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"We have been on the ropes for three games and the final knockout blow was today. You can only keep taking so many punches, but we could not withstand any more."
England captain Michael Vaughan after being counted out in Colombo
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Sri Lankan captain, Hashan Tillakaratne, has effected a bowling change and has brought on Sri Lanka's exuberant exponent of exaggerated offspin, Muttiah Muralitharan."
The stadium announcer at the SSC comes over all lyrical as Sri Lanka close in on a record victory against England
"Ashley Giles made a simple attempt at a top-edged hook by Mahela Jayawardene look like a Mr Bean Christmas special."
Peter Hayter despairs of England's fielding in Colombo in the Mail on Sunday
"I love each and every one of you but, like my like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger."
Australia's coach John Buchanan lets his charges know what he feels after the defeat by India at Adelaide
"I'm not sure how many people will play cricket once they have experienced the emotion of driving a sled down a luge track."
Shiva Keshavan, luge athlete and India's only representative in the last two Winter Olympics, on a threat to the national game
"Twenty years ago that attitude was the norm but I thought world cricket had changed and that teams now tried to win. I was proved wrong at Kandy."
Sri Lanka's coach John Dyson criticises England's go-slow on the final day of the second Test
"It's not as if they know what I am bowling, it's almost as if they don't really seem to care what I am bowling."
Stuart MacGill's self-esteem takes a beating after the Adelaide Test
"We know, and they know, that we can beat them."
Sourav Ganguly is justifiably cocky after beating Australia
"India have now won three of their last four Tests against Australia ... maybe they are simply a better side."
The Daily Telegraph's Robert Craddock reacts to India's sensational win at Adelaide
"Throw, throw, throw the ball, gently down the seamMurali, Murali, Murali, Murali, chucks it like a dreamBowl, bowl, bowl the ball, gently through the air Murali, Murali, Murali, Murali, here comes Darrell Hair ... No Ball!"
The Barmy Army serenade Muttiah Muralitharan to the tune of Row Row Row The Boat, Gently Down The Stream
"Australian cricket, or 'Cricket Australia' as they prefer to be known, is doing everything possible to stamp out personality, character and individual thinking from the sport. And it's pathetic to watch. [They] are behaving like anally retentive librarians."
Neil Manthorp attacks Cricket Australia in the light of the decision to reprimand Brad Williams for his breathtaking comment that he bowls with "the wrong arm"
"Not too many of us tell tales out of school."
Graham Thorpe on Muttiah Muralitharan's decision to report comments allegedly made to him by Nasser Hussain during the Kandy Test
"As the assault gathered momentum, still more men were despatched in a vain attempt to stem the flow. Nothing changed. Sourav Ganguly and his threadbare attack died the death of a thousand cuts."
Peter Roebuck watches India taken apart on the first day of the Adelaide Test
"A ****ing cheat, a ****ing chucker"
Nasser Hussain's alleged welcome to Muttiah Muralitharan as he came out to bat at Kandy. Muralitharan reported the incident to the match referee, but no action was taken
"We're all fit and well ... well, those of us who are here."
Brian Lara after injuries forced three players to return home ahead of the first Test against South Africa
"I never believe there is any point looking at the surface ... you only get depressed."
Stuart MacGill reveals his inner self-doubt
"Does the ICC think that Harper is indispensable, or do they have double standards on the reports of the captains? Or is it that the ICC has double standards for Asian and non-Asian umpires?"
Sri Lanka's Island newspaper gives its views on umpire Daryl Harper
"When a man who has hardly appealed for a year suddenly exercises his vocal chords every few minutes a sore throat should not be too much of a surprise."
The Guardian's David Hopps on Ashley Giles's illness
"As far as farewells go, this was like Dame Nellie Melba getting a frog in her throat. Then falling into the orchestra pit."
The Sydney Morning Herald's Trevor Marshallsea on Steve Waugh's bad day at Brisbane
"His latest weapon, a leg-break delivered with the whiplash arm of a spitting cobra, looks a vaguely suspicious contortion ... but unless the ICC bigwigs decide to take another look at [his] unorthodox action, he is going to add substantially to his haul of 461 Test wickets in the next three weeks."
The Mirror newspaper's Mike Walters fires the first accusation of the summer that Muttiah Muralitharan's action might be little suspect
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