That's what I do to her when she falls, so she believes that a kiss can heal every wound.
Cheteshwar Pujara on his daughter's reaction to watching him repeatedly take blows to his body in Brisbane
Comfortable? I didn't even see the first ball!
India fast bowler T Natarajan exclaims when team-mate R Ashwin jokes that he looked the most comfortable of all the Indian batsmen against Mitchell Starc
I am just glad for his sake that Tim Paine isn't Pakistani or else people would have said so many things about him, just as they did about me.
Former Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal sympathises with Australia keeper Tim Paine, who is under fire for dropping catches in Sydney against India
If you rang us up and said it's in Mumbai tomorrow, we'd get on a plane and play it.
Australia captain Tim Paine says his team isn't fussed if the final Test of the series against India is moved out of Brisbane because of the visitors' wishes
About the 12th injection on the day, I started screaming and squealing a bit and biting on the towel.
New Zealand fast bowler Neil Wagner on the pain of bowling with two broken toes in the Mount Maunganui Test against Pakistan
Thank goodness otherwise it would be [batting coach] Grant Flower at three and me at No. 4 in the next Test match.
Sri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur is relieved his side have a 21-man squad to choose from after they were hit by multiple injuries during the Centurion Test
Unless they carry me off on a stretcher, I'm going to try and do everything I can.
You can't order Neil Wagner off the field even when he has two broken toes
He just laughs all the time. I don't know what's so funny - must be my batting.
Australia opener Matthew Wade on Rishabh Pant behind the stumps
If India are feeling any stress, I am glad they are and not us over the Christmas weekend.
Australia coach Justin Langer empathises with the Indian team being 0-1 down and missing some of their key players ahead of the second Test in Melbourne
I'm not Chris Gayle yet. I can't quite pull that [sunglasses] off. I need to hit a few bombs first.
In Napier, when the sun interrupted the New Zealand-Pakistan T20I, middle-order batsman Glenn Phillips wasn't certain he could bat with sunglasses like Gayle does
I wouldn't give him any advice as I am playing against him. I'm hoping that he makes no runs at all.
Australia opener Joe Burns when asked if he had any advice for his India counterpart Prithvi Shaw
Yeah, 'Ricky Ponting tries to defend Cricket Australia again and his mate Tim Paine'.
Journalist Peter Lalor, commentating on the Adelaide Test, predicts the headlines after Ricky Ponting calls his criticism of Tim Paine's decision to not review an appeal "harsh"
I will send AB [de Villiers] a text tonight and see what he thinks of it.
Virat Kohli seeks the approval of his Royal Challengers Bangalore team-mate after playing a scoop in the T20I in Sydney
Yeah, he cost me a hundred. He ran me out, didn't he?
Keeper-batsman Matthew Wade jokingly blames his batting partner Steven Smith after walking off when he thought Virat Kohli had caught him, only to be subsequently run out
The lads were checking their Euromillions numbers.
England wicketkeeper Joss Buttler makes light of the codes being flashed from the dressing room by team analyst Nathan Leamon to players on the field
My little boy always says to me, when Virat comes out to bat, just wake me up.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan's son is a fan of Virat Kohli's batting
If the administrators aren't smart enough to change it, then my attitude always was, 'Well, I'll take the law into my own hands'.
Former Australia captain and commentator Ian Chappell believes fielding teams should retaliate to the switch hit by not informing the umpire which side of the wicket they will bowl from
Maybe we should look in the Pandya family only. There is one sitting at home.
If India need another allrounder in ODIs, Hardik Pandya has a suggestion: his brother Krunal
I've done a bit of shadow batting. I've copped a few messages last night saying stop tapping the bat down.
Steven Smith's hotel-room neighbours aren't fans of his shadow-batting obsession
Please bowl slow to me next time.
Shahid Afridi responds to Lahore Qalandars fast bowler Haris Rauf, who bowled him with a yorker in the PSL Eliminator in Karachi
Maybe they thought I am retiring, you know. I retired from international cricket, so they might be thinking I am retiring from IPL as well.
MS Dhoni on why he thinks opposition players have been requesting signed jerseys from him during the 2020 IPL
I don't really see myself as a cricketer. I see myself as quite a cultured person.
