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Lee must have seen the white ball much more easily as it came out of your dark hand.

Hemang Badani comes out with a fool-proof excuse for Lakshmipathy Balaji after Brett Lee's last-over six

Jan 23, 2004 Tweet | Share

I think he would have got a hundred just hitting along the ground ... the next bloody thing that comes out is that sweep and, Jeez, I hate that shot.

Rodger Waugh, Steve's father, reflects on his son's final Test innings

Jan 6, 2004 Tweet | Share

When you look at the Australian team, they're not the youngest now; some of them are getting a bit long in the tooth. Someone told me that the Australian bowls team is a younger average age than the cricket team."

Heath Streak on the Australian one-day team ahead of the VB Series

Jan 3, 2004 Tweet | Share

I wish he did his politics like his bowling. He would be a lot easier to beat."

Mark Latham, leader of the opposition in Australia, comments on Prime Minister John Howard's offbreaks.

Jan 2, 2004 Tweet | Share

I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate to be bringing up my bent finger as a controversial decision. I hope he'll go nice and easy - caught in the covers or bowled middle stump. I just hope he doesn't get his pads in the way or his bat's wide enough to get a thin edge.

Umpire Billy Bowden is anxious he doesn't become a tragic Waugh story

Jan 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

There is no real sadness. I don't feel it is a sad occasion. I just feel I am lucky.

Steve Waugh prepares to exit the big time

Jan 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

India have now won three of their last four Tests against Australia ... maybe they are simply a better side.

The Daily Telegraph's Robert Craddock reacts to India's sensational win at Adelaide

Dec 18, 2003 Tweet | Share

I love each and every one of you but, like my like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

Australia's coach John Buchanan lets his charges know what he feels after the defeat by India at Adelaide

Dec 18, 2003 Tweet | Share

Australian cricket, or 'Cricket Australia' as they prefer to be known, is doing everything possible to stamp out personality, character and individual thinking from the sport. And it's pathetic to watch. [They] are behaving like anally retentive librarians."

Neil Manthorp attacks Cricket Australia in the light of the decision to reprimand Brad Williams for his breathtaking comment that he bowls with "the wrong arm" (a reference to the numbe rof left-armers in the side)

Dec 10, 2003 Tweet | Share

As far as farewells go, this was like Dame Nellie Melba getting a frog in her throat. Then falling into the orchestra pit.

The Sydney Morning Herald's Trevor Marshallsea on Steve Waugh's bad day at Brisbane

Dec 9, 2003 Tweet | Share

Does the ICC think that Harper is indispensable, or do they have double standards on the reports of the captains? Or is it that the ICC has double standards for Asian and non-Asian umpires?

Sri Lanka's Island newspaper gives its views on umpire Daryl Harper

Dec 9, 2003 Tweet | Share

There's a lot of talk about this Test match and a lot of talk about myself, but the important message is that cricket is bigger than any individual.

Steve Waugh trys to play down the increasing attention on his retirement at the end of the series against India

Dec 6, 2003 Tweet | Share

Daddy, I don't want you to go away any more."

Steve Waugh reveals that a comment from his daughter across the breakfast table prompted his decision to retire

Nov 19, 2003 Tweet | Share

There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

The Times' Simon Barnes anticipates an upturn in anti-English feeling in the Australian media ahead of the rugby World Cup final

Nov 4, 2003 Tweet | Share

I'm a pretty emotional person. I'm basically the opposite of what I'm perceived as on the cricket field. When you drop a player as captain, you become emotional. You don't cry, but you feel like crying.

Steve Waugh spoils his hard man image

Oct 30, 2003 Tweet | Share

Realistically it's a very slim chance. It's like Dumb and Dumber, when the girl says, `You've got a one in a million chance of sleeping with me,' and Jim Carrey says, `So you're saying I've got a chance' ... I live by that."

Michael Slater on his chances of an international recall

Oct 20, 2003 Tweet | Share

Of course, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne would always be in it and so not able to take wickets."

Michael Vaughan welcomes the idea of a sin-bin for Test cricket

Sep 20, 2003 Tweet | Share

He said I had a 'nice-looking ass' and asked me for my number. I gave it to him."

Helen Cohen Alon, a 45-year-old divorced mother of three from Johannesburg, makes allegations of sexual harassment against Shane Warne

Aug 9, 2003 Tweet | Share

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