Marco Jansen

“It's something that I'm very much looking forward to.”

“I'm excited to go and learn and play with the Proteas bowling attack which is one of the best in the world. I just want to go there as a sponge and soak up everything.”

“It's a fast bowler's paradise in a sense. It's like the perfect story and I am very excited”

“It's been a dream of mine since I was very young, specifically to play Test cricket and especially touring Australia, which is a very proud cricketing nation”

“It didn’t feel like I was improving, even though I put in the hard work, bowling five hours a day some days… but even though it doesn’t look like you’re getting the rewards at that point, over time it’s going to pay off”

“Just trying to move forward and put in the hard work, that was the most difficult part for me, to wake up every morning and say ‘ok, I have to do this to improve”

“If I have to show that to the world, that I belong here, I’m going to do that.”

“He (Marco) has done a lot of good things for the Proteas, and I’m starting my journey here (in Namibia), so I still need to show it on this stage but I’m here for a reason and a certain goal, and I’m going to reach that goal”

“It just comes down to performance on the day, but if you look at it on a broader spectrum we can do exactly the same job, even though we’re two different people”

“I know this and my brother knows this, but we’re exactly the same.”

“So for me when I got that call, to be honest I cried a little bit. It means a lot for me and obviously for my family as well”

“To get this call-up means a lot for me personally because it just shows that even though things get tough, you just keep doing your job, go to training and do the hard stuff you don’t want to do, and it can pay off,”