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

There were good parts to each person’s bowling,

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

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...

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

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.

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...

It will have some bearing obviously,

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, … These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

He was very close to playing,

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...

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,

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,

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

We were keen to maintain the way we were batting,

There’s no percentage in this game. You’re gambling, and there are few winners. This is an apparatus in which the odds are built against you, and it can very well ruin [you] if you get...

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

His life could indeed be short, nasty, and brutal, … The Road to the Guilford Courthouse.

We set ourselves a target of not bowling one [no ball] and obviously we’ve just managed to miss that,

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...

It’s a headache,

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

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...

It’s a training thing,

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...

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.

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

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

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

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.

(The program) covers the brain and spinal cord injuries, being safe at school, being safe around buses. It also talks about water safety, how you always check to see how deep it is before you...

They definitely are doing the Lord’s work.

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

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

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

Revolutionaries – true revolutionaries – are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend...

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

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

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...

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.

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.

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…...

[But now it is Australia talking of lessons learned.] Everybody has taken a lot from this tour, … One of the interesting things is that England have made advances over the last four years and...

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...

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

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?

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...

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.

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

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.