On 21st may 2004, England’s left handed opening batsman Andrew Strauss scoring a 100 against Newzealand is the fourth English batsman in history who made a century on his test debut. Strauss captain of Middlesex, knows very well that what the pressure in a game and how to be handled. His batting combining brilliant judgement and excellent timing is very much spectacular. He has two glorious hundreds against the McGrath-Warne based strong bowling attack of Australia in the historic Ashes winning of England. In the later summer he was given the captaincy due to the injury of Englands regular skipper Vaughan and Vice captain Flintoff. White washing Srilanka by 5-0 in ODI series, century in Lords, won the test series by 3-0 against Pakistan- all these success made him talk of town. But the following winter when Flintoff  came back as captain of England, Strauss then had been out of form for the first time. Even he was kept out of side from the best XI also. But in 2008 his royal come back occurred when he was again called upon to join his team for the Newzealand trip and in the final test of Napier he played a sensational innings of 177 runs which helped England a lot to win the series, where Strauss was the player of the series.