Darren Lehmann Quotes (12 Quotes)

It's better to be top than chasing it. NSW managed to beat us on the fourth day in Sydney after winning the toss with the whole Test side, so I wouldn't mind playing them without the Test side, put it that way.

I am happy to see it scrapped because it was a pain in the backside. It was just unfair because whoever won the toss had a major advantage.

It's how you should play cricket. They did the right thing declaring at tea and we set a total they can get if they play very well.

He is a bloke who can win a World Cup for Australia - he is that good.

I'd hope they would give him (Gillespie) another go but, if they were to replace him, I would replace him with the youth of Tait,

I thought he would definitely have gone.

Matthew has stood up day in and day out for England over the past couple of years.

We are close to being in the finals of the one-day competition and we still can't get anyone in the Australian side. We have one of the leading run-scorers Mark Cosgrove and blokes who are getting wickets.

We've got some experienced blokes back, we're lucky enough to have Matthew Elliott come across, Jason back, Greg Blewett and myself, so that gives us some sort of basis with experience, and mix that with young guys we'll expect to play well, and we will play well.

If Glenn McGrath doesn't go to South Africa Jason Gillespie is a must. He has been there twice before and done well. If they don't take him then I think it's the wrong mix. They need some experience there. Brett Lee has held up magnificently but if Glenn wasn't there you would need some experience.

Yeah we haven't played well for the last few years, but we've been in a development role with getting some young kids involved, and that's been fantastic for us so now it's a case of really starting to play well,

Australia have been extraordinarily adept at keeping players fit, their injury management having been as far ahead of the rest of the world as their batting, bowling and fielding. The best-known monument to Errol Alcott is Steve Waugh's comeback hundred at the Oval four years ago, but the physiotherapist's life's work has been in preventive medicine. Alcott was the first, for instance, to insist on ice baths for players at the end of each day's play to aid recovery. When I first started they put the beers on ice, ... Now they put the players on ice.