Quote-unquote Glenmore Style(April 2009)
"I’m not tired yet. I can play a game of Cricket right now; but only batting though...."
-Darshan T shows his confident on his fitness level after a daylong skiing on Good Friday, 2009.
"I’m bringing 3 of my friends to join Glenmore this year & the names are: Nitin K, Rohan & Monty Singh"
-Nitin K considers himself as one of his friends.
"You've forgot to ask Glenmore socks!"
-Pasha M to Waseem A when Waseem excited about Glenmore colour clothing.
"Yes; you can borrow my balls.Now you're a stronger man"
-Bobby G to Darshan T when Darshan was looking for a used Cricket ball to season his new bat.
"Ganguly used to give me Pepsi, every time I bowled him out. Nowadays I'll have to buy my own damn Pepsi"
-Monty Singh bluffs about his cricket experience.
Quote ... unquote (April 2006)
"It really surprises me - you are so consistent and I'm not"
Sachin Tendulkar, on his 33rd birthday, thanks mediapersons for their unwavering love and affection
"I went back into the specialist's waiting room cheering because I had a hernia and I think everyone in there thought I was mad."
A delighted Ashley Giles recalls a beautiful moment ... He had worried he needed another hip operation - which would have taken longer to heal
"Dinosaurs. I think that is the greatest insult from someone who has not had any achievement in international cricket, just two or three titles with Queensland."
Dr Rudi Webster regrets endorsing Bennett King as national coach after King called some of the West Indies greats dinosaurs
"All these complaints about too much cricket nowadays is rubbish. In our days we yearned for more matches."
Javed Miandad joins the ranks of the 'in my day' old timers. In his 20-year international career, Miandad played 233 ODIs. Inzamam-ul-Haq, the current Pakistan captain, has played 251 in the last 10 years
"As a keen football fan myself it's exciting to be able to do my bit for the World Cup cause"
Darren Gough is delighted to be taking part in preparations for the football World Cup - he will appear in a pop video for an unofficial song as Cricinfo revealed
"Gillespie's innings produced no benefit whatever to the team or to Australian cricket, except maybe to show other tailenders what can be accomplished if you apply yourself."
An "anonymous" former Australian opener shoots from the hip. Whoever he is, we can assume he never made a Test double-century
"I'm sorry to say that I'm the person who recommended him to the WICB."
Rudi Webster rues his decision of recommending Bennett King to the WICB for the coach's post
"I can't believe Haydos is trying to start another war of words, I thought he would have learned from last time."
Ooh, ominous ... Simon Jones is bemused as to why Matthew Hayden would want to kick off again after what happened last summer
"Only the Aussies would organise it."
As plans for a nude beach cricket match to mark Anzac day approach fruition in Australia, New Zealand Returned Services Association spokesman Bill Hopper lays bare the fact that there will be no similar event in New Zealand
"At school it should be compulsory to learn the waltz."
Now, we know Darren Gough loves a bit of dancing, but this could be pushing it. Whatever next - mandatory Morris Dancing?
"There were snide remarks from the British media about some of the hotels in India, very cleverly forgetting that hotels in places like Durham and Derby or Sussex are pathetic to say the least. At least none of the Indian hotels are known to be haunted as the one in Durham is."
Sunil Gavaskar isn't happy about the British media,or the hotels over there
"The prospect of staging an Ashes Test match in Wales may be slightly less appropriate than holding an eisteddfod in Bulgaria."
The writer Stephen Brenkley suggests that the decision to award the Ashes to Cardiff is just not right
"It's just very inconvenient and not a little bit embarrassing. The players use their own trousers anyway and the jumpers are from last season."
Northamptonshire's chief executive, Mark Tagg, faces up to his county's first setback of the summer ... the delayed arrival of the team kit from China
"Matty Hayden reckons if I got to 200 he would do a nude lap of the Oval. I mentioned I would too ... [but] being in a Muslim country. I don't know if it would be perceived right."
Jason Gillespie should appreciate that 'it being a Muslim country' has got nothing to do with the streak being an unwelcome tour ender
"Whenever I am out of form, I get to play against India and I regain my form."
