Craig Wright
Craig Wright
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With the new C&G format, by all accounts those games will be at weekends. So hopefully, we will have more access to our first-choice side which is something we haven't had this year. Guys won't be forced to use up as many holidays to play and that frees up other opportunities to go abroad and play.
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I know I've taken a lot from it as captain, ... Even when you're losing, it still toughens you up. You learn how to cope with different and difficult situations and we've done well to keep our spirits high. These guys have worked hard. They've had a chance to watch good players every week and learn from them. Take our game against Warwickshire last week. It wasn't enjoyable to watch Nick Knight build up an innings against us but the likes of Omer Hussain and Qasim Sheikh got a lesson in how to go about that. We've a lot of good young players coming through. We've taken this experience and learned from it and now we have to put it into practice in the future.
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Our finance minister remains the envy of the G-7 and perhaps beyond that.
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Overall industry production is expected to remain stable at elevated levels throughout 2006-2007.
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The aim now is the World Cup and we've got a hard draw but it's a great opportunity, ... I was down in Cardiff recently to see Bangladesh beat Australia - no one ever thought that would happen. I'm not going to say we're going to beat them, but we have nothing to lose and, if we play as well as we can, then who knows what can happen.
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While the drag from net trade will linger in 2006, most of the impact has already been felt. Our strong dollar will not prevent Canada's growth as the economy is expected to accelerate this year.
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We don't expect the dollar to continue to trade at such high levels and believe it will end 2006, a little lower, at 84 U.S. cents.
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This is just the sort of tour that we need to prepare ourselves for further international progress. We expect to have to work hard in all these games, and it is fantastic for us to be able to play the Barbados team at the end of it all.
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Again it was a story of not enough runs. We played pretty well to get to 100-1 but then did what we tend to do and lost wickets. It might have been closer in UK conditions but we want to be a side that can adapt.
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It's not been the most enjoyable of Bank Holiday weekends but we now know how much hard work is ahead.
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It's very important to us that we get some prior experience of the unique cricketing atmosphere in the Caribbean before we go to the World Cup. Although our competitive games in a year's time will all be at the new Warner Park Stadium in St Kitts, we will have some warm-up games in Barbados, and this trip is an ideal way to find out how to play the game in these conditions.
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It's not fair to ask someone to make that jump, which is why we need to bridge the gap,
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The best we can do is beat Ireland convincingly in Aberdeen and hope that the weather also affects Ireland's match against Holland.
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Although no-one has heard anything official there's every chance this could be Andy's last game. If that's the case we'd love to give him a winning send-off.