Concerns over consistency and dealing with the pressure of Test level competition, the sort of 'mental vermin' that fuel my game.

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Even Daniel Vettori, who had such a stranglehold over England for much of the Old Trafford Test, could not build pressure against Pietersen and Ambrose, not helped by the slow surface and failing to record a maiden.

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