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Normally the wicket has a little bit in the morning so we'll have a go at them first. We have some good pace so we want to let them loose.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
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It does give the guys a lot of confidence going into the next few Test matches. We know they'll bounce back. The (Perth) wicket was pretty flat.

Jacques Kallis
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Kumble is a great bowler having taken close to 500 wickets. He is a difficult bowler to face on any wicket.

Paul Collingwood
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It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play your shots.

Kamran Akmal
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Wicket-keepers have got to be able to score Test match hundreds - it's as simple as that.

Phil Tufnell
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It was one those bad days for them [the wicket takers]. I think they bowled a bit too short, but all credit to them. They bowled splendidly well throughout the tournament [the World Cup].

Sourav Ganguly
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It was a pretty good performance on a wicket that was easy to play on but not easy to score on.

Graham Barlow
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I'll go out there and just try to take a wicket every ball. I'm going to spray a few around the place.

Shaun Tait
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Wicket has not spun as we thought it would. But the signs are there (that it will turn tomorrow). If you bowl in the rough there's turn.

Alastair Cook
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The perception that the wicket was flat played a part (in the way South Africa bowled).

Ray Jennings
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It's been an interesting day's cricket. There was a little bit in the wicket this morning and their guys bowled very well and we made a good start but didn't bat as well as we probably could've done or should've done.

Trevor Bayliss
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Credit to them, they played very well. It was not an easy wicket to bat on early on - but they played like real champions.

Sourav Ganguly
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Thanks to them [the wicket takers] and my other team-mates for their efforts in getting to the final. Obviously we didn't win but I'm very proud of them.

Sourav Ganguly
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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.

John Buchanan
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It is not easy playing the new ball on it because it moves a lot off the wicket. That will be for both teams in the second innings also.

Kamran Akmal
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We are not going to blow them away, the wicket is quite slow.

Andrew Strauss
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It was a strange wicket and a strange day.

Michael Kasprowicz
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Early on I saw that the wicket was holding up, some balls were actually stopping so I decided to use the wicket as one of my weapons and change up my pace a lot.

Dwayne Smith
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I want to give the teams a normal cricket wicket, one the guys can bat on, but which also rewards bowlers who can get it in the right areas.

Christo Erasmus
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The England management have great confidence in Geraint Jones' batting. His wicket-keeping may leave a little bit to be desired but he does a job.

Chris Broad
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[Continuity of selection] helps, ... You don't want to be going out there thinking, 'This could be your last game, if you don't get a wicket you're out'. In the last 12 to 18 months this team has done some special things because we've been consistent in selection. Fletch and [Michael] Vaughan have a lot of faith in the people they select.

Ashley Giles
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The pitch had a lot of moisture on it. There was a lot of movement off the wicket, more than there was in the air.

Irfan Pathan
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I've obviously got a psychological advantage being a spinner against those guys, with the record that I've got against South Africa. If they want to juice [the wicket] up and negate me, I'll take my 0 for 40 and we win in three days. That means a series win and a couple of days of golf. I'll take it every time.

Shane Warne
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The wicket was pretty good. There was some moisture. The ball was doing something off the seam, but there was not much help in the air.

Irfan Pathan
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He has got natural ability to keep wicket and to strike the ball and it is up to us to help make sure he gets the most out of himself.

Rodney Marsh
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That's how I bat, I always go (to bat) with a positive frame of mind. It's a totally dead wicket and there is nothing in it for the bowlers.

Shahid Afridi
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They say Shaun's similar to Brett but, at the end of the day, they're wicket-takers. I'd love to go, don't get me wrong, but with Shaun there's a bloke who bowls 150kmh while swinging the ball, and gets audacious reverse-swing. Shaun bowled some of the fastest deliveries I've seen last Sunday.

Jason Gillespie
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The wicket was dead for bowlers and there was nothing in it for them.

Shahid Afridi
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It was a good wicket for the two days we played. We were fortunate enough to win the toss and post a challenging total.

Vikram Solanki
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Everybody came into this game full of confidence, everybody expected us to do well and everybody's disappointed with our performance. On a good batting wicket with our batting lineup, we should have got some more runs on the board.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul
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I was a little bit nervous this morning and a bit uptight and I sort of didn't let myself go as much as I could have but once I got the wicket it was a big release, and I started bowling better after that.

Shaun Tait
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If you manage to get on top of him when he's bowling over the wicket then he'll bowl around the wicket at you.

Mike Gatting
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We need to get that last wicket as soon as possible, bat well and then get them out quickly, ... But we'd have settled for this position at the start. If we bat with discipline, I'm pretty confident.

Craig Wright
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It's a pretty dry wicket that is going to spin, so we just have to be patient now. It's important we get a big lead and if that takes a lot of time, so be it.

Cameron White
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I am working with Ian Frazer and trying single wicket bowling and other new things to become a better cricketer.

Harbhajan Singh
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It was very tough, even though it was a good wicket to bat on, but a big credit to the Aussies, they bowled well on that wicket and I put my hand up and say that we didn't bat good.

Chris Gayle
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The ball had become wet going into the gutter after the fourth hit. I went to hit to mid-on but the ball didn't turn and the shot went to mid-wicket.

Shahid Afridi
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