Younis Khan's advice to batsmen around the world after his 71 not out led Pakistan to victory in the 1st ODI at Abu Dhabi
"Hansel and Gretel and Dizzy's double hundred, it's one and the same. Absolute fairytale."
A dreamy Jason Gillespie goes all dizzy just thinking about his innings
"We looked up at the dressing room stairs and there was Kyle Mills. He was coming in to be a new-ball watchman, or something like that."
Dale Steyn's take on New Zealand's tactic to promote Kyle Mills to No 3 in the last innings of the first Test at Centurion. Mills lasted all of two balls.
"My life hasn't changed that much. I just get the piss taken out of me even more by the Essex boys. I seem to be the butt of everyone's jokes at the moment. I thought they might have moved on and found some new jokes but they seem to be happy with the old ones."
Fame in India has made little difference to Alastair Cook's life back in Essex.
"I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking: 'Great -- I've got one million pounds in the bank'."
Kevin Pietersen - are you sure? We know we would ...
"By giving Ramesh Powar consecutive games, India have found that here's a guy who has a heart as big as his waist, and loves to play in a tense situation."
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar puts things in perspective
"He's big and rawboned and I suspect he has the IQ of an empty swimming pool."
Former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore has nothing but praise for Andre Nel ahead of the first Test at Centurion
"If you'd been in our dressing room and seen how fatigued and exhausted some of the players are I think everyone would be quite surprised."
Ricky Ponting admits what everyone suspected
"I have bowled a trillion overs. I feel like I am running on fumes at the moment. The petrol's gone."
And Brett Lee also tells it how it is
"Year after year, the wonderful folks at the ICC assemble the world's best players and get them to play bad cricket. If they staged W.G.'s XI v The Don's XI at the Elysian Oval with S. F. Barnes bowling to Victor Trumper, they would find some way of making the occasion dismal. It's a gift, really: a form of anti-showmanship."
Matthew Engel writing in the new Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
"The weather is an occupational hazard at this time of year. We drove through a blizzard to get to Manchester, but once the ice was cleared we had lovely blue skies the rest of the day."
David Byas, Yorkshire's director of cricket, explains what fun his team had negotiating the Pennines en route to Old Trafford for a friendly
"We have had exceptionally wet weather in Derby ... everywhere in the county is in the same boat."
Must be getting crowded on board the County Ground's ark. Derbyshire's chief executive, Tom Sears, explains how the weather has affected them to - meaning they've had to shift to Surrey for their first fixture of the season
"Cricket has become very fond of the fashionable word 'stakeholder'. I occasionally get communications from official bodies addressed to me that way. One might swank about this, but I suspect my stakeholding is analogous to that of a woman with one share turning up at the Marks & Spencer AGM to moan about the knickers being frumpy."
Matthew Engel writing in the new Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
"The game could have been played, and the situation could have been avoided, but they made the wrong decision."
PK Deb, the vice-president of the regional Assam Cricket Association, accused the umpires of making a mistake, which led to riots after the abandonment of the Guwahati ODI
"Any team on their day can win the World Cup. It takes two people to win a game of one-day cricket. In five-day cricket, it's team against team and it takes a lot more than two people to win it."
Matthew Hoggard explains to the media why winning the Ashes means so much more to England than winning the World Cup
In the years BD (Before Doosra), it is hard to imagine the need for tolerance levels in the bend of the arm in delivery ..."
Mike Selvey on the moment that changed offspin bowling forever
"It was like Lennox Lewis whacked me."
Justin Langer recalls becoming punch-drunk after Makhaya Ntini's bouncer struck him in the head
"I'd like to add something here. Can I have a couple of tyres for my S-class back home?"
After talking at length about cricket at a press conference during the launch of a new set of tyres, Brian Lara gets his priorities right
"I don't think there's a place for a coach in international cricket. Every player at this level knows exactly what to do. The only thing a coach does is to punch worthless data into a computer."
Shane Warne, at his outspoken best spares nobody, including cricket coaches
"We agreed to stretch out the future tours programme from five to six years to give the boards the ability to manage the amount of cricket they and their players play. But what we have found is that boards quickly fill the gaps we created."
Ehsan Mani, the president of the ICC, on the risk of player burnout. Less than a fortnight ago Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, insisted the boards could be trusted with player welfare
"By this stage of an English winter, the voices of the Sky commentators have all merged into a single drone."
