This is not a nine-to-five, it's runs and wickets, that's what we live by and you have to perform for that. These pitches are not good for Test cricket, the game has moved on, things are instant now. People want results, times have changed.He has a good chance, but you can't tell if he might get a serious injury. Then there's the pressure of captaincy, and like Andrew Strauss he might find it quite wearing. The fact is it is very wearing going round the world playing cricket, staying in hotels and everything that goes with it. It will have an effect. It did on Peter May, who ran out of steam - and he was the best young player of his era. The pitches are too good and the over rate is awful. If you got them up to 17 overs an hour, you could play four-day Test matches and move things in the bowlers favour. The pitch here should have been ready two days ago, then it would definitely turn on the third day. My 98th hundred, my comeback Test against Australia at Nottingham in 1977, having not played for three years. I was getting on - I was nearly 37. I was starting again; I was being pilloried for not playing so I was under intense pressure. The Aussies gave me a working over. I got a hundred after running Derek Randall out - that was extra pressure. We won that match - that's important. It was a test of my ability at that age, and a test of character.
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