Rawalpindi pitch 'will only get worse' - Jamie Smith - video Dailymotion

England's Jamie Smith talks about playing in 'alien conditions' after scoring 89 runs against Pakistan

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00:00I think people didn't quite know what to expect from that surface, heard quite a lot of things

00:07of what could happen, I think it was more wait and see and it was important to win the

00:11toss and that gave us that opportunity to bat on the best part of the surface. I can

00:18only see it getting a little bit worse from here, especially with the low bounce and a

00:21bit more turn hopefully.

00:23How alien is it for someone like yourself coming out of County Cricket to win the toss,

00:28bat first and face 100% spin all day long?

00:32Yeah it's different, but you sort of expect it when you come to the subcontinent, you're

00:35not expecting to have the same conditions as you are back home. It's actually quite

00:41good to face alien conditions, that's why you like coming away and experiencing different

00:46things and I think learning, that's the main thing, it's learning across the three test

00:50matches about yourself and where you can take your game.