Former Wisden Almanack editor Tim de Lisle on TV coverage of the never-ending cricket circus
"We've got a Test match to win ... so if that means bowling short balls at him, so be it."
Mark Boucher asked about what would happen if Justin Langer, suffering from bad concussion after being struck on the head by Makhaya Ntini, came out to bat at Johannesburg
"The South Africans seem to want to give us a good stuffing after what happened to them over here a couple of years ago. That seemed to be the theme when we were there for the one-dayers last year, and I'm guessing little will have changed when we arrive. It'll be hostile."
Payback time, fears Jake. Jacob Oram expects no mercy from the hosts when the Kiwis take guard
"Faridabad always has such problems."
The secretary of the BCCI, Niranjan Shah, shrugs off an hour-long power-cut that disrupted media communications ahead of the second one-day international at Faridabad
"It's just pressure, pressure, pressure all the time. I equate it to waking up on Friday morning and playing Tiger Woods [in] matchplay and going to bed on Friday night when he's beaten you; you get up on Sunday and you've got to play him again. And then you've got to play him on Wednesday again, Saturday and again on Sunday."
South Africa's coach Mickey Arthur on the pressure of the non-stop itinerary against Australia
"Andre Nel ... idiot. Actions speak louder than words. He's chirped him [Gilchrist] and then gone for 22 in an over. If I was Nel I'd be embarrassed ... look in the mirror and ask yourself a few questions. Have I made an idiot of myself. Have I let down my country? Yes."
Alec Stewart after Nel's histrionics when he attempted to maintain his hard-man image with Adam Gilchrist at Durban
"It was pretty horrific, because he actually played it pretty well. It kept following him and he kept his eye on it the whole way."
Mike Hussey on Andrew Symonds, who was hit a nasty blow in the visor by Makhaya Ntini. Yes, he kept his eye on it, but sadly forgot to move his head out of the way
"A bad day does not make me feel I have been a waste and a good day does not mean I walk around like a peacock with my collars up."
Sreesanth, in an interview, reveals his fondness for reading motivational books
"That may well be the case, but you won't get me into a g-string, that's for sure"
When asked by fellow commentator Pat Symcox about the clothing modern players wear, Tony Greig bizarrely expresses his fear of the g-string
"By and large batsmen bash the ball about with a bravado that knows nothing of post-depression angst"
Peter Roebuck on the batsmen of the modern era
"It is clear that very important decisions are being made by ICC committees which have no international cricket playing experience and appear to have today from a players perspective."
Players' association chief executive Tim May attacks the ICC for imposing ever more punishing itineraries on his members
"We ate our lunch and played a bit of Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire. It got the lads going and we came out afterwards with a spring in our step."
Andrew Flintoff reveals the secret ingredient that enabled England to take seven wickets in an hour on the final day at Mumbai
"It's a song that has been very popular these past few weeks. It has seemed quite appropriate in this part of the world on a tour when several players have had upset stomachs."
Matthew Hoggard sheds further light
"The sun's always there. It hasn't moved."
Tell it like it is, Beefy. Ian Botham dismisses Monty Panesar's non-effort to catch Mahendra Dhoni's skier at Mumbai
"For me to say I will bowl on winning the toss, the grass will have to be knee-deep."
Not that he was criticising Rahul Dravid's decision, but Andrew Flintoff confirms he was quite happy to bat first in the Mumbai Test
"Freddie manages us better than those batsmen who flog us to death and don't give two hoots."
A beaming Matthew Hoggard gives a thumbs-up to Andrew Flintoff's man-management skills
"It's almost as big as the Ashes."
The England coach Duncan Fletcher commenting on England's victory over India to draw the series
"With all these bachelors we need to get some Essex girls to sort some of these youngsters out."
Essex captain Ronnie Irani looks forward to some weddings at the County Ground soon
"I go out and do my best and there are days when things go for you. You want to stick two fingers up but you can't really do that."
Admirable honesty from Geraint Jones after a good day at the office, at last
"I wonder what would be said by the BCCI if we offered the president no seat, no lunch and no tea at Lord's?"
