344 ordspråk av Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting
We're in really good shape for the finals and we're really looking forward to it.
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We're just trying to pick the best team for this game, first and foremost, but he's a young bloke who is hopefully going to be around the team for a long time.
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We're nowhere near our best yet but we still came away with a good win.
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We're out there appealing every time we think something's out. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
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We're regarded as the No.1 team in world for what we've achieved over a long period of time.
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We're saying all the right things in our team meetings,
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We're still learning and hopefully we'll learn a bit more tomorrow.
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We've always seen it as a good way to promote a series, and not much more. But if they are going to play more 20/20 matches, then we had better start taking it a bit more seriously.
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We've been in this sort of situation before in series. We lost the first final of the VB Series a few weeks ago (against Sri Lanka in Australia) and won the next two.
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We've got to look at how Glenn's going to come up,
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We've got to look at how Glenn's going to come up. We're not really sure how he is right now, if he's going to be fit,
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We've had great success against Graeme Smith over the summer, there's no doubt, but he is a class player and we have to keep coming up with different plans. There's no such thing as a watertight plan - it's a very irrational game.
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We've probably got a decent first innings total already but hopefully we can start well in the morning and push on towards 400,
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We've probably never been in this situation before, where we're going into the last match of a series having to win to draw the series. I can't remember that in a long time,
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Well done to [Alcott] for getting me back this quick. It's a good result all-round.
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