The teams are matched up pretty well. If anything, we need to pick it up a step in our ruthlessness on the field. We need to finish things off. We may just get a bit tense, and that comes down to inexperience, playing the best team in the world. I think 1-0 down is disappointing, but it hasn't hurt us and in a lot of ways, I'm very positive about us. As captain, I feel we're very close to hitting the mark ...and we're going to come back hard in Sydney. |
The whole game could have been different. Those were key moments. If we'd held onto our chances, we might have had a lead of 100. |
The whole team wanted to be positive and wanted to go for a win. Cricket needs positive games. It doesn't need teams batting out and drawing games. For us, as a team moving forward, we're young and we need to be positive. To set a declaration and to try to go for a win was in our minds the only way to play. The negative option never came in. |
The wicket will probably be quite dry. He's an unknown talent. He's young, he's exuberant, he's really excited about playing for his country and that's good. |
There is a lot of pressure on them. They have been an established team winning everything for so long that people cannot accept that things are not going so well any longer. |
They didn't beat us just in the cricketing department. They beat us with the commitment and passion. |
They only gave us one option, and we had no positive response in the match situation after their first innings. It surprised us when they batted on so long - it was two or three hours more than we thought they would. |
This is a very valuable statue and we are working closely with the Henry Moore Foundation to ensure its safe return. The foundation is offering a substantial reward for information leading to its recovery. |
This is massive for him. Life's all about opportunities and he's had a really tough year being up and down but through performances he's worked his way back into the squad. |
This tour was without doubt the most difficult one of my life. |
This was probably the best team performance in one-day internationals under my captaincy, |
To be fair everyone can see we haven't had certain things go our way but I also believe that you make your own luck. |
To play 12 one-day games in a competition can get a little bit much, and they need to re-look at that if they are going to have a triangular competition again. |
To play someone for four or five months definitely takes its toll, it's like Groundhog Day some times. |
Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise. |