Pithy remarks and quotable quotes. Wordsworth takes the best statements of the week and packages them into one exciting feature. From quotes that help you delve further into the psyche of players to acerbic barbs from incensed cricketers to remarks that are just downright hilarious, we have them all. They may not quite be "from the mouths of babes and sucklings," but they are just as interesting.
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May 4th week
We just need one good partnership in the morning. I'm very confident
we will get at least 350-400. - Harbhajan Singh at the end of day
two of the fifth Test.
It's my first century in front of my home crowd. I'm very pleased.
-West Indies opener Wavell Hinds after his century in the Jamaica
Test
He showed a lot of character in Antigua to score 65 and then came here
in front of his own people and got a hundred. Congratulations to him.
-West Indies skipper Carl Hooper praising Hinds.
I feel that you are not at all enjoying your batting. It seems you
have the pressure on your shoulders as well as at the back of your
mind. Why increase the pressure on yourself? Just go out there and
enjoy your game. - West Indian great Viv Richards advice to
Tendulkar
I think I would have had a bowl as well. I guess they wanted to make
use of the conditions just like we would have done. - West Indies
skipper Carl Hooper on Sourav Ganguly's decision to have a bowl at
Jamaica.
He (Tendulkar) is very solid and he's certainly got a better technique
than Sunil Gavaskar, who has all those record centuries. - former
Indian wicket-keeper Farookh Engineer on Sachin Tendulkar.
Yes, at least in the first match he (Dravid) will be standing behind
the stumps. We just want to see what he can do there. - Indian
coach John Wright confirming that Dravid would keep wickets in the
first one-dayer.
We will have to take it as the first Test of the series, forget about
out past successes and play as though it's the only Test of the
series. Pressure will be on both teams - perhaps a bit more on the
West Indies, as playing at home always adds pressure. - Sourav Ganguly ahead of the Jamaica Test.
The fracture will take three weeks to heal, but there would be no
problem in his return to the game in two weeks. - Dr Kishore Nayak,
the surgeon who fixed Anil Kumble's fractured jaw.