da mrbet： A selection of the best quotes from the ICC World Twenty20 2007-08
da dobrowin： Cricinfo staff25-Sep-2007
South African managed to fluff their lines at a major tournament yet again © AFP
“I don’t think there’s really time to choke, everything happens so quickly.”
“Our top-order batting has been diabolical even in the practice matches and it was again tonight. It is a mental thing for us and we have to start respecting the game.”
“Once we’ve won again then they can have a full go.”
“We have made the Super Eights in two big tournaments this year and it is about time they stop calling us a minnow. There is more to come from Bangladesh.”
“There’s a possibility of us humiliating Australia.”
“Unless you can back them up they don’t mean anything at all. If anything they were the ones who left humiliated today.”
“I told him to be free, and control his mind. He’s like a computer, he just has to bowl one ball but he might be thinking of bowling 100 different deliveries.”
“When the match ended in a tie, only then did we come to know that this [bowl out] would happen.”
“The opening was a rude awakening because we didn’t think there would be too many fours and sixes, then first ball and we were dancing.”
“I hope Twenty20 cricket will only be part of the landscape and not the future of the game. But I suppose we guys have to take this game seriously too.”
“When I got hit for five sixes I got so many phone calls – nobody called me when I used to get a hundred and I got load of them making fun of me so I thought that wasn’t right and I wanted to give it back.”
“Shane Watson seems to have recovered very well from his hamstring injury.”
“I guess we do find ways to get out of these tournaments.”
“We have to find out a solution to get over the line, I don’t have a magic answer but I know we’ll be ready the next time the chance comes.”
“A bit stuttery for us, wasn’t it? A bad start and then a win and a loss and a win … We never really got into a great rhythm.”
“Before I start I should say I read an article by you in Cricinfo. You’d said Australia were the favourites. Today I think me and the boys, we proved you wrong.”