We targeted 135-140, that is what we prepared for. It is not going to be beautiful or sexy in these conditions.
Heather Knight says England's victory over Bangladesh was never going to be pretty given the tough conditions in the UAE at the Women's T20 World Cup
If he plays, I will bad-mouth him all day, all night.
R Ashwin has a plan on how to deal with fellow spinner Ravindra Jadeja being picked over him in the Tests in Australia
I get two cricketing geeks to talk cricket with me. I'm happy and I'm sorted.
R Ashwin is happy to be coached by his former team-mates, Rahul Dravid and Gautam Gambhir
I had heard of the stadium - Green Park - when I was young, and I thought that it's because the whole ground was green. I hadn't seen any stadiums at the time.
India bowler Akash Deep is delighted to see the Kanpur venue live up to its name
The understanding of the game for me is that cricket should improve wherever you play. I was just trying to help the other team, that they can set a fielder here.
Rishabh Pant explains why he helped Bangladesh with their field placement while he was batting against them in the Chennai Test
I took the second new ball and threw the old one as far as I could off the field. It's a disgusting thing, I've got it in my pocket and it looks as though I've been throwing it for my dogs for the past hour.
Durham fast bowler Matthew Potts on the effort of taking a career-best 9 for 68, in an innings win against Lancashire
I don't think we played our best cricket this week and that is going to happen from time to time. Coldplay can't be number one every week.
Joe Root believes England will be back with another hit single after their loss to Sri Lanka in the final Test of the home summer
He's obviously got a massive ceiling, and he's pretty massive himself as well, which is handy as a bowler.
Ollie Pope believes 6'7" Josh Hull will bring depth, and height, to England's bowling
You can't prepare for science and then sit a maths exam. If you're being tested for maths, you study maths. To play red-ball cricket, you must play red-ball cricket.
Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood suggests his team needs more long-format experience after losing to Bangladesh 2-0 at home
Do you need a bowling coach when I'm here? I will do everything that the team needs
One-man army Zaheer Khan, the new mentor of Lucknow Super Giants, when asked if there were any plans to appoint a bowling coach for the franchise
We didn't make a mistake reading the pitch, it just didn't play like we thought it should.
Pakistan's assistant coach Azhar Mahmood was thoroughly bamboozled by the Rawalpindi pitch
If the money is good enough, I'll play myself
India's former coach Rahul Dravid is ready for his biopic and his post-cricket career in the movies
He's already texted me saying he's going to be the coach, so I don't know what Baz is going to be doing.
Stuart Broad says Ben Stokes may be injured but he's looking to put coach Brendon McCullum out of his job while he recovers
Red-ball cricket is not my cookie, I don't think my body will keep up with Test cricket
That's the way the cookie crumbles for Andre Russell
Imad Wasim with the sort of connection that would make a Love Islander swoon...
Mark Butcher's love for reality TV finds its way into his commentary for the Hundred
Even if it's difficult for you, crack a smile. Whatever else happens, that will shock people.
India's outgoing coach Rahul Dravid has a word of advice during stressful times for his successor, Gautam Gambhir
The same train will go on. Only the engine has changed but the bogies are the same.
Suryakumar Yadav finds poetry in locomotion as he readies to take over captaincy from Rohit Sharma in T20Is
I made a joke with him: 'Hey, I have a wife and kids at home.'
West Indies centurion Kavem Hodge on joking with England bowler Mark Wood after facing a fiery 90mph spell from him at Trent Bridge
He's come to two other games and in one of them I scored 200, so yeah, he can come more often.
England batter Ollie Pope thinks Arsenal and England footballer Aaron Ramsdale is his lucky charm after the goalkeeper was at hand to watch Pope score a hundred on day one of the Trent Bridge Test against West Indies
There's no Test franchise stuff... if that comes out, that would be great.
New Zealand's Tom Latham jokes about what a player like him can hope for in an increasingly T20-focused landscape