James Franklin Quotations

We're forecasting weakening over the next 12 to 24 hours as it becomes less tropical and more resembles a winter storm.

We're forecasting it to become a hurricane in a few days.

He handles the meetings well, stays on top of everything and has the time to do the job.

Hopefully we can score a few more runs and then it's up to the bowlers to try and do a job on that wicket.

Our preparation and consistency in practice has led to success in games. It's taken three years for the team to find that consistent level, and right now they have it.

It doesn't have an awful lot of rain with it. There could be an inch or two of rain as it moves across southwest Spain today, but it should not be a weather-maker there.

That's the way the schedule has panned out so I just have to accept that. I'm looking forward to the New Zealand A tour to Sri Lanka next month and then I'll just concentrate on the domestic summer. I want to stay injury-free for the next six months and perform well, so by the time that first test rolls around against the West Indies I'm right in the frame.

We don't expect a lot of change over the next day or so, but the conditions could become more favorable (for a hurricane). This has been a very persistent storm in the face of some very unfavorable conditions.

We hadn't beat Emerson in three years, so that was a pretty good win for us.

We forecast this to be a minimal-strength hurricane.

Western New England just beat Williams, so that will be sort of a benchmark. We should be right up there if we continue to play well.

We didn't get out a lot. We went from hotels to grounds most days and we watched a fair bit of telly and stayed in reasonable hotels, so it was fine.

Experience is not what matters in developing better forecasts. What does is making improvements to the models and atmospheric observations.

I've only heard he likes to smash it -- he's a young Darren Lehmann.

It was tough at first, especially getting hit, but it got better all the time. We have scored more than we anticipated, and certainly more than the South Africans anticipated.

They're the greatest team in the world at the moment,

A major hurricane is quite possible. It's really too early to be taking specific precautions, but this is something that we will have some time to watch.

You can't help but learn when you're playing such a good team. At the moment if you can do well against Australia you can do well against anyone.

It was a tough session tonight but it's the umpires' call on the light, ... It was disappointing to lose two wickets but we've got a new day tomorrow to bat on and hopefully post a score that is defendable.

It's the first I've heard about it, I'm sure the boys will want to get a good night's sleep.

It's inevitable that I'll think about it but it's a case of going through the same routines and rocking up tomorrow to take each ball as it comes and, hopefully, each run as it comes.

It was a bizarre tour in terms of results but, forgetting what was going on in the background, it was a fairly standard cricket tour,

Once storms get into the Gulf of Mexico, I'm aware of only one storm on record that dissipated. It has almost nowhere to go except land somewhere.

Interests in Bermuda should monitor the progress of Leslie.

In terms of the wind speed, it's not really significant. It's only significant because we have these arbitrary boundaries between categories.

In about half the years, we don't even get that far.