<p> <br />The opening batsman hoped there was more to come ahead of a home season which features Ashes contest against Australia.<br /><br />England will head to the Riverside ground buoyed by a victory inside three days which put them 1-0 up in this two-match series and meant they’d won the opening Test of a campaign for the first time in 15 attempts.<br /><br />Ravi Bopara, in only his fifth Test, and first at home, made 143 in England’s first innings 377, having been given a chance to shine in the No 3 position ahead of the more experienced Owais Shah, Ian Bell and ex-captain Michael Vaughan.<br /><br />Meanwhile, man-of-the-match Graeme Swann starred with both bat and ball, making a Test-best 63 not out and then returning match figures of six for 55, which saw the off-spinner twice dismiss Shivnarine Chanderpaul, ranked the world’s number one Test batsman ahead of this clash, for nought and four.<br /><br />Meanwhile England debutant fast bowler Graham Onions will now travel to his Durham base on the back of a match return of seven for 102. “We played some pretty clinical cricket,” said Strauss, who hit the winning runs on his Middlesex home ground.<br /><br />“We’ve relied on KP far too much in the last 18 months,” Strauss told reporters. <br />“If you want to win games consistently you need performances coming from all eleven individuals. There were some different selections, fresh faces and they all came to the party.”<br /><br />Character was the key to Bopara’s selection and Strauss was delighted by the way in which the 24-year-old Essex all-rounder had made runs when England really needed them in the first innings.</p>
<p> <br />The opening batsman hoped there was more to come ahead of a home season which features Ashes contest against Australia.<br /><br />England will head to the Riverside ground buoyed by a victory inside three days which put them 1-0 up in this two-match series and meant they’d won the opening Test of a campaign for the first time in 15 attempts.<br /><br />Ravi Bopara, in only his fifth Test, and first at home, made 143 in England’s first innings 377, having been given a chance to shine in the No 3 position ahead of the more experienced Owais Shah, Ian Bell and ex-captain Michael Vaughan.<br /><br />Meanwhile, man-of-the-match Graeme Swann starred with both bat and ball, making a Test-best 63 not out and then returning match figures of six for 55, which saw the off-spinner twice dismiss Shivnarine Chanderpaul, ranked the world’s number one Test batsman ahead of this clash, for nought and four.<br /><br />Meanwhile England debutant fast bowler Graham Onions will now travel to his Durham base on the back of a match return of seven for 102. “We played some pretty clinical cricket,” said Strauss, who hit the winning runs on his Middlesex home ground.<br /><br />“We’ve relied on KP far too much in the last 18 months,” Strauss told reporters. <br />“If you want to win games consistently you need performances coming from all eleven individuals. There were some different selections, fresh faces and they all came to the party.”<br /><br />Character was the key to Bopara’s selection and Strauss was delighted by the way in which the 24-year-old Essex all-rounder had made runs when England really needed them in the first innings.</p>