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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

We are all proud and delighted for what he has achieved. He has improved much more than what we thought he would. Nobody had earlier thought he would take 500 wickets, but he has proved all of us wrong.
Kapil Dev

It was great to get those wickets at the end of the day to even the ledger out a little bit.
Scott Styris

We have borne the brunt again of a dropped catch. The bowlers toiled hard and I can't fault them for that. They tried to take wickets all the time.
Mickey Arthur

Hopefully, I think on Sri Lankan wickets we might have a slight chance of upsetting England. The guys are very keen. Initially bowling and fielding were our strong points, but the batting has got going. We have a balanced side. I will be happy if we can get to the last eight.
Roy Dias

That is Shane Warne's opinion only. You can't say 'cheap wickets'. He hasn't done well in India. I've done very well in India.
Muttiah Muralitharan

We only need three more wickets and the way the deck is playing it could be the first three balls tomorrow morning.
Dale Steyn

He has taken 580-odd wickets in Test cricket. So every team will want to have him in the side. His presence here for the Test is of course a big encouragement for us.
Mahela Jayawardene

I told him before the start of the test to think how fantastic it would be if both of us took five wickets in an innings. He just looked at me and smiled.
Makhaya Ntini

We need to do better in batting, ... We have been losing too many wickets with the new ball. If we get out of that habit we should be okay.
Habibul Bashar

But the players are keen, and we will try to take all the wickets we can.
Matthew Hoggard

They've got three or four pace bowlers taking wickets in a stable team.
Trevor Bayliss

Jamaica actually fought well in this innings but they gave it away in the first innings when their wickets fell so cheaply.
Albert Smith

I had to set up a platform so he could follow. I discussed it with him yesterday when he had already taken three wickets and I had taken four. I told him we both had a chance to get five wickets.
Makhaya Ntini

It was a great to get a couple of wickets. The first one flushed out the nerves and I settled down a bit after that. My head must have been down because I didn't see what happened, but I heard the stumps shatter.
Shaun Tait

Getting Test wickets is not easy so achieving a hat-trick has to be up there. It's quite a good feeling to have done something special.
Irfan Pathan

It was important we got off to a good start and we got two early wickets and picked up more pretty regularly through the day.
Shaun Pollock

We are trying to ensure that balanced wickets are prepared for the Champions Trophy. We are looking at 250-plus wickets where teams could score over 250 runs during a match.
Andy Atkinson

To make a century against Australia under any circumstances is always special. It will be hard work but there is definitely ten Australian wickets for us.
Andrew Strauss

Sunil was the first Test batsman to score 10,000 runs, David was England's leading run scorer in his day and Sir Richard and Courtney have both held the world record for Test wickets so there should be enough experience amongst our ranks to enable us to undertake the task.
Rod Marsh

I think we're going to have three result-orientated wickets, the series is still alive.
Nathan Astle

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

If there are injuries in the England camp, Chris wants to make sure he pushes himself forward as a candidate for a Test place. He bowled quick and well for us in pre-season games, and there's nothing to suggest he won't get those wickets.
John Emburey

I'm not totally happy with our score, we're probably 20-30 runs short but having said that I think we have enough on the board and I think we have the firepower in our bowling attack to get us early wickets and to put them under pressure very early and try and stymie them right to the end.
Wavell Hinds

I bowled in too many bad areas and bowled too many four balls but I was pleased to get five wickets.
Fidel Edwards

That is the way I get most of my wickets. Yeah, it was very special to get there.
Anil Kumble

We have just got our noses in front, although it was unfortunate losing Mike so close to the end. The morning session is crucial in the context of our first innings and maybe in the context of the game: if we bat well through to lunch we will be looking at a good score, if we lose a couple of wickets we will have to battle as long as we can.
Marcus Trescothick

It looks like the wickets are playing pretty well and are similar to here by the looks of things, so it should be good.
Phil Jaques

This is an opportunity to get used to one-day cricket, back to facing the white ball and try to do better than what we did here in September when the ball moved a bit and we lost lot of wickets early.
Dav Whatmore

I thought that we played really good cricket. It's just unfortunate that we lost a few wickets. That is what put us back.
Ryan Hinds

But we have done the same when we have bowled. You just have to stay patient sometimes and keep hanging in there because you never know, you might get two wickets in the over.
Marcus Trescothick

Those last two wickets were definitely the cherry on the top and I'm sure knocked them a little bit in the dressing room.
Shaun Pollock

It's always a nice feeling to be among the wickets, especially on these slow turners.
Brian Blackwell

After we lost early wickets I knew my contribution was vital and I knew I just had to help see us through.
Leon Johnson

We lost wickets in pairs too often and, when bowling, we had a couple of loose spells and that's where the game was lost.
Fraser Watts

I felt pretty good, there was some decent pace but a couple more wickets would have been handy.
Michael Kasprowicz

He's swung the ball, taken wickets consistently, and been a popular member of the team. We wish him a swift recovery, but know that Wise will be a handy replacement should he get the nod in the final XI.
Greg Shipperd

The president narrated most of the incidents in the series and he even knew what type of wickets we had in the first two tests.
G.s. Walia

If I can get nine wickets every Test match I play it will be great, but (I'll take) one game at a time and we'll see what happens.
Stuart Clark

How the game (2nd ODI) was going it was required for someone to stop the flow of wickets that the opposition was getting so I had to decide what role was best for the team so that was the role I took up to stop the flow of wickets.
Runako Morton

He's one of the few spinners in England who is not a containing spinner and he is able to take wickets. He is a player of immense ability and for the latter part of last season was the best spinner in the country. He's very tall and he gets good bounce and turn.
Kepler Wessels

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