Nasser Hussain Quotes

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Nasser Hussain

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 28, 1968

Michael Atherton's powers of concentration never cease to amaze me. When you need reminding what Test-match batting is all about, who else would you have at the other end?

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Seems to me the rules are loaded against batsmen. If bowlers show dissent after a near miss they never seem to get punished.

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I want to captain England in more Tests than anyone else.

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I want to play 100 Test matches for England.

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Above all, I want to captain England in more Test victories than anybody else.

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It was Test cricket as it should be played, when the irresistible force in Allan Donald met the immovable object in Mike Atherton at Trent Bridge in 1998. And I was happy to watch from the best seat in the house - at the other end.

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Batsmen like Gary Kirsten, Boeta Dippenaar and Neil McKenzie have good techniques and can bat for long periods.

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There is nothing worse after a long car journey than to have to go to meetings.

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Edgbaston is a ground where you have to think on your feet because it can vary so much from season to season or session to session.

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Captaining England is the best job I've ever had and the last thing I would want to do after more than four years is hand the Test job over to someone who wasn't up to it.

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A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.

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It's not an issue for me if I captain England in 42 Tests or in 50. It's a question of what is best for the team in Test and one-day cricket.

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It sounds sycophantic, but I don't think I have met anyone in cricket who gives so much to a team as Marcus Trescothick does to England.

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Trescothick hates it if somebody starts taking the micky or running other people down - which can happen a lot in some dressing-rooms - and he makes sure he stamps it out.

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Politicians as diverse as Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe have been quoted at our team meetings. That is how political England cricket tours have become.

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I'm never going to have a Test average of 50 like Tendulkar. All I want to be is the best that I can be.

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I'm not naive and realise it doesn't make good commentary or sell newspapers if you only say nice things, and the time does come when you have to say someone isn't good enough and has to go. But commentators like Richie Benaud have shown that criticism can be made in a constructive or humorous way.

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When I first came into the England one-day side and joined the selectors, I wanted to move away from picking what some people called the bits-and-pieces to the best batsmen and bowlers.

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Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

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One-day cricket is about continuity, team ethic, understanding each other's role, where everybody fields and bats, when and at which end they want to bowl.

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