(Kallis) said that he got through yesterday's session fine. He felt it with one or two shots, cross-bat shots. |
A member of the public reported seeing the [truck] with the sculpture on the back on Thursday night. |
As a team we've got to take more risks and he's (Botha) a guy who wants to bowl in tough situations. |
As things are happening on this tour, we'll probably play a match or two without him. |
Australia has always been a scary and daunting prospect for South African teams. |
Australia really barraged them last night. |
Both guys we put down in the first innings went on to make hundreds. We really had the momentum and Mike Hussey's hundred at the back (of the first innings) took it away from us. |
But the other guys stood up well, although it was disappointing in the end. |
Chasing 434 is a bit surreal for us. But it was an unbelievable wicket and the batsmen were all able to play their shots. |
Coming in to today I felt a lot better about my game. I was more settled and a lot calmer in my head and obviously bowling well does add to your confidence. |
Coming out of the Test series, a lot of the guys who were here believed going back home we could beat them. We didn't take our chances. We had them under pressure on a number of cases in the Test series and just didn't drive it home. |
Credit to England - they've played hard and grafted hard for five matches and probably deserved their series win. |
Definitely. We're not disappointed with the fact that we got bowled out in the last innings, the disappointing thing for us is that we had opportunities but didn't take them. We always knew that batting last against the two spinners would be difficult but it was in the middle of the game that we lost it. |
Everyone in the whole team wanted to be positive this morning and go for a win. Cricket itself needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. |
For the first time in a while, Australia is seeing a competitive series at home. Everyone has taken to it. Everyone is lifting their game. There's always a lot of heat on the ground. There's always going to be tense moments and maybe heated moments, but I think that's what people would rather watch than a tame game. |