He was a sort of compact player,
so very quick on his feet,
very quick with his hands.
As I say, brave against the pace and nimble on
his feet against the spin.
You've got to be 100%
right in in both your playing side and your mental
side.
Well, it was obviously all to see that the playing
side was fine.
But you know, Graham has decided that he isn't right
just yet to go on a on a tour like
that.
He's got two small children he wants to see more
of and he's made that decision.
I think we should respect that.
Some will say he should never play cricket for England
again,
Others point to a player who averages over 45 against
Australia.
Obviously this is a pause in his international career.
But he is too good a player that if he
decides that he does come back and he's scoring runs
then he's gonna be hard to ignore.
I watched the thing on ITN last night and I
saw,
you know, you know, you've got oppression in Zimbabwe and
you just think like,
you know, crickets kind of irrelevant when this is going
on.
And I just think we missed a trick a little
bit last night.
I mean, is it really a regime which you can
trust?
And if they, you know,
they haven't let 8 journalists in and,
and all of a sudden at the last minute they
have you know,
what's going to happen during the next couple of weeks
out there.
It's always great to go to places and try to
create history and I think both sides are very evenly
matched going out there and if we can overcome,
you know, some of the the,
the quality batting they've got as well and also get
on top of of their bowling,
then then we've got a really good chance out there
this time.