"I am English," said Graeme Swann. "We get nervous about anything: your football team can be 4-0 up at half-time and you daren’t watch the second half.
"It will be a great day’s cricket, it wouldn’t be the Ashes if it wasn’t like that, and I am glad these first two Test matches are living up to 2005 because the worst thing for me would be to play in my first Ashes series and it be a load of rubbish.
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"They are in a much better position than they could have been but with a new ball and everyone fit and firing we have a chance for wickets because the first session is when they tend to tumble.
"We are going into the day very comfortable, it is still a mountain of runs for
"We were on cloud nine at one point, having them five wickets down, but you expect a good partnership at some stage on a good pitch, which is what it still is out there."
"I can understand how some people could view it negatively but I don’t see it that way at all."
Swann said: "We have one of the quickest bowlers in the world flying down the hill.
"He runs up and bowls so fast and so heavy, no-one wants to face him.
"It is a massive boon we have him bowling for us because I wouldn’t want to face him. Ever again!
"Every time he goes off the field and comes back on, you think ‘is that going to be the end of him?’ and he bowls at 95 miles per hour again.
"KP had a stiff back but he came back out because he is desperate to be out there with all the boys.
"As far as we are concerned there are no problems there with injury."
"We can’t do anything about that," Coach Tim Nielsen said. "We knew at times things would go our way and things wouldn’t whether it would be umpiring decisions or weather or how we were playing.
"I would have liked to have seen Strauss’ catch go to the third umpire from a consistency point of view.
"In the end we’ve all seen the replays and we can all make our decisions and at the moment the scorebook says Phillip Hughes is sitting up with me."
Swann said: "It is just accepted these days that the batsman has the right to stand and ask if it carried.
"As far as we were concerned there was no problem with the catch – it went straight in.
"Fifty years ago you would take the word of the fielder but in this day and age, with all the technology, I don’t think you blame anyone for standing around."
"At the moment we’re feeling pretty good about the position we’re in knowing that tomorrow if we play as well as we know we can, we’ve got a real chance of winning the Test match," insisted Nielsen. "We’ve never talked about saving this Test match.
"There’s a feeling of excitement and opportunity."
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