"This is my sixth year participating in Kwibuka and I have gone from strength to strength with every edition. The Elite League is an opportunity to sell myself out there and to improve and to play among other experienced players"

"Be grateful for this opportunity you have and learn from the experience as much as possible. Being in the national team is not going to be easy but we are here to help the"

"One thing I tell them is that for them to make it to the national team means they have a lot of potential. Nothing happens in an instance so you have to take everything step by step"

"For me, there is not much but just to enjoy ourselves, defend our title and bring the cup back home. Considering we are the defending champions, the pressure is definitely there. However, we have been working hard on our mental aspects and have been taught how to handle different situations so I believe we are mentally ready"

"It's just a little bit of a confidence thing but in this format you've got to take it on and we're learning that as we go and hopefully it's a bit of a kick starter for us today."

"We've enjoyed one another's company (and) the girls' effort at training and around preparation for matches tactically, has been spot on."

"We've been playing some pretty good cricket and I cannot fault anyone in the group, the energy and the positivity has been there the whole time."

"It's been a while since I've bowled and it's nice to contribute to the team as much as I can – it just went my way today, probably beginner's luck in a way"

"Initially, when tennis was developing as a sport, there were comparisons made between the serve rates of different players. Now it has reached a point where Serena Williams is appreciated just as Roger Federer is in his own right. It’s time for cricket to also reach that place."

"It’s just a different game. You don’t have to put us in the same category."

"I don’t like the comparison between men’s cricket and women’s cricket"

"The efforts of those who played before us, and all of us put together as a community, have now made this possible. Imagine those ex-women cricketers, who even without getting much 30 or 40 years ago, continued to play. They made our present reality possible"

"I am not the type of player that will go to the captain and say ‘I want to bowl’. I’ll let them make their decisions."

"But as a bowling unit, we do have a great unit. We do have people who can step in."

"I think everyone that comes and goes within the team, the team will always miss the impact that player had. It is always like that. We have all the memories with them, and it is something we will miss in the change-room"

"It is very new to me, but I am keen to learn and do everything that I can to do well in the position. I am lucky that I have a couple of senior players within the squad around me as well, who would be able to help me and guide me if I do need help along the way"

"What I can bring to the role is the experience that I have in the side. I've been playing international cricket since I was 16 years old, I know quite a lot of players in the circuit and I've been playing in the leagues as well, so I've played a lot of cricket in recent years and hopefully, I'm able to use that experience and the knowledge to my advantage when I captain the team."

"I'm very excited to be able to contribute in another way, too, and not just in batting. It still feels surreal at the moment, but it will all become more real when I meet up with the team in Pakistan."

"It's something that I have always aspired to do, having played in this team for a couple of years. Having more of a leadership role is something I’ve wanted to take on. It'll help me as a cricketer and learning to think as a captain on the field will hopefully help my batting as well."

"It's a massive honour to be offered this position as captain for the next two tours,"

"But it seems like I'm just working hard and focusing on the right things and work. So I'm really happy."

"Coming back to world No. 1, it's a dream come true for sure. I would say I wasn't expecting that right now this season. I was kind of hoping that maybe next year is going to be my year."

"The conditions here were kind of tricky - it helped me to just focus on my footwork, my shots, and that just kept me busy from thinking about all of that"

"I learned my lesson and this time I didn't want [the No.1 ranking] to have an impact on me."

"I just didn't feel at the end like I'm in the shadow anymore because I knew that I'm having another great season. And honestly, I kind of accepted that I'm not going to have a season like that, like in 2022, and I just looked forward."

"2022 was so amazing that I don't know if it's going to be possible for me to repeat a season like that."

"Against Aryna it's never easy. I'm just going to do my best and focus on myself and what I want to do on court. We usually have these matches that are really exciting and really tough, both mentally and physically."

"But obviously, in the wind, it's tough to be as aggressive as you want, because the bounces are weird and the ball was moving. So I'm glad I made that adjustment and didn't get too frustrated when I missed. You pay the price for hopefully a good reward."

"I felt like I needed to hit through the court"

"I think I don't know the level of play, so I have to ease in for it, so I have to set myself up for a very good end of year."

"I think it's because I don't know how the beginning of the year is going to go for me."

"I don’t think I can predict what I’ll do - I never am able to do that - but it definitely made me appreciate a lot of things that I took for granted."

"I was just thinking when I was watching Serena and Venus (Williams), I was thinking, ‘I probably, no way, will ever play at their age.’ But sitting here, I’m like, ‘No, you know what? I might do that."

"I feel a lot of joy coming back here. It’s kind of like seeing an old friend I haven’t seen in a long time."

"For me coming back here, it means a lot. This room, in particular. There were some tears shed. A lot"

"Well, I can’t really shop everywhere because everything isn’t tall-girl friendly."

"You can be cute and go out there and still ball. So I’m trying to change the stereotype that women in sports can’t be girly and have fashion off the court."

"It’s knowing that I have a voice and I am speaking for people that don’t have the platform that I do."

"I have a voice and I’m not going to stop using my voice for the people that know that I am making an impact."

"And I learned to ignore by looking at all the people that are inspired by me. I don’t really pay attention to haters because they’re going to say what they want to say"

"If you don’t have no haters, you ain’t popping."

"All year, I was critiqued about who I was. I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you."

"Sprinting is my life as well as my career. It’s what I breathe, eat and sleep."

"Every year, things just get harder and you have to train to win, to be the best."

"Sometimes I don’t think people realize that athletes are human, too. Yes, we’re paid to be ready to race, but we’re still human."

"And I want to make it perfectly clear that I’ll never run away from a race. I’m always willing to race. The training can be difficult, especially to know that it’s okay to rest. But I’m a competitor and I want to race anybody, anytime, anywhere."

"You have to bring your best, because that brings out the best in everyone."

"But once we get on the track, it’s business. It’s my career; this is what I do, what I love. And it’s my job."

"So much talk was, “Women can’t break records.” That was so annoying; to hear over and over what women couldn’t do. Then to go out and break the record — not just break it, but absolutely demolish it. It felt really good on a woman’s side, to show that women could break records."