We need a team effort to cover for him. We don't have anybody who will probably hit 15 home runs, but we have a couple of kids with power.

We will make every effort to make this as quick as possible,

Not a bad effort for our first day of competition.

Hopefully, we can come back with a good effort Wednesday because if we don't, we'll be coming home for good. Everybody I've talked to seems to feel like the other district is a little stronger than ours this year.

With the effort we've put in, I don't think we deserve to go home as losers, so it's a must-win game for us. It would be a massive achievement to win here. Circumstances have forced us to play several new players so to beat India with all their experience would be a monumental effort. We've shown signs of being able to do that in patches during the previous Tests, but we need to get it right over five days.

[Its sequel, the Odyssey, describes the effort of one of the attackers to return home. It is] the epic of the displaced person, ... The cities are down and the survivors wander the face of the earth as pirates or beggars.