Well that didn’t go quite as well as planned.
It's obviously disappointing to lose the opening Test in Brisbane, but in the Ashes you’ve just got to park it and look forward because there is so much more cricket to play.
We know where things didn't go too well for us and we know where we let the game slip away. If you bat first, 140 in the first innings just isn’t going to cut it.
But we also know that there are some good things to take out of the Test match as well, such as the bowling efforts of Ollie Robinson and Mark Wood, plus the partnership between Rooty and Dawid Malan. This is what we need to build on.
If you just look into the fact that you lost then you can maybe get a little bit too sidetracked because of the result, but there's four games left and we have the ability to win enough of them to come out on top.
Now is not the time to panic. It is about keeping a clear head and staying calm and making sure that our cricket is at the level we want it to be.
We have a good track record of bouncing back pretty well after a defeat early in a series.
We came back against South Africa to win, we came back against the West Indies last year to win, so we’ve done it before and we can do it again.
For me personally. It was great to be back out there. It had been a while but I thoroughly enjoyed being back on the field again.
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Having a long break is going to show itself I guess, but there are no excuses from me.
I didn't do anything whatsoever except take a catch and bowl a few no-balls, so the one positive is that I probably can't get much worse than that.
With the bat I actually felt good, until I got out in both innings. That’s all it takes. One ball and your day is ruined just like that.
People will have seen me rubbing my knee from time to time when I was in the field, but rest assured I’m fine. It is an old injury that flares up every now and again, but I know how to manage it.
It just gets a little bit uncomfortable every now and again in and around my cartilage, but it just looks worse than it is by the way I try and get off it as soon as I can.
It was frustrating to have David Warner out early in his innings only for a no-ball to chalk it off.
Some have suggested that I knew it was a no-ball immediately after he was bowled, but I didn’t, that was just my reaction.
It was only when I turned round and saw the way Rod Tucker was talking that I thought it might have been and it turns out there were quite a few.
There are two sides to it. I should be behind the line, but as a bowler it is also helpful when the umpire lets you know you are over, but I wasn’t told until it was too late.
We are now in Adelaide for a day/nighter which should be a great spectacle. It is where I made my debut and is a terrific place to play cricket so I’m looking forward to getting out there again and helping to put us back on track.
