Nasser Hussain

You know, I spoke to him.

He said, you know, in that series in 2010, we're still bowling with reasonable heat.

We're probably around about the 84, 85 miles an hour.

So they're not...

like dobbers you know what i mean i think i think you need the combination of accuracy skill but you need to bowl with a bit of heat i don't think you can be a kind of kiss the surface english style seamer and expect to do well here so it's that combination but england haven't been accurate enough or disciplined enough for long enough and that's been costly for them

Well, he did.

He said, you know, keep looking your opponents in the eye.

There was a very obvious example of that early on when he got a very nasty blow to the back of the head, actually, from Mitchell Stark.

But he just stood there looking at him when Mitchell Stark was saying, are you all right?

Are you all right?

He didn't take his helmet off until he'd stared the bowler out.

So...

Yeah, it was a very defiant innings.

I think you're right.

Even if he'd have wanted to go change gears at the end of the day, he'd just looked cooked in 40 degree heat.

So he was determined to be defiant and be there at the end, which he is.

And Geoffrey Archer gave him good support for that final hour or so.

So I was just coming down the escalators with a bunch of Aussies, which is not the great thing to do on a day like that.

the daylight today but the guy said the pulse is still beating and you kind of feel it's beating but pretty weakly but it's good that he's there and he showed great defiance I mean there were some controversies today though again weren't there Joe Root

There was that and the Jamie Smith going back to DRS again, which seems to be creating a lot of kind of heat and debate in this game, almost as if there's been a little bit of confidence lost in the system.