Stephen Fleming
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"Stephen Paul Fleming", New Zealand Order of Merit/ONZM is a former New Zealand cricketer, and captain of the New Zealand national cricket team, known as the Black Caps, in Test match (cricket)/Test and One Day International/one-day cricket. Known for his astute tactical abilities, he is New Zealand's second-most capped test player with 111 test appearances, longest-serving and most successful captain, having led the side to List of New Zealand Test cricket victories/28 victories and having won Test match series' against India national cricket team/India, England national cricket team/England, West Indies national cricket team/West Indies, Sri Lanka national cricket team/Sri Lanka, Bangladesh national cricket team/Bangladesh and Zimbabwe national cricket team/Zimbabwe. He retired from international cricket on 26 March 2008. Fleming played in the 2008 Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings after being signed for US$350,000 and became the team's coach from 2009. In February 2015 he was signed as coach of the Melbourne Stars of the Big Bash League.

He was particularly noted for his captaincy, having been praised from the likes of Shane Warne as the "best captain in world cricket" and most recently, Graeme Swann who said that Fleming is one of the two true leaders that he's ever seen, alongside Andrew Strauss.

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I am more concerned about how my team is doing rather than worry about the opposition.

We played below par today, but I still feel good about the prospects of winning the tournament.

We are very keen to know about ourselves and understanding our own players rather than worry about the opponents. This is a thing which a lot other teams ignore.

That we have been here for 10 days is an advantage. This is a place which takes getting used to. The day may start mildly, but the afternoon can cause burn in the lungs.

It's false, it detracts from the game and it doesn't add any meaning to it.

That was against Australia. And we didn't have as good a side as we do now.

The substitute also means that the team that wins the toss starts the match with a distinct advantage.

Four or five underlying injuries which may surface at some time, so we have to be careful.

England always play under a huge amount of pressure. Australia are used to dealing with it and they just roll on.