Jan 10, 2004 Tweet | Share

When Zoral Barthley [chief cricket operations officer] passed the team on to me after he spoke to Sir Viv Richards on the phone, it was hand-written and had the name C-Paul, which I interpreted as C Baugh."

Jan 9, 2004 Tweet | Share

In the past we have collapsed well before the last day. At least we are fighting hard and reaching the final day now.

Jan 9, 2004 Tweet | Share

It probably dates back to the '60s and '70s when we scored about one win a decade and then spent the next decade celebrating it.

Jan 8, 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.

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."

Jan 3, 2004 Tweet | Share

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

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.

Jan 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

We wouldn't go into this Test if we didn't think we could win it."

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.

Jan 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

I play my natural game. If the ball is there for hitting then I hit it. That's it, nothing else. I'm not disappointed because the ball was loose and you go for a loose ball. It doesn't matter if I'm out or not."

Jan 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

Ladies and gentlemen, the Sri Lankan captain, Hashan Tillakaratne, has effected a bowling change and has brought on Sri Lanka's exuberant exponent of exaggerated offspin, Muttiah Muralitharan.

Dec 21, 2003 Tweet | Share

We have been on the ropes for three games and the final knockout blow was today. You can only keep taking so many punches, but we could not withstand any more.

Dec 21, 2003 Tweet | Share

Ashley Giles made a simple attempt at a top-edged hook by Mahela Jayawardene look like a Mr Bean Christmas special.

Dec 18, 2003 Tweet | Share

I'm not sure how many people will play cricket once they have experienced the emotion of driving a sled down a luge track.

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.

Dec 18, 2003 Tweet | Share

It's not as if they know what I am bowling, it's almost as if they don't really seem to care what I am bowling.

Dec 16, 2003 Tweet | Share

Twenty years ago that attitude was the norm but I thought world cricket had changed and that teams now tried to win. I was proved wrong at Kandy."

Dec 15, 2003 Tweet | Share

As the assault gathered momentum, still more men were despatched in a vain attempt to stem the flow. Nothing changed. Sourav Ganguly and his threadbare attack died the death of a thousand cuts."

Dec 13, 2003 Tweet | Share

Throw, throw, throw the ball, gently down the seam / Murali, Murali, Murali, Murali, chucks it like a dream / Bowl, bowl, bowl the ball, gently through the air / Murali, Murali, Murali, Murali, here comes Darrell Hair ... No Ball!

Dec 13, 2003 Tweet | Share

We're all fit and well ... well, those of us who are here."

Dec 11, 2003 Tweet | Share

I never believe there is any point looking at the surface ... you only get depressed.

Dec 10, 2003 Tweet | Share

A ****ing cheat, a ****ing chucker"

Dec 10, 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."

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.

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?

Dec 9, 2003 Tweet | Share

His latest weapon, a leg-break delivered with the whiplash arm of a spitting cobra, looks a vaguely suspicious contortion ... but unless the ICC bigwigs decide to take another look at [his] unorthodox action, he is going to add substantially to his haul of 461 Test wickets in the next three weeks.

Dec 7, 2003 Tweet | Share

When a man who has hardly appealed for a year suddenly exercises his vocal chords every few minutes a sore throat should not be too much of a surprise.

Dec 7, 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.

Dec 6, 2003 Tweet | Share

The last series I played here [Sri Lanka] was the toughest of my life ... so for a young offspinner it's going to be even tougher. I'm just glad the lifeguards dragged him in.

Dec 4, 2003 Tweet | Share

I get the impression that when they are on the field, they are thinking about the commerce, and when they are doing their commerce, they are thinking about their game.

Nov 30, 2003 Tweet | Share

The whole tour has ended up being a complete farce. We didn't look at any weather forecast, we just depended on the English board knowing what they were doing. We've spent about £2500 coming out to watch England and it's really hard to take."

Nov 23, 2003 Tweet | Share

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

Nov 19, 2003 Tweet | Share