Robin Marlar, the MCC president, tees off again - only this time he may have a point if his claims that he wasn't offered a seat at the Mumbai Test are true
"Mumbai is the headquarters of Indian cricket and it's sad our crowd behaved in such a manner. This isn't the first time they have insulted a great player. It shouldn't ever happen again."
Dilip Vengsarkar after the Mumbai crowd had booed Sachin Tendulkar
"If the Australians can find some sticky tape to put across their legspinner's mouth (they had better buy an entire roll), a means of stopping Michael Kasprowicz overstepping and Andrew Symonds from taking the wrong risks, they can look forward to more happy days on the South African continent."
Peter Roebuck has some advice for the touring Australian side
"In an effort to smarten myself up a bit, I went to a tailor's shop to be measured up for a suit, and we must have had about 25 near-death experiences during the short taxi ride there."
Alastair Cook in The Telegraph samples life in Mumbai and lives to tell the tale
"In the end I wasn't happy about walking away from something that I was doing poorly, or from a perception that I was doing poorly; I just didn't want to go out on that note. It was the soft option."
Stephen Fleming on why he talked himself out of resigning the New Zealand captaincy during the series against Sri Lanka
"While some charge along at eight an over, his batting, based around an immaculate defence, an ornithologist's patience and cultured strokes along the ground, has always had an old-fashioned air."
Simon Hughes in The Telegraph best describes Rahul Dravid's batting
"I've seen him playing football before a Test match, and believe me, his second touch was always a throw-in."
Looking on from the Sky Sports studios, Alec Stewart rubbishes Shane Warne's footballing skills, after he managed to salvage a slip catch against South Africa with some fancy footwork
"As dear old Kenny Barrington, who had a marvellous record in India, used to say, 'if you get in, book in for bed and breakfast."
Geoff Boycott in his column in The Telegraph, on the importance of batting with patience on Indian pitches, which England failed to do at Mohali
"I know it's a great cricketing achievement, and I know it's newsworthy. But it's cricket, for God's sake. Where's our sense of perspective?"
Editorial on South African website news24.com calms the excitement after the "greatest one-day match ever"
"Cricket's rulers keep tinkering with one-day cricket to try to make it more sexy, with the now-abandoned super-subs, and the power play. Both are devices to encourage big-hitting batsmen, to make sexier television programs, to allow the television station to sell more advertisements."
Simon Barnes on the selling of the game for the sake of a quick buck
"We don't really want to mention his name any more."
South Africa's coach Mickey Arthur on his way of dealing with Shane Warne
"That's just the nature of the beast isn't it? Some days you have a great day, some days you have a shit day. That's life mate, it is no big concern. It won't worry me."
Mick Lewis reflects on his figures of 10-0-113-0 against South Africa, at Johannesburg, the most expensive in one-day international history
"Years ago the bats we used had a sweet spot of a couple of inches. Now the sweet spot is the entire bat."
Steve Waugh marvels at the changing times
"We are going to go after Mr Dalmiya in the courts and get the truth one way or another."
Lalit Modi, the Indian board's new powerbroker, makes clear that the former BCCI chief remains firmly in his sights
"4.8 runs per over is negative? Get a life mate, will you? What more do you want?"
A surprisingly animated Bob Willis responds to a viewer's complaint that India batted negatively on the fourth day of the second Test against England
"It's a pity I couldn't get out there today - it looked like a good runway for bowlers."
Man-of-the-series Shaun Pollock was understandably upset not to be a part of the run-fest at The Wanderers
"Andrew Symonds is gambling here...he's at the casino."
Barry Richards commentating on Symonds' innings during Australia's successful run chase against South Africa at Durban
"I called home and talked for five minutes which cost me one million Zimbabwe dollars. We were all millionaires ... even if our money couldn't buy us much."
Kenya's captain Steve Tikolo on touring Zimbabwe, where inflation is running at 600%
"It's odd ... there are more people outside the hotels to catch a glimpse of the players than there are queuing to get into the ground."
Bob Willis ponders the complexities of Indian life
"I'm completely the opposite. I couldn't tell you how many wickets I have taken; I don't even have a coffin, it's bags these days. And the only thing stuck to the top of that is some dirt from the last time I did not clean my boots properly."
