A good commentator is someone who obviously people like listening to, who gets the blend between description, entertainment and accuracy of conveying the event right. If you can do that in an interesting way, you are a good commentator.
What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.
No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.
The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.
Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