Australian legspinner Adam Zampa is above the barbarism of the rest of the cricketing world
That's normal for me, being in New Zealand. We don't get anyone to come for domestic cricket! So I'll be able to share some tips on playing in front of ten people.
No crowds because of the Covid-19 pandemic? No problem for Mitchell McClenaghan, who knows what it's like to play in empty stadiums
Look, son, you may have a chance of making it at cricket, but you are an absolute donkey at football."
Former England fast bowler Ryan Sidebottom on the advice he got from his father Arnie, who played both cricket and football professionally
What happens sometimes is Australians' messages in English get lost in translation and reach us with a different meaning. Even some of their jokes become new.
Delhi Capitals' R Ashwin says that while he's had a phone conversation with his coach Ricky Ponting about running out non-strikers who are backing up, he'll prefer to have another face to face because of tricky accents
I remember standing in slips in between bowling about 4000 overs and getting hammered around the ground. I discussed my favourite movies with Adam Gilchrist, we swapped hats, and tried everything to try and not think about it. I think we were delirious.
Shane Warne remembers bowling to Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman during their 376-run stand as India followed on in Kolkata, 2001
He is off the Christmas card and present list.
Stuart Broad cuts off his father, Chris, who, as match referee, fined him for a send-off during the first Test between England and Pakistan, at Old Trafford
I always equate my marks with their [my children's] marks. They do much better than me but my wife expects them to equate them with her marks, which are pretty high.
Rahul Dravid claims to be a chill dad when it comes to academics (and also sports)
Looking back, if I hit the ball back along the ground [at nets] to Andre Adams of Kyle Mills or someone like that when I started playing, I reckon they may have come down and actually strangled me.
Jimmy Neesham reacts to the new pandemic-normal of not touching the ball and instead batting it back to the bowler during nets
I haven't watched it ball-by-ball. I know what happened, don't worry.
New Zealand coach Gary Stead isn't going to easily forget the 2019 World Cup final, which his team lost to England on boundary count following a tied Super Over
Some days, you walk past him and stood at the non-striker's end, and he was already on TV and he would be forced to be at the striker's end.
Sourav Ganguly on the rare occasions he was able to "trick" his ODI opening partner Sachin Tendulkar into taking first strike
When I played against Sourav [Ganguly], I hated him. He used to make me wait for the toss every single time and I'll be like, "Ganguly, it's 10.30, we have to toss".
Former England captain Nasser Hussain on Sourav Ganguly's sagas with punctuality
It feels a bit like a sci-fi movie.
England bowler Mark Wood on getting used to living, training and playing in a biosecure bubble ahead of the first post-pandemic Test, against West Indies in Southampton
I've heard batsmen complaining, "the ball is swinging". But the ball is supposed to swing! We're not here to give only throwdowns.
Jasprit Bumrah laments the lot of bowlers in cricket
Maybe handshakes will be replaced by a namaste.
Ajinkya Rahane wonders what post-pandemic cricket celebrations will look like
I have been in lockdown when it comes to my profession for the last six and a half years.
Sreesanth feels the coronavirus-related restrictions across the world aren't too different from the fixing ban imposed on him in 2013
They want us to ask Nathan Lyon what colour socks he's wearing, in the middle of this s--- storm?
Ian Gould reveals sandpaper wasn't the only thing the umpires were checking for during the infamous Cape Town Test
I played in 2008 with [Mark] Boucher, [Jacques] Kallis and [Dale] Steyn. I'd clear my legs and hit it over cover and they would tell me to go and fetch the ball myself! That's when I said I'm not playing this game.
Virat Kohli tells Kevin Pietersen why he won't join him for a round of golf
He loves cricket that much that he watches every replay up on the screen. And if blokes aren't watching me when I'm trying to move the field, they cop a bit of a spray.
Australia's limited-overs captain, Aaron Finch, on why Marnus Labuschagne earns his wrath on the field
All these burgers, pizzas, fried chicken and fizzy drinks have ruined our immune system and then any virus can attack us and we can't take it.
Two weeks after controversially blaming food choices in China for the spread of coronavirus, now Shoaib Akhtar says it's the world's poor dietary habits that are fault