Andrew Strauss
Andrew Strauss
Andrew John Strauss, OBEis a retired English international cricketer who played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club who was formerly captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favoured scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. Strauss was also known for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers. He became the Director of Cricket for England cricket team in 2015, soon before the sacking of Peter Moores...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth2 March 1977
CityJohannesburg, South Africa
We haven't performed as consistently in one-day cricket, especially away from home, so the great challenge for us here is to build on the momentum we gained in that Test series. We need to use the youthful input we have got from some new players and go on and perform well.
Situations like this bring people together and we are 100% per cent behind Freddie, who is a great character and a fantastic cricketer.
It's a great day for me and a great day for the England team. I felt in pretty good form all the way through.
The credit's got to go to our seam bowlers, who did a great job on a flat pitch to set up the game for us.
The way the series has gone it's a great possibility it might be a very close game,
The one-day series is a big challenge for us. India is a great one-day side but we are looking forward to carry forward the momentum of the Test series.
I want to thank everyone, including the Australians. On a personal level, I am very happy, but it takes 24 players to make a great series.
I have worked hard trying to counter-act his plans. I am better for the experience, which is the great thing about playing the best side in the world.
It was a fantastic effort from three pretty young, inexperienced bowlers. To get India five down early was the key to winning the game and they deserve great credit.
The key was to get a good start, keep wickets in hand and we were able to do that. A lot of credit should go to the seam bowlers. They set the game up for us. It was a very flat wicket and they did a great job first up.
The wicket looked flat but it didn't transpire that way. We've got to be ready for any type of wicket... we've got to be able to react quickly to how the wickets start off that's what we haven't done quite well enough so far on this tour.
We could see people were getting a bit frustrated with the lack of play, and you could understand that when they have paid to get in. But we never felt that safety and security would be a problem.
Merlyn has played a pretty big part this summer.
We've got to play to our potential, play at 100%, get all our players fit and ready to go and not put ourselves under too much pressure.