00:00yeah obviously disappointed um to not be able to finish the series um yeah disappointed how serious
00:08is the injury um yeah i've got a decent tear of one of the muscles that i can't pronounce
00:15because i don't know how to say it um but yeah it was obviously took as long as we could to
00:22make that decision around that um obviously a bit of emotion going into this kind of stuff
00:29when you find out what you've done um i came down here this morning was you know to give myself
00:35every chance i've seen if you know just to play as a batter of bowling was ruled out as soon as we got
00:40the scan results um but yeah i think you need sort of that time chatting with the medical team baz
00:50and then almost just 20 minutes to myself out there in the morning just to
00:53really be clear around the decision that we made and yeah there wasn't any it's one of those where
01:01the um you know weighing up the risk reward and and the risk um was way too high for damaging this
01:10any further than it currently is um didn't want to put myself i wouldn't expect to put anyone else
01:16any other my players at risk with it's an injury like this so um look start rehabbing now and
01:24um obviously focus on what we got coming up in the winter so yeah obviously very disappointed but
01:30almost needed a bit more time than normally would give to these kind of things to make a decision and
01:35um helps that we've got a really good strong squad to be able to select from to to put a team out there
01:39that we think can get us a win this week how long do you think we'll be out um oh once this series
01:44was done i was feet up anyway so um yeah it doesn't doesn't really make too much difference to what
01:51i've got from the end of the series up until the winter anyway and looking at the team without you
01:56in it and that's a difficult position you're here you're a huge loss in terms of the balance of the
02:01attack how do you assess the side you do have now now we've still able to field at 11 um that's gonna
02:09give us a very good chance of you know winning this game and winning the series um you know that's
02:14the benefit of having a very strong squad and um you know some pretty bloody good cricketers to be
02:19able to choose from when we find ourselves in a situation like this um so look let's put all
02:26the concentration on t11 that we've got out there this week um and we're very confident that we've got
02:31the ability to to be able to win this game and hopefully win the series thank you bethel comes in
02:37bats down at six there's been a lot of talk about him a lot of hype about him how do you think you'll
02:42deal with that yeah pretty good i think there was a lot more hype and a lot more um pressure on the
02:48shoulders in new zealand when he got given that chance about a three and he handled that pretty well
02:52um i think being um the type of player that he is where he you know plays all three formats um probably
03:01allows him to be a bit more versatile with where he bats in the order you know he batted at three
03:06in new zealand did very well um and yeah gets a sliding at six and um so look i'm very confident
03:13visibility he's a quality player uh i think we all know that so um yeah look we weren't going to
03:19change change the batting order at all it was just quite an easy slot in for him to come in six
03:25and just looking back to how it finished in old trafford it's been a bit of a needle throughout
03:28the series any regrets when you do it differently looking back uh no regrets but i think it's one of
03:35those where you're when you've not been there in the field for 250 overs um you do have a bit more
03:46of an understanding towards you know both sides um you know two lads janeja and washington played
03:53incredibly well up until that point so you sort of understand as to why um they wanted to stay out
03:58there and get the hundreds um but again like i said at the end of the game fair enough um but i'm not
04:06going to bowl any more bowlers in a situation there where um we can't win the game and expose any of
04:14those guys to injuries so it's just we're over it i think india are over that whole thing just
04:20let's just try our best not to focus too much on a 20-minute period of cricket um yeah when it's
04:28been such a good series so far Friday will be a date for Thorpe in memory of gremble the man who
04:32influenced you quite a deal i know just you sum up how important that will be to your Friday i know you
04:39might be out there um yeah Thorpe's been a very influential character as a player and as a coach
04:51um in english cricket um you know a few of us in that dressing room now spent a lot of time around
04:57him when we were younger coming through the ranks um as you know and then as we got into the into the
05:03main team you know Thorpe spent a lot of years around us um so yeah it's going to be a special day
05:10for you know all english fans um special day for um his family to be able to see um how much he meant
05:21to english cricket and how much he means to you know the current england dressing room um so yeah
05:28it's obviously will be an emotional day i think for a lot of people but also um a day where yeah
05:36one of the greats of the game and greats of english game can be appreciated we'll go joe rory and then
05:44will thank you you worked so hard to get in a position to play such a big role in this series
05:49you know all around the world you know everything you've been at the center of people have loved
05:55watching that also people have some perhaps been saying look ben would you take it easy do you think
06:01there's anything more you could have actually done to manage your workload in that sense over the course
06:05of course no not at all um um when i'm out in the field i play to win um i give absolutely everything
06:17that i possibly can if i feel um like there's a moment in a game where i need to put everything
06:27that i'm feeling aside i'll do that because it's how much this team means to me it's how much pain for
06:31england means to me and there's how much winning means to me um but there's absolutely nothing that
06:36i could have done before you know being a professional sportsman injuries as part of this game
06:41and can't do anything anything about them hey you are such a big figure in the team everyone knows
06:50it how do you expect this test match in terms of your influence on the team then even though you're
06:55not there on the field we've got some incredible leaders out in that 11 still you know um i know
07:02i'm a captain but i seek um you know advice um from quite a few people who've got some fantastic
07:09cricket brains out there um and you know we've got a team of 11 match winners um one person doesn't win
07:17you a game um and yeah just because i'm not playing or i'm playing doesn't mean that we're going to
07:24win or lose um we've had people put in some pretty special individual performances throughout this game
07:30and this is another opportunity for 11 different people to be able to put their hand up and hopefully
07:35win a game for england as well rory go ahead then you mentioned thinking about the winter ahead now like
07:41when you got the information from the medical team did you ask the question did you say like
07:47how does this affect the ashes uh not like that no um it was more of a what's the risk here what's
07:59the worst possible thing with where this current injury is at to where it could head to and
08:05yeah hearing where it could head to was not something that um yeah it was worth taking the
08:11risk of if you played this week it was potentially pretty bleak uh oh i could have played this week
08:17and nothing happened but i also could have played this week something worse happened so um yeah as again
08:21it's risk reward i'll always try and push myself as much as i possibly can so um yeah for me to say it's
08:28not right decision probably um understand where it's at
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