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"He walked up the wicket and said `I was thinking about doing that in bed last night', so the visualisation was there."
An astonished Paul Collingwood reveals what Kevin Pietersen said about his two outstanding switch-hit sixes at Chester-le-Street
Jun 15, 2008
"How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me."
Shoaib Akhtar, the last of Pakistan's gems, foretells a grim future
Jun 14, 2008
"That would have been the catch of the millennium."
Ramiz Raja gets a touch carried away while describing a drop by Yusuf Pathan in the Kitply Cup final
Jun 14, 2008
"I'd buy Luton Town Football Club if I won the money."
Monty Panesar reveals what he would splash his $1m on if England won their Twenty20 match against Allen Stanford's All Stars XI in November. Luton finished their season at the bottom of League One.
Jun 14, 2008
"It's nice to play in front of a crowd who aren't suggesting you do things with sheep like they did in New Zealand."
Graeme Swann at Old Trafford looking back with fondness on England's tour of New Zealand
Jun 13, 2008
"The Dolar is really dipping"
Shamim Chaudhury's comment on Bangladesh medium-pacer Dolar Mahmud appears straight out of the stock markets
Jun 12, 2008
"Come on, give me a hug too ... I'm in Canterbury ... I love you."
Sky Sports' David Lloyd with an appeal to billionaire Allen Stanford on the day the US$100 million Stanford 20-20 in 20 was announced
Jun 11, 2008
"I find it boring ... but I'm not a purist."
The rather rich Allen Stanford admits that he is not a fan of Test cricket
Jun 11, 2008
"When I finish playing I will look back on my hundreds in Test and first-class cricket with a lot more pride than runs I scored in Twenty20."
Kent and England batsman Robert Key shows that for some the lure of money is not the be all and end all
Jun 11, 2008
"There isn't a player I haven't dismissed, from Brian Lara to Sachin Tendulkar. And if you're talking about the last series against South Africa, I'll give you CDs and you can watch them. Then you'll know if I bowled or not against South Africa."
Shoaib Malik's reply when asked if he only bowls against weaker teams
Jun 10, 2008
"I'm going to play and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me."
Lancashire and the ICL's Stuart Law with a clear message to Lalit Modi and the IPL regarding suggestions that no ICL players will be allowed to take part in the proposed Twenty20 Champions League
Jun 10, 2008
"Any ICL player playing for any team categorically disqualifies that team from participating in the Champions League. No exceptions will be made under any circumstances."
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi with a clear message that he is no mood to forgive and forget as far as the ICL is concerned
Jun 9, 2008
"Once the ball gets past me it takes me slightly longer than the Queen Mary to turn around, so that's not a good thing for a professional athlete."
Stuart MacGill acknowledges his dodgy knee made Test cricket difficult in recent months
Jun 7, 2008
"If we could stop people smoking weed we would have triple the amount of players available. If you can't give up marijuana to play for your country and reach the pinnacle of your sport then you have a serious, serious problem."
Bermuda's allrounder Lionel Cann admits to problems facing the national selectors
Jun 7, 2008
"I was very lucky to play under a couple of very good captains in Australia. I played under some average ones, as well. You can make your own mind up which one's which."
Shane Warne was not always a fan of his superiors
Jun 6, 2008
"He would be better now to move on, do some more wine shows and things like that and pass a few bottles of red around to us."
Terry Jenner isn't terribly excited to have Stuart MacGill continuing for New South Wales
Jun 6, 2008
"Gentlemen, don't believe all what you read in the media."
Geoff Lawson has a message, ironically for the media themselves
Jun 5, 2008
"I didn't want to lose my membership for going against the spirit of cricket."
Dipal Patel, MCC member, and the inventor of New Zealand's new "micro-shine" trousers, feared for his place in the pavilion
Jun 5, 2008
"I'll probably go to Starbucks and waste a few hours."
Ian Blackwell reveals how he plans to spend the day after Somerset's quarter-final against Kent is washed out
Jun 4, 2008
"I do believe that to the ordinary people of our country, games like hockey and football have [more] significance than the world of cricket."
Is cricket India's national obsession? Not to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, it isn't
"I think their minds were already on the plane home. I am just not sure they were here to play today."
