It's been a general trait of all (South Africa) captains over the years, especially Smith. That's the way they play. |
It's been played in really good spirit, ... Everybody's clapped everyone's runs, wickets, clapped people off. I think I've been one of the most aggressive players to play. I like throwing the ball at batsmen's heads and things like that all the time and I enjoy that, but you can also play in the right spirit. |
It's been played in really good spirit. Everybody's clapped everyone's runs, wickets, clapped people off. I think I've been one of the most aggressive players to play. I like throwing the ball at batsmen's heads and things like that all the time and I enjoy that, but you can also play in the right spirit. |
Mark Waugh's a great friend of mine and he's got to make a few quid somehow, even by joining you blokes [in the media]. |
Not at this stage, no. I'm retired. |
Over the last few years especially there haven't been a lot of five-day Test matches, so you're not exploiting the conditions late (in the) fourth day and fifth day, |
Shane needs constant support, encouragement and reassurance that he is the man. He loves to be loved. |
South Africa showed a lot of fight out there, and in the end we probably wanted it just a little more. |
Strauss played very well. He hung in there and toughed it out. |
That's nearly seven (wickets) a game in that time, so I must be doing something pretty right, ... If I keep bowling like I'm bowling -- and we've been playing against the best players of spin -- and I'm taking wickets at a better rate than I have in my life, then 700 is a possibility. |
The numbers have been pretty good, ... But however well I've been bowling and batting, that's irrelevant now. Now everything comes down to one match, and for me these are the situations I thrive on. |
The one thing about South Africa over all the years we have been playing with them is they have a lot of discipline with their batting and bowling. That's one of their strengths. Their weakness is they don't have much imagination or variety in their attack. There is not a lot of imagination with their captaincy. |
The one thing I'll remember from this series is the way it's been played and the spirit it's been played in. |
The pressure's on us as far as I'm concerned. We have to play well for five days. If we don't play well, for the first time in nearly 20 years, we've lost the Ashes. Hopefully that'll make us respond and the guys will soak it up and see it as a challenge rather than fear it. |
There are two ways of looking at it, like a heavyweight title fight if Bangladesh beat Australia in a one-day game they'd be the best side in the world, |