“I’m expecting to see more of that in this series”
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South Africa ODI captain AB de Villiers has announced that he expects the hostilities and sledging between the Proteas and Australia to resume during their tri-series match, which gets underway today in Harare.
“The message we’ve given out at the moment, the game has given out, is that it’s okay to do this stuff”
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Legendary India batsman Rahul Dravid has announced that England pace bowler James Anderson needs to be punished for the offensive language he used against India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja.
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“The aggressive way we play is a mantra”
Australia Twenty20 captain George Bailey has announced that the national team’s pride has made things “so uncomfortable” for England.
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“If you can bowl a ball at someone’s grille, I don’t care who you are you’re going to feel intimidated”
Australia left-arm pace bowler Mitchell Johnson has defended his aggressive approach, stating that fast bowling has always been about “intimidating” your opponent.
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“Some of those scenes were ugly at the end of that game and we do have a duty to play the game in the right way”
England captain Alastair Cook has denounced both teams for the “ugly” scenes that ensued towards the end of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane and stated that it cannot happen again.
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“The five or six of us who are the real senior guys must lead from the front and put in a match-winning performance”
England captain Alastair Cook has announced that “the senior players must stand up” if the national team are going to have any chance of levelling the series during the second Test in Adelaide.
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“It’s always been the way with bowlers and some teams down the years to try to intimidate batsmen”
England batting coach Graham Gooch has announced that sledging has become a “part of the game” and batsmen simply “have to accept that”.
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“In the last few years I think I’ve developed it as a skill and it has helped me take the wickets that I have”
England pace bowler James Anderson has announced that he doesn’t have any plans to stop sledging after he was involved in a heated verbal conflict with Australia captain Michael Clarke towards the end of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.
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“I just love playing for England, you’ve heard me say that before, regardless of where [I bat]”
England batsman Joe Root has announced that as long as he plays in the second Ashes Test in Adelaide, he is not concerned with where he bats.
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“He can make a generic comment, but I think when you get personal like that, you cross the line on how players treat each other, and the respect they should have”
Legendary Australia captain Steve Waugh has announced that opening batsman David Warner’s comments about England batsman Jonathan Trott being “pretty poor and pretty weak” were “out of order”.