Matthew Hoggard rejects comparisons with Darren Gough, who used to keep a tally of his Test wickets inside his coffin lid and tick off bowlers as he passed them
"Always? I've only done it once! But I'm very much a tails man. I used to call tails in the Under 11s."
England's new captain, Andrew Flintoff, on whether he always stuck to the same choice of call as he made at the toss at Nagpur
"A friend in South Africa with the Australia team told me they soon won't be asking the Australian side for birth certificates, they'll want carbon dating."
The Guardian's Mike Selvey takes a pop at Australia's ageing squad
"Kenya are an ageing side and they do not have the depth we have. If we play them again, with the same group of youngsters, we will beat them easily."
Zimbabwe's coach Kevin Curran with an interesting take on events after Zimbabwe scraped a 2-2 draw at home to Kenya
"It's cost me lots of stuff. At the end of the day, it's cost me probably ... a chance to captain Australia."
Shane Warne admits that his behaviour in the past has cost him the opportunity to lead his country
"I felt a bit like Steve McQueen and, looking at the boundary fences, I wondered about recreating his skid into the barbed wire in The Great Escape."
Matthew Hoggard reveals his daredevil fantasies while taking the bike for a spin at Nagpur. Can England really afford another injury at this stage? We guess not
"We have a long way to go before we need to worry about being mobbed by groupies."
Not quite like Guns N' Roses. Brett Lee, bass guitarist of the band Six And Out, when asked about the popularity of his group
"The umpire [Aleem Dar] told me about a girl in the stands holding up a banner asking me to marry her. I said I'll have to keep my eye out for her."
At this rate, Alastair Cook's days as a bachelor may be numbered
"That's a beautiful cover-drive through the covers."
Javagal Srinath, on commentary, states the obvious
"It's a little far to Mohali .. but I might have a buzz round the ground."
Matthew Hoggard, the winner of a 125cc moped as part of his Man-of-the-Match award at Nagpur, asked if he would be taking the bike with him
"Haven't quite got the skills yet."
George Bush's honest assessment of his first time trying to play cricket in Pakistan
"She told us she enjoyed the summer. She was nervous watching it when I took the final catch at Edgbaston."
Geraint Jones reports that the Queen was just as nervous as the rest of England last summer
"Absolutely crap."
No ambiguity in Zimbabwe coach Kevin Curran'sreply to suggestions that there was yet again disharmony inside his team after they were skittled for 69 by Kenya
"I'm a cricket-match person. As I understand it, I may have a little chance to learn something about cricket. It's a great pastime."
US president George Bush ahead of his visit to Pakistan. Presumably, one of his aides told him to try to appeal to the cricketing voters
"Yeah, George. He probably thinks it's hoops, mallets, tea and crumpets."
Mike Selvey on Bush's comments
"It was a nice way to get off the mark ... close your eyes and swing."
Alastair Cook after making an impressive 60 on his Test debut
"Chicken is chicken. But to be honest with you, I've got a few mo' things on me plate than chicken."
England's new captain, Andrew Flintoff, eases into his new role by reflecting on the availability of bird-flu-free poultry in the hotel restaurant
"You might remember me ... I was captain of England when they were crap."
Former England captain Nasser Hussain's opening line at the British Asian awards
"Two more warm-up matches would only mean another eight days away from the wife, the local pub and the football."
Geoff Boycott hints that England are better off playing more practice games to give the new recruits a look-in
"Those guys will respond to anyone really, because they are just coming into the side and making their debuts. You could leave Ronnie Irani in charge and still they'd be lifted!"
Nasser Hussain has no doubt that the young England players will lift themselves for the Indian challenge
"Thank God we might be changing sponsors. That might allow us to play at different times. I don't know whether I can say that, but I have."
He couldn't. Darren Lehmann was cited by Cricket Australia for criticising ING, the out-going sponsors of Australia's one-day tournament, for the 9.30am start to the final, which he thought was a huge factor in the result - South Australia lost
"The first thing I did [upon returning from Pakistan] was to change the batteries of my Yamaha RD 350cc and Yamaha R-6 600cc bikes. And then I went for a drive at 6 am the next morning. I have also bought a Pajero...and a black labrador named Zara."