Jamie Siddons on Bangladesh's performance in the last league match of the Asia Cup
Jul 4, 2008
"The ICC should just write out a cheque for $10m to Mugabe."
A disgruntled but unnamed cricket administrator in Dubai as quoted in the Australian
Jul 4, 2008
"Zimbabwe has agreed not to participate [in the ICC World Twenty20] in the wider interest of cricket ... we voluntarily agreed to back out ... we don't want to gatecrash where we are not welcome."
If Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka hopes that if you say something enough then people might start to believe it
Jul 4, 2008
"He's just got to calm himself down and get into a relaxed mode - maybe he should read a good book."
Graham Thorpe gives Mark Ramprakash some tips as the search for his 100th first-class hundred starts to become a frustration
Jul 4, 2008
"I was drinking my cup of tea and spat it out. We were watching live and then all ran into the dressing-room to watch it on the telly because we were not actually sure we'd just seen that."
Stuart Broad on the the reaction to Kevin Pietersen's switch-hit
Jul 3, 2008
"You could go and work for the BBC or ITV ... and the way you're going you might well do."
Alec Stewart responds to a question from Sky TV's Charles Colville over the possibility he might move from Surrey to Sussex
Jul 1, 2008
"'You were a good 'un.' Simple. I don't think there's much more to say. The records speak for themselves."
Darren Gough sums up the career of ... Darren Gough
Jun 29, 2008
"I've got a wife and child now and don't have much time to worry about toilet seats and taping bats to the ceiling."
South Africa's Neil McKenzie says he has got over his obsessive superstitions these days
Jun 29, 2008
"This is the first time all the policemen are sitting comfortably and watching the match. You can say we are playing for them, and it is good for them."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni on the policemen in the stands outnumbering the crowds at non India-Pakistan games so far in the Asia Cup
Jun 28, 2008
"Our gameplan is to win every game we play."
Australia's Baldrick, Michael Clarke, reveals their cunning plan
Jun 28, 2008
"Me and Huss felt disgraceful out there together. We were out there laughing at each other."
Michael Clarke on his sluggish 100-run stand with Michael Hussey in Grenada on what he described as probably the worst pitch he'd played on
Jun 27, 2008
"I don't know his first name."
Darren Gough admits he isn't quite up to speed on debutant Azeem Rafiq's first name
Jun 27, 2008
"If we do everything we said in our team meeting, I'll be smoking a cigar at mid-off."
Twenty-four hours before his first match as captain, Kevin Pietersen is already settled into the role
Jun 27, 2008
"I'll pick six spinners and tell them to get through the overs as quickly as possible"
England captain Paul Collingwood after being banned for four ODIs because of his side's slow over-rate
Jun 26, 2008
"Some people call me the Sikh of Tweak. Some call me Wonky Panesar."
Monty "Wonky" Panesar reveals the nicknames his fans have given him
Jun 26, 2008
"Peter Chingoka [the Zimbabwe Cricket chairman] is part of Mugabe's despicable plan and the fact that he is allowed to prance around the ICC committee is embarrassing for the ICC."
Former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower calls on the ICC to ban Zimbabwe
Jun 25, 2008
"They weren't so much dives; it rather looked like he was falling off a bar stool."
On BBC's Test Match Special, Angus Fraser comments unsympathetically yet rather accurately on Owais Shah's outfielding
Jun 25, 2008
"Zimbabwe's cricketing infrastructure appears far too damaged. Their twin pillars of school and club cricket have all but been destroyed. A talent base of players and administrators has left the country. Those that remain have little desire to be involved, change of government or not."
Former England and Glamorgan batsman Steve James hits out at Zimbabwe's cricket administration
Jun 24, 2008
"I think it's great ... but they're going to have to manage the changerooms pretty well!"
Graeme Smith foresees a logistical problem ahead of next year's joint World Twenty20 championships for men and women
Jun 24, 2008
"We would also have serious concerns about Zimbabwe participating in the Twenty20 World Cup."
A spokesman for the prime minister, Gordon Brown, states the government's stance on Zimbabwe
Jun 24, 2008
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