Ground Conditions Quotes

My game takes time to adapt to grass; grass is a little bit different.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.

On Edens Gardens pitch, nobody bowls well.

I played a couple first-class matches at Carlton and Guaracara Park and it was a real burial ground for the fast bowlers.

Strike rates depend on the surfaces you play on.

The U.S. must continue to carefully withdraw troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on assessment of the ground conditions so we do not leave our Afghan partners unable to guarantee long-term security or risk Afghanistan becoming a terrorist safe haven again.

The problem is that neither the M1 nor the M60 or indeed neither any tank, has sufficient ground pressure to drive a [bulldozer] blade into even marginally hard ground. They are not bulldozers, they are tanks, whether you are talking about the M1 or the M60's. So if you are going to dig in a tank, you need to have some kind of equipment.

You have to be smart on your feet. It will be hard on wickets where the ball will keep low. Hopefully, you can get one to fly, and that puts doubts in the batsman's mind.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.