Highways, Twitter boxes, cattle, Cluedo
What connects these fine items? The fact that they all figure in the most quotable quotes of 2010

From endorsing underpants to explaining his search for the Daryll Cullinan of poker, Shane Warne uttered several gems in 2010 • Getty Images
Ashes banter
Glenn McGrath's predict-o-meter seems to be stuck on its 2006 setting
Geoff Miller provides an innuendo-laden take on one of the tallest attacks ever selected for an Ashes tour
The variety of nationalities in the England team does not miss Allan Border's scrutiny
Talk of Shane Warne coming out of retirement to rescue Australia's Ashes campaign leave Richie Benaud indignant that he is not being considered
Michael Clarke's Twitter apology for trying to hide an edge leaves Mark Waugh livid
Scathing sarcasm
Despite scoring a hundred, Harbhajan Singh is not very pleased with the curator of Hyderabad's flat pitch for the Test against New Zealand
Some things in cricket change. Others, like Bishan Singh Bedi's ability to rip into spinners' actions, don't
Jeff Dujon lays it on thick during a particularly excruciating partnership between Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Stuart Broad is positive he will recover from his Ashes injury in time for the World Cup… or for its latter stages at least
The first thing Wasim Akram asked Kamran Akmal when the latter paid him a visit
Geoffrey Boycott takes a dig at the origins of some of England's players while assessing their poor form
Not a very flattering placard marked out for Paul Harris at Newlands. Harris took out Andrew Strauss next ball
Ian Chappell on the merits of the team huddle and what goes on inside it
Startling revelations, candid admissions
Twelve years after getting caned in Sharjah, and giving birth to an enduring urban legend, Shane Warne plays down the effect Tendulkar's assault had on his sleep
Bowlers' reputations do not ruffle Virender Sehwag, but he is wary of Sushil Kumar - India's world champion wrestler - who grew up in the same locality as him
Matthew Hayden, in his autobiography, recounts an exchange between Lalit Modi and Michael Clarke
Simon Katich agrees he's not the most attractive wielder of a bat around
Shane Warne subtly hawks his new underwear range
Jeff Thomson is candid while recounting a face-off with Colin Cowdrey (in whose name the lecture is held) during the 1974 Ashes
Records
Virender Sehwag is ready to stake everything for a replay of Sachin Tendulkar's epochal ODI double-ton
Michael Clarke predicts, correctly, that Muttiah Muralitharan will finish his Test career with 800 wickets
Paul Collingwood, like most others, is surprised that he has more one-day runs than any other England player
The IPL
David Lloyd is clearly not a fan of the circus
Really Mr Modi? Really? That obscure motor sport better get ready: clearly it has never ever handled such a huge following
Andrew Symonds has some advice for the [now former] commissioner
Umpires
That's what Billy Bowden thought, little knowing three no-balls would steal his and Tony Hill's thunder at the fateful England-Pakistan Test at Lord's
Rudi Koertzen gets some advice on his signature "slow death" signal from a television producer
Skills of the non-cricketing kind
Sreesanth flaunts a rare combination of talents
Michael Vaughan is quite impressed by Andrew Flintoff's ability at parallel processing
Shane Warne struggles to find suckers at the poker table
The unlikely couples
Shane Watson assures us he and Simon Katich are unlikely to match the man love of their cuddle-happy predecessors
Chennai Super Kings coach Stephen Fleming thinks Michael Hussey has found his match
Shahid Afridi puts an interesting spin on the mid-pitch altercation between Harbhajan Singh and Shoaib Akhtar during the Asia Cup
Mitchell Johnson on his mid-pitch run-in with Scott Styris
Ball-biting
Shahid Afridi's initial response when asked whether he was trying to bite the ball suggests that he smells with his teeth
Graeme Smith offers reasons why Gnawgate may have happened
Acerbic criticism
Kevin Pietersen becomes the latest addition to the We Don't Rate John Buchanan club
Despite Kevin Pietersen's efforts, Shane Warne remains the most vocal of the Buchanan-bashers
Colin Croft is about as impressed by the Guyana team's full name as he is with their on-field performance
Michael Holding does not rate players who excel only at Twenty20
The deterrent
Harbhajan Singh plans to deal with bookies the way he once dealt with Sreesanth
The Freudian slip
Andrew Strauss was sure proved wrong by Alastair Cook by the end of the year, in Australia
The least-noticed similarity
Shane Warne doesn't have to try hard to come up with a non-controversial trait he shares with Tiger Woods
The confused abbreviation
Kabir Khan, the Afghanistan coach, reveals what happened when he met the country's president Hamid Karzai
The ignored coaching tip
Ian Chappell jokes with Michael Hussey about his match-winning innings in the World Twenty20 semi-final
The semantics-related rant of the year
If it's about the doosra, it's got to be Bishan Singh Bedi
The Tendulkar appreciation society
MS Dhoni may have made his debut 15 years after Tendulkar, but is not sure who'll hang the boots up first
Daniel Vettori is boggled by the number of years Tendulkar has been at the top
And finally …
Sachin Tendulkar names the bowler who troubled him the most, and it's not McGrath, Murali, Warne or Wasim
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo