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"Where are the one-day cricketers? Where is Dimi Mascarenhas?"
As England approach the fourth ODI against India, 0-3 down, Ian Botham gives the selectors both barrels
Nov 22, 2008
"Each time something was said to me, I would smile back at them. They were aggressive and it was an intense Test match. I had to keep my focus."
India's debutant, M Vijay, took on the Australians in Nagpur and survived to tell the tale
Nov 22, 2008
"The one thing I would say is that the lads were up for the challenge."
Peter Moores takes the positives from England's defeat in the third ODI - well, the margins are getting closer
Nov 21, 2008
"One thing that I do find unattractive is when people who are making money out of the game criticise those of us who are volunteers."
ECB chairman Giles Clarke has a swipe at his critics
Nov 21, 2008
"Pietersen's weakness is that he does not consider spin to be a legitimate part of the game."
Michael Atherton on the rather blinkered view of the England captain
Nov 21, 2008
"The terrorists will never target cricketers, knowing that they will then lose the battle of hearts and minds of the people. Cricketers are safe in Pakistan."
Former Pakistan captain turned politician, Imran Khan, says there is no security threat to cricketers in his country
Nov 21, 2008
"One of the things I love the most about India, is that you walk around the back of the hotel, and there's a man who's selling peanuts on the street for one cent a month, and he holds his head so high, and is so proud, as if he was making $2 million a month."
Matthew Hayden explains his 'Third World' remarks about India
Nov 21, 2008
"Four hundred and fifty, the way Yuvraj is batting in this series!"
Kevin Pietersen works out a defendable total ahead of the third ODI against India in Kanpur
Nov 20, 2008
"In the long term he could have as much an effect on Glamorgan cricket as Viv Richards."
Glamorgan manager Matthew Maynard expects many gains from having Herschelle Gibbs as an overseas player
Nov 20, 2008
"I think my little boy, Brayden, would have a chance of hitting a six out there next year and he's only eight weeks old."
Graham Wagg surely doesn't think too much about the size of the boundaries at Kowloon Cricket Club, which hosts the Hong Kong Sixes
Nov 20, 2008
"Sachin and Sehwag are also spectacular, but when in full flow Yuvraj really stands out."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni praises Yuvraj Singh
Nov 19, 2008
"We have problems with being too fast and have to slow ourselves down."
While Australia figures a way out of the slow over-rate mess, New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has easier problems to solve
Nov 19, 2008
"If the Pakistan team thinks it is short on match practice, then it can play a series of matches against Lahore Badshahs."
Inzamam-ul-Haq offers an option for a cricket-starved Pakistan side
Nov 19, 2008
"I'd have probably been fined my whole match fee if my Dad had been the ref."
Stuart Broad is rather chuffed that his dad, Chris, isn't the match referee after he was let off with a warning
Nov 18, 2008
"We're paid in dollars, not in schooners."
Banning alcohol sponsorship would do more harm than good, Cricket Australia spokesperson Peter Young says
Nov 18, 2008
"The whole environment has changed and I can't see these guys would come anywhere near close to drinking what my era consumed."
You are unlikely to find anyone in the current Australian team with beer bellies, Mike Whitney suggests
Nov 18, 2008
"When we came into the dressing room there would be two or three Eskies of beer - cold and waiting for you there. Sponsor's product. Happy days."
Mike Whitney recollects the good ol' days
Nov 18, 2008
"Season after season, cricket fans turn on their radios and television sets and settle in for another summer of humiliation."
The Dominion Post on the masochism of New Zealand's cricket fans as they prepare to take on Australia
Nov 18, 2008
"I really did think it was a wind-up. It's the kind of thing that Freddie Flintoff would do."
Lancashire's former head groundsman, Peter Marron, on being invited to swap Manchester for Miami and grow the world's first lawn on a cruise ship
Nov 18, 2008
"I'm going to take Yuvraj out in the hotel tonight and make sure he doesn't come to Kanpur for the next game"
Kevin Pietersen has had enough of Yuvraj Singh
Nov 18, 2008
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