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I know who you are and I am coming to get you - start running."

Ian Botham leaves a message for the muggers who stole his daughter's mobile phone in Port Elizabeth

Dec 26, 2004 Tweet | Share

I'm certainly not able to function 100%, because I sleep too much.

Stephen Fleming introspects

Dec 25, 2004 Tweet | Share

It was ironic that at about the time the new deal was announced ... the agency, Athletes1, were bandying around a list of 80 or so overseas players ready and waiting to take up county positions.

Michael Atherton flags that there might be some truth in the "emotive crap" Clarke refers to

Dec 24, 2004 Tweet | Share

Emotive crap.

Giles Clarke, the man responsible for the ECB's TV deal, on claims that counties will spend the extra income on salaries for overseas players

Dec 24, 2004 Tweet | Share

There'll always be people in all walks of life who can't afford certain things.

Durham chairman Clive Leach sympathises with those arguing that they wouldn't see cricket as they couldn't pay a BSkyB subscription

Dec 23, 2004 Tweet | Share

If England fire a rifle, I want to fire a cannon. If they fire a peashooter, I want us to be firing a bazooka.

Ray Jennings, South Africa's coach, reveals the way the plans to tackle Steve Harmison

Dec 22, 2004 Tweet | Share

Put it this way, 9994 runs, if you stick a decimal point in the middle of those figures it's the same as Sir Don Bradman's Test average.

Mark Richardson puts things in perspective after missing out on 10,000 first-class runs

Dec 18, 2004 Tweet | Share

If there is a good thing about losing it can be the kick up the arse a team needs when maybe you're getting just a little bit too clever.

Michael Vaughan reflects on England's defeat in a warm-up match

Dec 17, 2004 Tweet | Share

I've made a couple of comments before about that joker and he's not the type of person you should take seriously.

Kevin Mitchell, the Gabba curator, has a go at John Bracewell and his conspiracy theories

Dec 15, 2004 Tweet | Share

I have a Test bowling average that is better than Sir Richard Hadlee's, and a 50-50 record in the end-of-series running race.

Mark Richardson lists his achievements after announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket

Dec 13, 2004 Tweet | Share

I'm gonna turn on the heat, make him or break him ... no soft option.

South Africa's coach Ray Jennings on Jacques Kallis

Dec 12, 2004 Tweet | Share

Obviously when you have other sub-standard teams across the world, then surely Australia will end up being the No. 1 team.

Javed Miandad puts things into perspective

Dec 10, 2004 Tweet | Share

[He asked] why I would want to waste money on an expensive restaurant when you could get perfectly adequate food for a quarter of the price in a cheap restaurant. It was a small example, but it was the moment I knew something had gone very wrong and it disturbed me. I couldn't get the idea out of my head he would rather eat a burger than have a very pleasant meal.

Gary Kirsten explains how Hansie Cronje's eating preferences proved telling

Dec 9, 2004 Tweet | Share

I am quite happy to be leaving and going on to Johannesburg for what is the exciting leg of the winter.

Michael Vaughan bids a fond farewell to Zimbabwe

Dec 9, 2004 Tweet | Share

With the possible exception of Rolf Harris, no other Australian has inflicted more pain and grief on Englishmen since Don Bradman.

The Daily Mirror's Mike Walters reflects on Steve Waugh's retirement

Dec 7, 2004 Tweet | Share

It has been their failure to show the slightest respect for faithful supporters sitting in extreme discomfort in the stands. Just for a day, Dalmiya and his merry men should be made to swap places, toilets and refreshments with those they are supposed to be serving, those who ultimately pay the bills.

Peter Roebuck argues that the Indian board treat ordinary spectators with virtual contempt

Dec 7, 2004 Tweet | Share

Come on, his sleeves are absolutely unique.

A female fan in Kolkata explains how to recognise Sachin Tendulkar

Dec 6, 2004 Tweet | Share

I don't think I will ever live it down if I come second.

Darren Lehmann speaks before his foot race with Mark Richardson ... which Richardson won

Dec 5, 2004 Tweet | Share

The greatest blessing is that there is no third Test against New Zealand, preventing further ridicule and plummeting ticket sales.

The plain-speaking Aussie journalist Malcolm Conn on the one-sided New Zealand series

Dec 4, 2004 Tweet | Share

Nothing bad can happen to us if we're on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.

Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight

Dec 2, 2004 Tweet | Share

Absolute crap. The only thing it shows is India's power at the ICC table.

Former England captain Michael Atherton on the ICC's claim that its decision to overrule Sourav Ganguly's two-match ban shows its "independence"

Dec 1, 2004 Tweet | Share

What a steaming pile of hypocrisy all round. Another piece of horse manure in our time.

The Guardian's Kevin Mitchell on the resolution to the journalists' dispute in Zimbabwe

Nov 30, 2004 Tweet | Share

The leadership of the ECB seems to be inhabiting a separate, hermetically sealed universe ... and their handling of the Zimbabwe issue has produced such a crescendo of blunders and betrayals of principle that only they can fail to appreciate what an unqualified condemnation of their mismanagement it is.

