"I've done a billion photo shoots, but it's always with my clothes on."
Brett Lee refuses to model his new underwear range

Aug 19, 2008

"My cricket age is also my real age."
Yasir Hameed when asked why he made a debut aged 25, which is considered old by Pakistani standards

Aug 18, 2008

"I think you will get a good and sympathetic hearing from the cricket fraternity in London but what use is that if the powers that be won't let tours take place."
Sir Don Bradman in a letter to South African cricket chief Joe Pamensky in April 1978. Bradman was not pleased with cricket's becoming a part of politics

Aug 17, 2008

"For a moment I was convinced I was dying. I knew I was in serious trouble ... I had to get help."
Marcus Trescothick on the extent of the illness that forced him to fly home from the last Ashes tour, and pushed him into early international retirement

Aug 17, 2008

"People sitting up there drinking their gin and tonic don't have to deal with it."
Lancashire captain Stuart Law after the club decided not to renew Dominic Cork's contract

Aug 16, 2008

"I just can't think of a life without cricket"
Sanath Jayasuriya looks forward to retirement with trepidation

Aug 16, 2008

"There are too many bull****ters in cricket,"
Andrew Caddick gives a typically forthright view of English cricket

Aug 15, 2008

"The Australians put their views across in a very polite way and perhaps not as animated or as cynical as the New Zealand players."
The ICC's general manager of cricket, Dave Richardson, says convincing 22 New Zealand players of the security measures in Pakistan was a tough ask.

Aug 15, 2008

"...waiting for such a verdict is like three minutes in the ICU. The heart misses so many beats..."
Sourav Ganguly gives his take on the umpire review system to the Telegraph

Aug 15, 2008

"He just doesn't know how to do it. He thinks he's being a hard arse but he's just not a hard arse."
Dirk Nannes on Middlesex team-mate Murali Karthik's sledging (in)abilities

Aug 14, 2008

"I think they really would make great cricket players. If you can turn a desert into a garden you would be an awesome cricketer because you have determination and fight."
Jonty Rhodes thinks Israelis could turn their hands from gardening to ... cricket

Aug 14, 2008

"One of Pietersen's great triumphs this week was that he managed to get the assortment of drunks, cynics, skivers, scoundrels, gamblers and geeks collectively known as the press corps buzzing with excitement."
As chief cricket correspondent of The Times, Michael Atherton begs the question: which category does he fall into?

Aug 14, 2008

"Even in Sinhalese he's very quiet. The only time he's bubbly is when you ask him to come and bowl."
Communication isn't quite Ajantha Mendis' forte, observes Mahela Jayawardene

Aug 14, 2008

"Although I am a grown up kid now I don't celebrate the day with fanfare but the sms are pouring in which showed that I am still popular."
Shoaib Akhtar is touched by his own popularity on his 33rd birthday

Aug 13, 2008

"I'll just ask Mahela if he will lend Mendis for a couple of practice sessions."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni jokes when asked about how India will handle Ajantha Mendis in the ODIs

Aug 13, 2008

"Welcome to the world of 'Mere Mortals'. The difference between you and the rest of us is that we only have to remember a couple of months back for our last bad month - you have to remember ten years ago."
Neil McKenzie sees the lighter side of Jacques Kallis' poor form in the Test series against England

Aug 13, 2008

"The glamour boys are coming and the blockers are going home."
South Africa's Test opener Neil McKenzie on the changes to the squad for the ODI series against England.

Aug 13, 2008

"I can hit a golf ball a long way but for some reason I struggle to hit a cricket ball a long way."
Perhaps Alastair Cook chose the wrong sport

Aug 12, 2008

"If I had children I wouldn't be teaching them as I was taught."
England Test opener Alastair Cook reflects on the money coming into the game and its effects on technique

Aug 12, 2008

"If we play like we played this week we're going to beat Australia."
Kevin Pietersen, England's one-Test-old captain, oozes confidence after the win against South Africa at The Oval

Aug 12, 2008