John Buchanan
John Buchanan
John MacLennan Buchanan, PC, QCis a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 20th Premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990 and as a member of the Senate of Canada from 1990 to 2006...
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We've put in place different measures to try to address that. It's not happening, but we'll keep working at it and hope in the next Test we reach zero tolerance.
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England set some benchmarks during the Ashes series which we can all aspire to and hopefully improve on and one of those notions is support staff around the team and we have been discussing that... the fine detail for that has yet to be worked out.
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It's a long haul, but it's a good batting wicket. There is three days to go. Our job is to resurrect the ship, and hopefully if we can get a lead, we can put them in a position where they have to make some running in the game.
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There would be some fall out if Australia lost the series 2-0, no doubt about that at all. (But) the more cutthroat or the more challenging or the more knock out it is, that's all good for us because we're going to face it in eight months time in the ICC (Champions Trophy) and soon after that hopefully in the World Cup.
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You only have to look at Glenn's figures to say he's always a viable option. But obviously from his point of view there are a lot of family issues that need to be sorted out first. I guess we all wait and hope that it works itself out, and if it does then I'm sure you'll see Glenn McGrath striding in and adding to that tally.
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There are a lot of things that everyone will take away from this tour. We've taken some interest in what England have in and around the team and the assistance they get from the England & Wales Cricket Board.
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We will consider everything to give our players the best possible support we can.
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Brett's one of the few people in world cricket at the moment that is bowling consistently at 150km/h. You only have to be a fraction out in your action and the ball could potentially go anywhere.
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We have batted in dark conditions. But the umpires have equipped themselves well and I have every confidence they made the right decision about the light.
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I don't know about overhauls but there would be some fall-out if Australia lost the series 2-0, no doubt.
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One would obviously think that hasn't quite worked, so it might have to be a little bit more of a direct approach from me.
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Basically the way we have been approaching it at the moment is a self-management approach, leaving the quick-bowling group to work out their run-ups, measure those through the course of a training session,
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So it gives us some room for improvement which is always a nice place to be.
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Shane Watson is one player that played that role briefly in a Test match and certainly in our one-day games, so he's obviously a young player of the future and one that the selectors would have in mind.