Hugh McIlvanney slams the English board

Nov 29, 2004 Tweet | Share

The South Africans really struggled to understand the principle of the whole thing. They're very competitive and they took it a bit seriously . . . because I lost, it goes down in the record book as an unofficial dead heat.

Mark Richardson recalls his only defeat at the end-of-tour race against Neil McKenzie

Nov 28, 2004 Tweet | Share

We have sympathy with the people here, but the ECB is in business ... our trade is cricket and the revenue part of our trade is international cricket.

As if it wasn't obvious to everyone, ECB chairman David Morgan highlights the board's priorities

Nov 27, 2004 Tweet | Share

Once again, the ICC have shown themselves to be weak, pathetic and useless. They have been tinkering with laws of the game, which have served cricket well for more than 100 years while turning a blind eye to atrocities in one of their own member countries.

Ian Botham comes out firing at cricket's leaders

Nov 26, 2004 Tweet | Share

I've been starting Haydos up that it's like him scoring 500.

On the day he received a $10,000 cheque from his bat sponsor, Glenn McGrath can't resist baiting his team-mates

Nov 25, 2004 Tweet | Share

It looks more suitable for growing carrots.

ICC grounds inspector Andy Atkinson gives his honest opinion about Bermuda's new pitch

Nov 24, 2004 Tweet | Share

We look up to them a lot, but female cricketers should be recognised for themselves, not as the equivalent of Mark Waugh or Steve Waugh or Matthew Hayden or anybody.

Kate Blackwell, one half of Australian cricket's new twins on the block, is not so keen to invite comparisons with her male counterparts

Nov 23, 2004 Tweet | Share

If he'd fielded at slip off his own bowling he'd probably have 130 by now.

Mark Taylor speaks of Shane Warne's slip catching after Warne had snapped up his 99th catch in Test cricket

Nov 22, 2004 Tweet | Share

There has to be a very serious dilemma about representing your country on the cricket field in a land where people are suffering so much at the hands of their government.

Mike Gatting, who led an England rebel tour to South Africa during apartheid, on visiting Zimbabwe

Nov 21, 2004 Tweet | Share

To be heaped with praise over the years and having been named in the best teams in the world and then be called a chucker is an absolute insult.

Former New Zealand wicketkeeper-turned-commentator Ian Smith slams the ICC's finding that by its existing rules, almost all bowlers throw the ball

Nov 20, 2004 Tweet | Share

Of all the team-mates I play with at Victoria, Hampshire and Australia I was disappointed with a few of them. Very disappointed. I worked out who my real friends were.

Shane Warne expresses his dismay over the lack of support he received from some quarters during his 12-month ban for taking a banned substance

Nov 18, 2004 Tweet | Share

I think it might [create confusion]. How does an umpire tell if it's 12 degrees, 10 degrees, nine, 13, 14, whatever it is when it happens like that?"

Shane Warne questions the ICC's proposal to change the definition of a legal delivery

Nov 17, 2004 Tweet | Share

Without a massive amount of pace on this tour we've got to look at other ways to skin the cat, and there's not a lot, to be honest.

New Zealand's captain Stephen Fleming looks forward with trepidation to the first Test against Australia

Nov 17, 2004 Tweet | Share

I'm just so pleased to have been given the chance.

Yorkshire's Nick Thornicroft is excited about his winter prospects. He has just received the call-up... to be a pig farmer

Nov 16, 2004 Tweet | Share

I am not going to be doing victory laps with four-for against that particular New Zealand side."

Stuart MacGill spells out exactly how much regard he has for the New Zealand squad currently in Australia

Nov 16, 2004 Tweet | Share

It's funny what you can do when there's love and care around.

South Africa's new coach Ray Jennings gets all misty-eyed

Nov 14, 2004 Tweet | Share

Thank God for the thriving DVD piracy trade on the subcontinent is about all I can say.

New Zealand's Mark Richardson is less than complimentary about life in Bangladesh

Nov 13, 2004 Tweet | Share

I don't want the guys to be scared of failing. I want them to fail. Life is about failing. It's the way you learn.

Ray Jennings prepares to fail

Nov 12, 2004 Tweet | Share

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Assault on Jesse Ryder

"It sounds quite sinister to me. I mean the fact that there would be four guys attacking him, [from] the media reports I saw looked somewhat unprovoked, and there must be something behind that. The assault seems very vicious so obviously we wish him a speedy recovery, and I'm sure the police will be working to get to the bottom of it."
New Zealand prime minister, John Key

"We don't need security. This is a nice suburb. We run security, we run doormen on the weekend, purely to make sure we have no intoxicated [people] and no underagers at the venue. It's not about having bouncers on the door. We have doormen that meet and greet and say farewell to the guests … the bar runs very well, we have got nice clientele, and we don't need security early in the week."
Steve Holmes, general manager at Aikman's bar, where the incident occurred

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