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How To Win The Ashes: Mitchell Johnson on the 2013–14 Ashes series

Test Match Special

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Mitchell Johnson Bowles' Test Cricket

I was still pretty nervous because I hadn't tested myself at Test Cricket. The first two I was bowling to Alistair Cook, I couldn't actually breathe,. I was like physically struggling to breathe because I was so nervous. When you come up against Mitchell Johnson's in that kind of form he can really rough you over. There was a pretty clear game plan and the game plan was to just not interact with the England team when we saw them around the ground outside the ground. So we made a real effort to, I guess not saying anything to them at all. We may have even been called some nasty names by them but yeah that was yeah that was a clear game plan for us

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