"The Test series is over. It's past and the Australians are a pretty good one-day side. We have not played one-day game in the last six months. We have to start from scratch. One-day is a different ball game." - Talking to the reporters at Bangalore

"I was obviously very disappointed that we could not pull of a win, but I am certainly not unhappy with the side. I am proud of the fact that they kept going till the very end and put 100 per cent into their pursuit of a win." - The Aussie captain in his column

"I think India did deserve to win especially after the way they came back in Calcutta. It was a great achievement, and they repeated in Chennai."- In his column on the Indian victory

"VVS Laxman played ace Aussie leg-spinner Shane Warne better than anyone else in the world." - The Indian coach quoted as saying to the PTI

"I don't have a vision, it is not for me, but for the players, to have a vision. That is the most important thing -- it is they who have to decide what they want to do and achieve, and where they want to go. Once they have a vision and spell it out, it is my job to help them achieve it, if I can." - The Indian coach in an interview to the Rediff.com

"It has given us a little bit of confidence, which is important. It has given us self-belief. But I wouldn't get too excited about it. We should have won a lot easier here." - On India's victory at Chennai

"Our strategy is simple. We are trying to win more (one day) games than India." - The Aussie coach while talking to PTI

"We will use the bat." - The Aussie coach in reply to a question on the team has planned to tackle Harbhajan Singh

"I have pleasant memories of Bangalore since I got my highest test score of 153 at the Chinnaswamy Stadium." - The stylist middle-order player in his column in The Hindustan Times

"It would be silly of us to think of a 5-0 result even before the game begins. Right now we are concentrating on winning the first game and we will take it one at a time." - Quoted as saying in column in The Hindustan Times

"What a match. What a Test series. It was gripping cricket all the way through from the time the first ball was bowled to the moment Glenn McGrath bowled almost the perfect final delivery." - In his column in The Statesman

"They were beaten by a better team, but they never gave an inch and never stopped trying." - On the Australian fightback at the Chennai Test in The Statesman

"Laxman at the SCG was no fluke. I liked the way he played off the back foot and I liked his footwork in Sydney - in the series just completed both aspects were magnificent." - On VVS Laxman's batting