Andrew Symonds
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"Andrew Symonds" is a former Australian cricket team all-rounder. A two-time Cricket World Cup/World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between Seam bowling/medium pace and off-spin bowling. He is also notable for his exceptional fielding skills.

Since mid-2008, he spent most of the time out of the team, due to disciplinary reasons, including alcohol. In June 2009 he was sent home from the 2009 World Twenty20, his third suspension, expulsion or exclusion from selection in the space of a year. His central contract was then withdrawn, and many cricket analysts speculated that the Australian administrators would no longer tolerate him, and that Symonds might announce his retirement. On 16 February 2012, Symonds announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, in an attempt to concentrate on his family life.

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I had to bite the bullet and be brave and try and play my way and things went fairly well today.

I just felt it was an important time of the game and to be contributing at that stage of the game would have made me feel good anyway, even if I had been scoring runs, so it was a great relief as well.

The thing I can't believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.

I didn't feel like it (the thigh muscle) was going to go again so it's feeling pretty good. It's been one of those ones we had to be pretty careful with because if I did it again it probably would have been the end of my tour.

We'll just wait and see. If it gets out of hand it gets out of hand, we're just here to play cricket.

It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel good even if I was scoring runs. It was a great relief. Hopefully, I can draw some confidence from my bowling and flow through to my batting here.

We haven't been pushed to three games for many years and Sri Lanka are a credit to themselves.

We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I don't know why he did it or why people do, it's up to them really. But it was a nice gesture, I suppose.

I was more relaxed. I felt ready to take up the challenge and wasn't nervous.