First four years, art of bowling? We were amateurs. In the early days, I worked five days a week and you practiced two nights a week with your local club side where practice conditions and facilities were pretty average to poor. And then you play a club game on Saturday, you play something on a Sunday and then you go back to work for five days. And then all of a sudden, we are talking about the 1970s here, out of club cricket you get picked to represent your province or zone or state, and we played five three-day games. That was our first-class season — five three-day games. Now you have a rained-out game or you have an injury or you have a bad performance, virtually half your season’s gone. You don’t really know how to train or prepare because you are doing it yourself basically. You are making mistakes and you’ve got no one to help you. And then all of a sudden you get picked to play Test cricket, which happened quite quickly for me. And I have always said the first four years of my Test career, I didn’t really know what I was doing.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:04:48 +0000
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