John Buchanan Quotations

We were in control in the first few days with our batting and that's how we wanted to stay, ... We had set ourselves up to try and have a range of options as the day wore on so that if bad weather did eventuate, we were still in control of what we wanted to do. We didn't get ourselves into that position.

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Whenever you look at a game I am always reminded of a Bill Lawry quote that you should always add two wickets on and then re-assess the game. If we were to do that then I would say that it's evenly poised on a pretty good batting wicket.

So it gives us some room for improvement which is always a nice place to be.

Shane Watson is one player that played that role briefly in a Test match and certainly in our one-day games, so he's obviously a young player of the future and one that the selectors would have in mind.

Shane spoke to us in South Africa, and then again in Bangladesh. There are a lot of considerations for him, mainly in terms of the longevity of his career. He needs to come to a conclusion. With the contract meetings coming up, I imagine it will be one of the topics for discussion.

One would obviously think that hasn't quite worked, so it might have to be a little bit more of a direct approach from me.

Obviously quite a deal hinges on where McGrath is at. He is coming along well. He will have a bowl in the nets tomorrow, and we will have a better idea of where we are going then.

Ricky and senior players have just reiterated some approaches. We are hoping we will leave the tour unscarred.

I don't know about overhauls but there would be some fall-out if Australia lost the series 2-0, no doubt.

Basically the way we have been approaching it at the moment is a self-management approach, leaving the quick-bowling group to work out their run-ups, measure those through the course of a training session,

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From his point of view as far as I've seen and talked with Shane, he's fine and ready to go. I think he'll be ready either for the second part of this innings or certainly the second innings of England's.

I don't think now is the appropriate time to go through the analysis of individuals, support staff, training, etcetera, ... But all those things are on the agenda and we have certainly been talking about them.

He was very close to playing (Thursday) but I think overall, even though he would probably have loved to have been out there, there were no guarantees that he would have got through the whole game.

He was very close to playing, but there were no guarantees that he would have got through.

He hits the ball in the air. That's just the way he plays.

He is just at a point at this stage where I think it is very difficult for him and everybody else to find answers.

I agree, it's a headache for all of us,

I think we've certainly got our noses in front. New Zealand had laid a platform and there was an opportunity for them to really get on with the game.

It had been allowed to languish for whatever reason over the better part of the 20th century.

I think there is still a bit of conjecture about what we want to do,

Jason is just the same as anybody else at the moment.

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

We could have started this route at the beginning of the series and talked about it for a long period of time,

We were keen to maintain the way we were batting,

We have batted in dark conditions. But the umpires have equipped themselves well and I have every confidence they made the right decision about the light.

There are a lot of things that everyone will take away from this tour. We've taken some interest in what England have in and around the team and the assistance they get from the England & Wales Cricket Board.

We will consider everything to give our players the best possible support we can.

We've put in place different measures to try to address that. It's not happening, but we'll keep working at it and hope in the next Test we reach zero tolerance.

Brett's one of the few people in world cricket at the moment that is bowling consistently at 150km/h. You only have to be a fraction out in your action and the ball could potentially go anywhere.

England set some benchmarks during the Ashes series which we can all aspire to and hopefully improve on and one of those notions is support staff around the team and we have been discussing that... the fine detail for that has yet to be worked out.

Each individual, I guess, had a bit of a rethink about what they wanted to do when they got out there. There was a reasonably good self-correction.

There's nothing better than an Ashes series. It's the old enemy and we are playing in the home of cricket where it all began. It's a highlight of everyone's involvement with Australian cricket.

There would be some fall out if Australia lost the series 2-0, no doubt about that at all. (But) the more cutthroat or the more challenging or the more knock out it is, that's all good for us because we're going to face it in eight months time in the ICC (Champions Trophy) and soon after that hopefully in the World Cup.

It was a case of talking to the bowlers and saying, 'It can't go on.

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You only have to look at Glenn's figures to say he's always a viable option. But obviously from his point of view there are a lot of family issues that need to be sorted out first. I guess we all wait and hope that it works itself out, and if it does then I'm sure you'll see Glenn McGrath striding in and adding to that tally.

They were looking for a backbone for an innings and they got that from Kallis and Prince. They really gave us little opportunity. They've put themselves in a good position by the end of the day.

They don't have any lines of communication ---- what they're missing, what they're lacking, or even if they have any fire departments operating.

There wasn't a lot of turn first day so it was an opportunity for the fast bowlers to bowl.

There were good parts to each person's bowling,

They're an excellent team. And we will be.

There's been an enormous change in the last five years.

A bowling all-rounder is a wonderful thing to have. At the moment we don't really possess one and therefore we make up the balance of our side according to what players we have in terms of what we're trying to do for a particular game. If we had a bowling all-rounder I'm sure that would be a wonderful bonus.

For example, if someone has a twisted ankle and they want to go to the hospital, our paramedics can downgrade it and call in one of these crews.

It still remains not a very wise, or safe, or even sane policy to try to liberate a village by destroying it,

It's obviously a headache for all of us - the bowlers, the captain to the support staff,

It's a long haul, but it's a good batting wicket. There is three days to go. Our job is to resurrect the ship, and hopefully if we can get a lead, we can put them in a position where they have to make some running in the game.

It's our job now to resurrect the ship a bit and put ourselves in a position where, if we can't get a lead over South Africa, we put them in a position where they have to make some running.

It's something that we need to correct - there's no doubt about that.

That hasn't quite worked so we need to take a little bit of a more direct approach.

It was an incredible spell from Glenn, no question,

It's very hard at a moment like this to go back over everything. I think there are a lot of things that everybody has taken away from the tour, both good and not good,

The fast bowlers showed there was enough movement in the air and enough movement in the wicket to encourage them and Ricky to keep them going,

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I know that a lot of the fire stations down there have been destroyed, fire equipment has been lost or destroyed, firefighters don't have any way to communicate. So are these firefighters alive? Missing?

I really see it as just a bit of fine-tuning, and that's what we've got to try and work on in the next couple of days. It's about the key deliveries that each of those bowlers might have.

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He's supposed to contact me and keep me informed. All I can tell you is that FEMA put a request in for a fire chief to help rebuild or reorganize fire departments from Baton Rouge south.

He's supposed to contact me and keep me informed, ... All I can tell you is that FEMA put a request in for a fire chief to help rebuild or reorganize fire departments from Baton Rouge south.

I can only relate it to the way he handled me four years ago,

I'd say our position is getting stronger, no doubt.

He's obviously batted very well in the last two games and he's a key player for them.

An all rounder is a wonderful thing to have. At the moment we don't possess one. If we had a bowling all rounder I am sure that would be a wonderful bonus.