'Sachin Tendulkar would do well as Doctor Strange'

"I literally stayed up until 1.30 in the morning to watch him cry live on TV. What a pleasure that was."
Former England keeper Matt Prior is not a fan of David Warner, as he revealed while talking about Warner's Sandpapergate press conference

"He can be 80, in a wheelchair, and he would still play for my team."
AB de Villiers thinks India should not drop MS Dhoni just yet

"The best ball I've bowled, I've wasted it on Chris Martin - no offence Chris!"
Nathan Lyon remembers the beauty he bowled to the Phantom at the Gabba in 2011-12

"Jimmy Anderson, you give him a coconut, he'll swing it."
Commentator Michael Holding is impressed by James Anderson's skills

"He's been carrying this around for the last two years. It's probably gone off by now."
Dale Steyn jokes about how Shaun Pollock had to wait to gift him a bottle of champagne for going past Pollock's South Africa Test record of most wickets

"As I was removing my shirt, VVS [Laxman] tried to tell me, "Don't do it!" After I removed my shirt, Harbhajan [Singh] asked, 'What do I do now?' I said, 'You also remove your shirt.'"
Sourav Ganguly recalls the time he famously took off his shirt and waved it about on the Lord's balcony in 2002

"I know the dimensions of his arse from seeing it in close range, wicketkeeping behind him for hour after hour after hour."
Adam Gilchrist is familiar with a certain part of Sachin Tendulkar's anatomy

"He is orthodox in an unorthodox way."
Ramiz Raja has his own way of describing Fakhar Zaman

"The Aussie way is to look a bloke in the eye, look your sister or you mum in the eyes, and tell them the truth and be happy to get some truth back, so that's elite honesty."
Justin Langer explains a concept too subtle for the rest of us to grasp

"Freddie Flintoff said he wanted to bowl 75 overs in a Test match here [at Lord's] not because he was trying to take wickets [but] because he was trying to burn off all the calories he ate over the time he spent here."
Andrew Whillas, the operations manager at the Lord's Players Dining Room, names a famous fan of the tasty meals on offer

"You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers."
Dale Steyn sums up his illustrious team-mate

"Sachin Tendulkar would do quite well in fitting the role as Doctor Strange, as he is quite extraordinary."
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch has a superhero role in mind for the former Indian batsman

"There's a bit of Sachin there, there's a bit of Viru there, and when he walks, there's a bit of Lara there!" India coach Ravi Shastri big-ups teen batsman Prithvi Shaw

"Faf is being held together by... I was going to say by sticky tape, but that's probably not the right thing."
South Africa coach Ottis Gibson has a dig at Australia's ball-tampering weapon of choice

"Monty didn't understand what the coaches said. I didn't listen to them. That's why we won games for England."
Graeme Swann on how England's coaches don't get spin bowling

"When it comes to Dhoni, I am studying in the university in which he is the topper."
Dinesh Karthik finds a convoluted way to be humble when compared to MS Dhoni as a finisher

"You'll not be able to predict my next move. All players you think are going to open will play in the middle order and all the middle-order batsmen will open."
Kings XI's R Ashwin is going to captain like no one has ever before

"You've gone a long way from not being able to hit it off the square for the Under-12s."
Ravi Bopara gives his England and Essex team-mate Alastair Cook a cheeky send-off before his final Test

"Before going to bat, praying is the best way to prepare."
Sri Lanka batsman Roshen Silva on how to approach playing on a turning track like the one in Mirpur

"Are you going to bowl or should we change the bowler?"
Stand-in captain MS Dhoni overheard on the stump mic after bowler Kuldeep Yadav took too long to set his field

"Luckily our phones get taken away, otherwise I would have been looking for an Uber to go back to the hotel."
South Africa's batting coach Dale Benkenstein on what he was thinking when his team were 12 for 3 against India on day one in Cape Town