Dec 29, 2006

"We're continuing our investigations, and when we find who did it we are stringing them up by his ding-dang-doos and we're chopping them off."

Well done Matthew Hoggard for treating meaningless drivel with the approach it deserves. He was reacting to the "leaked" battle plan for the England bowlers

Dec 27, 2006
Dec 26, 2006

"When me and Lamby were playing we weren't to be seen done up like a couple of pox-doctors' clerks prancing about. No way!"

Ian Botham lashes out at cricketers taking part in dance competitions, after Darren Gough and Mark Ramprakash were crowned successive champions on Strictly Come Dancing

Dec 25, 2006
Dec 24, 2006

"Like our England have Fart of the Day, South Australia have Muff of the Day."

An unusual innovation in women's cricket, as revealed by England's Jenny Gunn

Dec 24, 2006

"I know the sport is huge here. I follow it myself."

Tennis world No. 1 Roger Federer after playing cricket at a shelter camp for tsunami refugees in Sri Lanka. Federer's mother is South African

Dec 21, 2006
Dec 20, 2006

"We hope the white ball is clearer to see."

Stephen Fleming hopes for better fortunes in the one-dayers for his side, especially against Lasith Malinga, whose round-arm action with the red ball continues to baffle them

Dec 19, 2006
Dec 18, 2006

"Mate, unbelievable. Australia, you bloody beauty! Sensational!"

Matthew Hayden tries to put into words what regaining the Ashes means - with limited success

Dec 17, 2006

"He carried on like a small child whose mother would have smacked him."

Geoff Boycott on Shane Warne's histrionics after an appeal against Kevin Pietersen was (rightly) turned down

Dec 16, 2006

"They didn't even read it. They are all biased. There is no misappropriation. It is only their misinterpretation."

An angry Jagmohan Dalmiya after he was expelled from the BCCI. A 46-page report he submitted in his defence was not even read before the decision was taken

Dec 15, 2006

"Jones was pathetic. His mental attitude to Test-match cricket at the moment is shocking. He's just getting out in some ridiculous ways."

Geoff Boycott, no big fan of Geraint Jones, says what many others in England have been thinking in recent days

Dec 13, 2006

"Get me out of here as soon as you can."

A sotto voce Andrew Flintoff is caught on tape talking to the ECB Media officer Andrew Walpole, ahead of the captain's pre-match press conference at the WACA

Dec 11, 2006
Nov 01, 2006

"You can't bring it back ... it's gone. I'll just spend the next 20 years worrying about it."

Ashley Giles won't be forgetting his spilled chance off Ricky Ponting in a hurry

Oct 31, 2006

"Shane Warne sounds like he is constipated."

Dean du Plessis, a blind commentator in Zimbabwe, explains how he knows when Warne is bowling