Captain's Log - Feb. 12-Feb. 18

"Jonty leaves an indelible mark in the memories of cricket lovers throughout the world and he will be missed for the rest of the ICC Cricket World Cup." West Indian Carl Hooper after the retirement of Jonty Rhodes
Source: The Dispatch Online, South Africa

"It's very difficult when you're out of competition and you're out of the umbrella of your medical panel. It opens up an area which we've probably got to make a bit more thorough about because there is the opportunity for players to make mistakes." New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, about the Shane Warne drug controversy
Source: The Daily Times, Pakistan

"My job is to take care of the game. What happens off the field is not really my concern. It doesn't affect the players at all." Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak, on Andy Flower and Henry Olonga's black-armband protest
Source: The Times of India, India

"I have never seen him playing like this. He played an outstanding innings, played extremely well especially against Shahid Afridi. It was amazing how he hit through the covers. There were some glorious shots." Pakistan captain Waqar Younis, after his side's loss to Australia
Source: The Gloucestershire Citizen, UK

"We found out at 6 p.m. last night. Shane was very honest and told the whole touring party what was going on. We then had dinner and after that spoke about the issues and got everything off our chests so we could focus on today. It has brought the guys a lot closer together and today we played tougher, harder cricket." Australian captain Ricky Ponting, on the Shane Warne drug controversy
Source: Iafrica.com

"The time for fooling around has passed, and the Indians will take the challenge of Holland seriously." Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, on his side's opening World Cup game
Source: The Dispatch Online, South Africa

"On Sunday, there were 15 England cricketers discussing whether to go to Zimbabwe or not. It was a very emotional, very heated meeting. There were people in tears, there were people trying to weigh up all the difficult decisions that we had to make. There was a lot of emotion in the room. We weren't sure what we were doing." English captain Nasser Hussain
Source: The Daily Times, Pakistan