Mahendra Singh Dhoni answers to the point
"We have to hope that the gynaecological department in the north-west keeps Mrs Flintoff in one piece because we don't want him to have to rush home, do we?"
Sky Sports presenter Charles Colvile hopes that Andrew Flintoff is not caught out by a quick delivery
"Yeah, me and every batsman in county cricket at the moment."
With England's top order beset by problems, Robert Key reckons the chances of getting a game in the Nagpur Test side are pretty good right now. Key himself isn't fit, though; he has a shoulder injury
"It's not been the ideal preparation leading into a tough Test series"
Michael Vaughan confirms what everyone was thinking after England slumped to an eight-wicket defeat against the Board President's XI
"Cricket is a game that helps build character. Unfortunately, football is not producing good role models. They go to jail, there are instances of bad behaviour in the game, some on the verge of criminal behaviour."
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, on why cricket and football are wholly different ball games
"I'm a cricket match person. I appreciate it. As I understand it, I may have a little chance to learn something about cricket. It's a great pastime."
The US President George Bush aims to watch some matches while visiting India
"We made a mistake in trying to keep things going these last two years. We should have walked away and let it collapse, so we could start again with new administrators."
Former Zimbabwe player, administrator and selector Ethan Dubeon the ongoing crisis in his homeland
"Ponting, you just keep your mouth shut and look back to what they did against you people in Cardiff last year and take a note of the latest one against Sri Lanka."
It's Ricky Ponting's turn to face a Wasim Akram salvo for suggesting that Bangladesh should not play Test cricket
"All the broadcasters could easily turn round and say, 'sod you, we've done our figures, there's no way we're paying that.' It 's a mess. This is the big test for Indian cricket because I think this deal will determine whether Indian cricket can sustain this kind of money and my feeling is I don't think it can."
An insider at British broadcaster Sky TV on thoughts that Nimbus, who paid $612 million for India's TV rights for four years, might have bitten off more than it can chew
"Mi nuh say we nuh need the spin-offs of the Cricket World Cup and the extra revenue, but nothing fi come inna di way of education."
Jamaican singer Coco Tea says local schools should be kept open during the 2007 World Cup
"The consumption of alcohol has a dehydrating effect, takes a while to get out of the system, slows you down and prevents you from functioning efficiently."
New Kenya coach Roger Harper with some sound advice for his players after studying their lifestyle
"I have been working a lot on my core strength but I still haven't got the Brett Lee arse
Reference: http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/quote/content/current/page/156062.html
I still don't think this 500 makes me a great cricketer, I've still much to learn. -Brian Lara 1994
Cricket is baseball on vallium - Robin Williams -comedian -1992
I bowl the ball so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don't like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back- J.M. Barrie novelist 1947
There is no essential discrepancy between the game's time honoured virtues and the world we live in. It is a matter of creatively adapting the form in order to preserve the content. So far much valuable time has been wasted on quibbling over what 'isn't cricket', and not much has been devoted to what cricket should become - Imran Khan 1988
Cricket is a game of the most terrifying stresses with more luck about it than any other game I know. They call it a team game, but in fact its the loneliest game of all - John Arlott - 1962
There is a widely held and quite erroneously held belief that cricket is just another game - Prince Phillip-1975
Every batsman must realise that his duty is first, last and all the time to his side and not to himself -MCC Coaching Book-1976
I regard an over as having six bullets in a gun. I use those bullets strategically, to manipulate the batsman into a certain position or state of mind, so that I can eliminate him- Sir Richard Hadlee, soon after being the first bowler to gain 400 test wickets in 1990
Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined and their interpretation is partly an ethical business - George Orwell, novelist -1944
Viv Richards- his game embraced a contempt for his fate, a foaming fury, because to him, cricket was a game of kill or be killed, a street fight in which it was left to the umpires to keep the piece - Peter Roebuck 1993
Cricket is the National Sport of Canada- Sir John A Macdonald, Canadian Prime Minister 1880's
Cricket speaks in languages far beyond that of politicians- Nelson Mandela 1995
What is human life but a game of cricket- Duke of Dorset 1797
One day cricket is like fast food - no one wants to cook - Viv Richards 1988
A test match is like a painting. A one day game is like a Rolf Harris painting- Ian Chappell