Nottingham, July 29: Coming in to bat when the England were tottering at 117 for the loss of seven wickets, Stuart Broad bailed the struggling hosts out with a 64 off 66 balls. His 73-run partnership with Graeme Swann saved England the ignominy of being bowled out for less than 200 run after being put in to bat.

In a post-match interaction with the media, Broad spoke about batting in front of his home crowd and the importance of the tail-enders being able to score runs.

On playing at his home ground in Nottingham

Yeah, it was [satisfying] personally. I enjoy coming back to Trent Bridge; the major thing is it’s an exciting place to play cricket. The ball swings, but also there is good value for runs so I think India probably won three quarters of the day but we managed to lower the momentum back towards the evening session.

On the team talk in the tea session that resulted in the late blitz

[Graeme Swann] Swanny and myself are pretty attacking batsman anyway so we try and like to get the momentum back. The batsmen reported that if you are quite airy-fairy with the shot, you have a lot of potential to make it so we went out with strong cricket shots. India bowled fantastically well up until tea. You can’t say any of our batsmen threw their wickets away; there was a lot of pressure on the guys so we are delighted with 221 [runs] after being sort of 100 for six [wickets]. [We] would have liked a couple of more wickets this evening but the guys batted well to get through.

On whether batting skills have become mandatory for every England player

In international cricket around the world you need your tail to wag, so to speak. You can get momentum back. We work very hard, we have a lot of management staff around here […] and to have someone like Graham Gooch as a batting coach is pleasure. So yeah, it is something we work on and it’s nice when it pays off sometimes.