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Sri Lanka tour helped me: Martyn
The triumphant tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year has helped Damien Martyn grow in confidence and take on the Indian spinners in their own backyard.
The triumphant tour of Sri Lanka earlier this year has helped him grow in confidence and take on the Indian spinners in their own backyard, said Australian batsman Damien Martyn after cracking his second successive Test century against the hosts in the third Test on Tuesday.
"The tour of Sri Lanka has helped me a lot in playing on these pitches. It's just that we have been playing a lot of cricket here (in the sub-continent) in the last 12 months," said Martyn who scored 114 in Australian first innings score of 362 for seven after day one.
"It is satisfying to get these runs in tough spinning conditions against world class bowlers. As a batsman you have to do well against the best and I am happy that I did," the elegant right hander said.
Martyn, who had made 104 in the second Test in Chennai and has scored over 800 runs since the Lanka tour in 17 innings at close to 48 per innings, said his two back-to-back tons were totally different in style.
"The two were very different centuries. The last one came when we had our backs to the wall. Today, we were just looking to be positive, play our shots and get a good score on the board in the first innings," he said.
