"It's an extremely sad day for Australian cricket."

"You would have thought over 400 would be enough. But Herschelle and the boys were too good and they deserved their win."

"It's a bit of a shame not to have Andrew because he's a fairly dynamic player in 20/20 cricket. But there's little point in him playing now and then being forced out in the middle of the one-day series."

"We are here to play our best test cricket. Things have been going according to plan for us in the past few weeks and we will try to freshen up and get our focus back."

"This Australian cricket team is still the best cricket team in the world and as far as I'm concerned, the best sporting team in the world. For me to be the captain of that side is a great honor and a great thrill."

"We can go out and play instinctive cricket with the pressure off."

"Cricket just takes a back seat, however much time he needs he's got. He's said his intention is to keep playing, but we'll just have to see how things unfold over the next weeks."

"They have played some very good one-day cricket over the last couple of years, probably particularly in South Africa, so they'll be definitely up for it."

"It does look like a good wicket. I think it'll be a fairly traditional Sydney cricket wicket. It'll be unlikely that we'll make any other changes."

"We have played very good cricket in Australia and we know what we are capable of."

"There's a tendency for balls to swing around here and hopefully we can take a few early wickets."

"He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there."

"The competition we've had here has always been strong. The last series in Australia was particularly intense."

"We had a few communication mix ups and it cost us. Two of our first three wickets were run outs and we were on the back foot for most of our innings. Sri Lanka played a very good game though - they batted well and put us under pressure."

"We're just trying to pick the best team for this game, first and foremost, but he's a young bloke who is hopefully going to be around the team for a long time."

"I am doing the best I can and I am sure the other guys are trying their best as well, we just haven't put it together yet."

"He has played every match for Australia in all forms of the game for the past 10 months, and we think this is the right time for him to allow his body to rest. These rests have been done before and we have found that when the guys have a chance to have a break, the results indicate that it is good for them."

"Once I got past about 30 I felt really settled. I've been saying all along I was batting well and a big score wasn't far away."

"Every player has had an impact at some stage, and it would be hard to leave someone out."

"We couldn't risk or afford to have him actually have to face any deliveries in the game. If we needed two to win and he had to go on strike, I would probably have had to declare or do something like that, which would have been pretty hard. As he just said to me then, he wouldn't have spoken to me ever again as long as he was alive. [But] the risk factor there was extremely high."

"I'm sure the rest of the players sitting here are 100 per cent behind the coach. I'm really happy with the feeling in the group at the moment. I think we all understand the challenge that lies before us and we're all up for it. I'm sure you'll see us play some great cricket."

"We played very well this week, and it was a good team performance. But I'm not sure if the West Indies played as well as they can. We probably expected a little bit more."

"It's been a very good team performance from us, we have looked at lots of areas where we can improve our Test match cricket and we've certainly addressed some of those in this game,"

"I think listening to him before the game he wanted to be more economical and not go for as many runs which probably meant he wanted to drop his pace,"