Dec 21, 2005

"I am heartbroken ... this is like an attempt to end my career."

Shabbir Ahmed reacts to being handed a one-year ban by the ICC following his action being reported for a second time

Dec 19, 2005

"People have a pop at the ICC. We don't mind that as long as its constructive."

ICC president Ehsan Mani reacts to recent criticism over Zimbabwe, sledging, supersubs, Powerplays ...

Dec 18, 2005

"Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding."

Mike Atherton reviews 2005 and mentions Ray Jennings' less-than-standard method of coaching

Dec 17, 2005

"Every demagogue in town has vented his spleen. Every Tom, Dick and Soumitra has voiced an opinion."

Peter Roebuck on the hysterical reaction accompanying Sourav Ganguly's exclusion

Dec 14, 2005

"He said I looked like Tarzan, and wondered how I could bowl fast looking like that."

Shoaib Akhtar reveals how Andrew Flintoff inadvertently boosted his will to win

Dec 13, 2005

"We left Downing Street and there was a lot of photographers. He said: 'What do they want?' So I looked at him and said: 'A photo, you knob!'"

Matthew Hoggard jokes on They Think It's All Over about what he said during a spot of post-Ashes hobnobbing with Tony Blair at Downing Street

Dec 11, 2005

"I hope it will be quick - that will turn me on. I enjoy pace."

AB de Villiers hopes for a pacy pitch for the first Test at Perth

Dec 10, 2005

"They might need one by the time we've finished with them."

Shane Warne approves of South Africa's plans to fly a psychologist from Johannesburg to motivate the players before the first Test at Perth

Dec 09, 2005

"I am against the ICC. The reason is it's run by all the goras [whites]."

Wasim Akram makes a comment that would get others in deep trouble. It also ignores the way the ICC is made up. Aside from that, nothing controversial

Dec 08, 2005

"Life without sport is like life without underpants."

Life according to Billy "Y-front" Bowden