Rahul Dravid Wickets Quotations

We had great cricket in two last two series because of the quality of pitches. Unfortunately, the wickets in the first two Tests here have not lived up to the expectations of an India-Pakistan contest.

We are planning to developing a strategy which will give us 20 wickets in a match as in the last four encounters we were unable to do so for a victory.

Both times we lost tosses and we had to respond to big totals, and that's not easy no matter how flat the wickets were.

We fell short by 30 runs and lost wickets in the beginning and that was the reason for the loss.

We do realize we've got to take 20 wickets to win a test. That's the key, but we've played the last few tests on flat pitches of low bounce.

Our aim is to try and win test matches, irrespective of the conditions, and we need to look at the best combination to win. We thought we needed five bowlers to get us 20 wickets and to have a serious chance to win this test.

They have shown so far they are a very competitive team. It wasn't an easy game by any stretch of the imagination and nine wickets does not reflect the contest between the two sides.

His bowling today was fantastic. His three wickets in the morning set the game up for us.

The idea is to get a combination that can take 20 wickets in the match.