - but I think 224 on this pitch is great for us," he added.
"You are under pressure to take wickets but that is not the way we go about things, we just do what we can do and hopefully stick the balls in the right are as often enough and that is how we build the pressure up."
Bresnan saw things differently to India coach Duncan Fletcher, who portrayed devilishly difficult batting conditions which had made India's task fraught.
"It was pretty tough," said the former Ashes-winning England coach.
"Unfortunately that toss was pretty important. Those two wickets that England got just before lunch really put us on the back foot.
"It's been pretty difficult for the batsmen to adapt.
"I have not seen three pitches, even when I was with England, that have swung and seamed around as much as these have (in three Tests at Lord's, Trent Bridge and Edgbaston).
"Our guys are finding it difficult at the moment to handle the swing and seam.
"They have practised, and there's not much more they can do."
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