“Yardy doing a good job out there—1-14 off his five overs so far—but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.” EnglandCricketCommentaryBangladeshEngland Cricket TeamBangladesh National Cricket TeamMichael Yardy Author:Tom Fordyce
“The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart. The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again.” EnglandAustraliaCricket1970s20111980sEngland Cricket Team2010sAustralia National Cricket TeamThe Ashes2010 11 Ashes Series2013 Ashes SeriesWest Indies Cricket Team Author:Geoffrey Boycott
“We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!” CricketProfessionalismCelebrationsEngland Cricket Team2010 Icc World Twenty20 Author:Paul Collingwood
“So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these Brit people are trying to sympathize with me... 'Oh Bill, crime is horrible. Bill, if it's any consolation crime is horrible here, too.' ...Shutup. This is Hobbitown and I am Bilbo Hicks, Okay? This is a land of fairies and elves. You do not have crime like we have crime, but I appreciate you trying to be, you know, Diplomatic. You gotta see English crime. It's hilarious, you don't know if you're reading the front page or the comic section over there. I swear to God. I read an article - front page of the paper - one day, in England: 'Yesterday, some Hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shafsbry.' Wooooo... 'The hooligans are loose! The hooligans are loose! What if they become roughians? I would hate to be a dustbin in Shafsbry tonight.” HumorCrimeHooligansEngland Cricket TeamRoughians Author:Bill Hicks
“The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.” MediaExpertsCricketScrutinyBody LanguageEngland Cricket TeamHandshakesAustralia National Cricket TeamThe Ashes Author:Lawrence Booth
“Tavaré played 30 Tests for England between 1980 and 1984, adding a final cap five years later. He filled for much of that period the role of opening batsman, even though the bulk of his first-class career was spent at Nos. 3 and 4. He was, in that sense, a typical selection in a period of chronic English indecision and improvisation, filling a hole rather than commanding a place. But he tried—how he tried. Ranji once spoke of players who 'went grey in the service of the game'; Tavaré, slim, round-shouldered, with a feint moustache, looked careworn and world-weary from the moment he graduated to international cricket.” CricketEngland Cricket TeamTest CricketChris TavareOpening BatsmanRanjitsinhjiSlow Scoring Author:Gideon Haigh
“He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.” Cricket2010England Cricket TeamMisspeakingAlastair Cook Author:Andrew Strauss