Grant Bradurn at the end of Day 1:

Elaborate on how well your twofast forwarders golden in the morning.

Yeah, very, very, very proud of Nasim and Shaheen.

Shaheen taking his hundredth wicket here today was very special for him for obvious reasons too.

Been a year in the 90s for him, a very long nervous 90s because obviously of his injury that happened in the same ground so he was very happy.

Obviously we're ecstatic for him to take his hundredth today and bowl very well in a game.

As you well know, we have only taken two seamers into the match.

We rely heavily on the two seamers being able to put in a really serious shift and both of the boys bowled superbly today.

I thought we finished the day well with that little session at the end. Probably our best spell of the day.

We started very well of course and managed to makesome inroads into a very strong top order of Sri Lanka and particularly pleased with the way we finished today.

There were some parts in the middle which we weren't 100% happy with.

We set very high standards for this team and in this new WTC cycle.

We're setting about a new brand of cricket for Pakistan.

We want to go to new levels and we're setting high standards and some of the standards in the middle just show that we're a little bit shy of match hardness, that's all.

How does he rate SSA and NS?

We've gota champion bowling attack.

Shaheen is one of the leaders of that attack but we've got a number of other champion bowlers who aren't in Sri Lanka currently and on the park in Sri Lanka.

So we pride ourselves on producing quality bowlers and we're very happy with the balance of our attack that we put out today.

But Shaheen and Nasim, as I said, they were required to put in a real shift today on a wicket that traditionally is a batting friendly wicket for a day and a half.

And they certainly responded very well today and they are certainly champions of our team.

But we're very proud of all of our sides (all formats) having a foundation of quality bowling attacks across all formats.

On Salman Agha

He's had some real success early.

He is a wonderful bowler in terms of the variations that he bowled.

But again today I think he also showed that Test cricket is still about learning and he's still a student of the game and he's a wonderful student.

He's always hungry to learn new things.

He has developed a new delivery which he hasn't released today.

You might see it in this match but maybe in the second innings and that really impresses me about him.

Have a huge respect for him as a person and for what he's done and he's a wonderful young man to work with.

He's difficult to catch to, he's difficult to read.

And with his new mystery ball, let's see,it might take him to new levels.

But he showed today that, and I think all of our spinners showed today, that the pace you bowl on this pitch was very important.

And at times we were too quick and allowed batters just to freely take singles at their will, and at times we were a little bit slow and that opened up scoring opportunities for them.

So on a pitch today which was rather slow, the pace of our spinners had to be deadly accurate and we weren't quite accurate enough and our pace wasn't quite consistent enough for the standards we set. But we've already spoken about that and they understand.