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 • 'If there is something that every single player wants to have under his belt, it is a victory in India' Hansie Cronje on his teams chances on the tough tour of India. • 'My ambition was to play a Test in Australia against Australia' Debashish Mohanty, the Orissa lad, speaks about the ups and downs in his life. • 'Dravid looks more sound than the 'keepers we have at the moment' Syed Kirmani, the chairman of the Karnataka selection board and one of India's greatest wicket-keepers, on the lack of wicketkeeping talent in the country. • 'I just kept telling them to be positive cricketers; that's all' Roger Binny talks about his experience of coaching and managing a bunch of youngsters. 'I'm like a wild horse' Shoaib Akhtar, the tearaway fast bowler, talks about the chucking controversy. 'My off-side play is just one of the strengths of my batting' Sourav Ganguly, the 27-year-old southpaw, speaks about various issues surrounding his cricketing career. 'I bowled badly in the World Cup' Javagal Srinath, the Indian pace spearhead, talks about his disappointments and the rise of Karnataka cricket. • 'An old man is not necessarily good at his job' Andrew Kokinos, on his experiences with the Indian team as their physio. • 'I blame myself for being dropped, I wasn't consistent' V V S Laxman speaks about his climb up the cricketing ladder and his career so far. • 'I was in contention a couple of years before my debut' 
Rahul Dravid discusses his cricketing pedigree, his achievements to date and his evaluation of the tour of Australia just beginning.• 'I wanted to prove my class, so I was delighted that I got a hundred against Srinath and Kumble' Sitanshu Kotak, captain of the Saurashtra Ranji Trophy team, on finally breaking into the India 'A' team. • 'If you don't score runs you can't expect to get selected, and that's a pretty simple yardstick' Roger Twose, the hard-hitting New Zealand batsman, talks about his career, his best moments and future plans. • 'Eventually people will get bored of one-day cricket' Ian Smith talks about the falling standards in wicketkeeping and also the need to reduce the number of one-day games being played. • 'I'm happy that finally I made it to the team and succeded in scoring runs' Gary Stead airs his thoughts about getting into the New Zealand team and his career so far. • 'My priority is to establish myself as a specialist batsman in the side' Vijay Bharadwaj speaks about his short, but successful, journey into international cricket, and Karnataka's supremacy on the domestic scene. • 'Compared to the Australians in Australia and the West Indians in the West Indies, I reckon the Indian tour is the most demanding' Chris Cairns, the enigmatic all-rounder from Canterbury, speaks about his role in the Kiwi side, and New Zealand's World Cup campaign. 'I think that in the next 12 months this team will be a much better and fitter lot' Andrew Leipus, the Indian cricket team's new physiotherapist, stresses the need for enhanced training methods and promises a completely fit Indian cricket team in the coming months. 'I like it when people sledge me, it keeps me on fire' 
Sadagoppan Ramesh talks about his career and his goals in the near future.• 'We are a nation of 35 million sheep and three and a half million people!' David Trist, on his high-tech support team of computer specialists, and discusses the Kiwi prospects on the ongoing tour of India. • 'We are here not just to play hard cricket, but to understand the country and enjoy it' Jeff Crowe explains the need for a support mechanism for cricketing teams in the world and reveals his plans to defeat India on home soil. • 'It's going to be a tough tour, but one the guys are going to enjoy' Dion Nash talks about his recent form and fitness, and the tough tour of India ahead • 'Why should I offer this kind of money to two players for throwing away a match when there are 11 people in the side?' Aushim Khetrapal speaks in an agitated manner about the match-fixing charges levelled by Chris Lewis, the former England player, against him. • 'You have to remember that Kapil is coach, not selector. Our job is to choose the team, his job is to coach it' Chandu Borde, on his prodigy, Azhar, and his favourite players past and present. • 'A player should be a trier, above all he should be sincere' Chandu Borde airs his views on the selection process and other cricket related matters. • 'We have to ensure that senior players take part in domestic tournaments' A C Muthiah strongly voices the need to improve the quality of domestic cricket. • 'Can you risk Tendulkar getting permanently injured because you don't want to spend a few extra rupees?' Inderjit Singh Bindra talks about cricket administration in the country and his own role therein. • ''The players are not involved in match-fixing. I wish I could say the same for the administrators' Inderjit Singh Bindra, in a hard-hitting interview, speaks about the need to improve the game in all respects and about the match-fixing allegations. • 'We feel that Sachin is a national treasure...' T A Shekhar talks about Tendulkar's problems in particular, and those of Indian cricket. • For God and country... Shoaib Akthar talks about how god influenced his career. • 'Maan, if I was bowling today I would have been an off-spinner!' Michael Holding, the man who was dubbed the Rolls Royce of fast bowlers, discusses with Prem Panicker the India-Pakistan Test series, the state of West Indies cricket, and other issues. • 'It's pathetic that we have to field Srinath and Prasad in the slips' Jaywant Lele, secretary of the Board of Control of Cricket in India, speaks about the drawbacks of Indian cricket. • 'I will reveal the names to the CBI!' Manoj Prabhakar tells Pritish Nandy how he has been living under the shadow of death for daring to speak out against the impossibly powerful cricket mafia. • 'I don't think cricket is bent' David William Hookes on the current state on world cricket and how he feels about it. |
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