Quotes by Andrew Symonds

“Its a tricky game and to be able to contribute in an important session like that felt good.”

“I just felt it was an important time of the game and to be contributing at that stage of the game would have made me feel good anyway, even if I had been scoring runs, so it was a great relief as well.”

“I was more relaxed. I felt ready to take up the challenge and wasnt nervous.”

“We thought it was a fairly obvious out. I dont know why he did it or why people do, its up to them really. But it was a nice gesture, I suppose.”

“I had to bite the bullet and be brave and try and play my way and things went fairly well today.”

“It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel good even if I was scoring runs. It was a great relief. Hopefully, I can draw some confidence from my bowling and flow through to my batting here.”

“The thing I cant believe is they must have rigged the voting, how can you keep up with him, Mr Cricket.”

“We havent been pushed to three games for many years and Sri Lanka are a credit to themselves.”

“Well just wait and see. If it gets out of hand it gets out of hand, were just here to play cricket.”

“I didnt feel like it (the thigh muscle) was going to go again so its feeling pretty good. Its been one of those ones we had to be pretty careful with because if I did it again it probably would have been the end of my tour.”