'If I didn't do well, it was likely I wouldn't play Test cricket again'

I never planned my bowling, ever, all I did was concentrate on getting a good line and length. It was a vital match for me, because if I didn't do well, it was likely I wouldn't play Test cricket again.

I didn't think about the batsmen in that innings, I concentrated on getting my rhythm right, I had four fielders around the bat and that is all I wanted. Solkar at short leg, Ajit Wadekar at slip, Abid Ali/Venkat at leg slip, that is all I really needed -- the others were there to stop the ball reaching the boundary if I bowled a bad ball.

On my day I was always unplayable. I can't flight the ball. I was a fast bowler, really, everything I bowled was fast -- my top spinner, googly, flipper, everything. It was like asking Lillee to flight the ball, he couldn't do it, right? I had a different grip, like a seam bowler's with my fingers spread across, so I could get bounce off the deadest pitch. I didn't do too much thinking.

Bowlers like Bedi, Venkat, you find them constantly readjusting the field, but I never did that, I left that for my captain. All I wanted was the ball in my hand and the stumps in front of me. The first wicket I got was Edrich, with a faster one which went through him before he even got his bat down.

Keith Fletcher walked in looking very nervous, and he didn't survive too long -- Solkar got him with a superb catch at forward short leg. The next two wickets fell to mistimed shots. Then Venkat took a superb catch to get Luckhurst. Wadekar then got Bedi into the attack -- it wasn't like I was tired or something, but anyway, Bedi got the breakthrough when he deceived Underwood in flight and had him caught by Mankad. The last wicket was Price -- I was bowling, I kept it in the same spot and then bowled a googly, that was it.

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