Glenn McGrath
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Yeah, listening to Ben Stokes there, he said a lot of things.
I guess he was pretty honest.
The thing I liked the most was he said it's time for the players to take more pressure, to absorb more pressure.
And all I'd heard from when Brendan McCullen first came in was about releasing the pressure.
There's no pressure.
We want our players to play without pressure.
which, you know, your good players go out there and play, your great players absorb the pressure and they enjoy the pressure and that's when they lift.
So, yeah, you know, I think it's not about getting rid of pressure, it's about enjoying pressure, handling it and, you know, having the belief that you're good enough to play in these situations and you can compete at this time.
And, oh, I say accountability.
You know, you've got to be accountable to yourself, to your teammates, to your country, you know,
You come off and you analyse your own performance and you think, OK, what could I have done better today to have helped my team?
What did I learn from today?
If they're asking those questions of each other and as a team every day, they can't help but get better.
If you come in the room and go, oh, bad luck today, you know, you got caught on the fence slogging again, oh, tomorrow you might hit that one a bit better.
That's not learning.
So those things and hearing it's time for the players to take more pressure, I don't mind that.
Yeah, no, it's funny listening to Usman there saying how he was nervous, he was realising and this is my last test and thinking about it.
I think back 19 years ago when I hung the boots up here alongside Shane Warne and Justin Langer, I said I'd retire at the end of the World Cup, which was still a few months away, but final test match here, I don't know, it didn't hit me.
I didn't even consider, oh, this is my last test here.
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