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Cricket Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

52 Cricket quotes by Jonathan Agnew

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A debut bowler may feel the sting of a wicketless first innings, yet the sport celebrates odd heroes. The quotes describe Twenty20 as simple but effective, and they highlight the captain’s massive responsibility in guiding a team. Together they show cricket’s mix of caution and daring.

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In Test cricket, you have to be adaptable.

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Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

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Pietersen is an incredibly confident cricketer, almost brash.

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I've never got to the bottom of streaking

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You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.

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I was a professional cricketer from 16.

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I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football.

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Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

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Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

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It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.

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I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes.

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Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

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A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

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It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

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It is not about being the greatest team in the world ever, it is about fighting for every run and wicket.

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It's all you hear on a cricket field - 'Knock his head off, knock his head off.' Cricket has gone too far.…

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On your debut, you just want to get into the game. I remember when I played my first Test, we bowled first…

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Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to…

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It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of…

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Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease…

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It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from…

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This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing…

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I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't…

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When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have…

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Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.

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I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

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The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

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When you think of the great eight-wicket bowling figures in Test history, the names of Michael Holding, Shane Warne and Stuart Broad…

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It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

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With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.

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That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

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In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too…

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What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to…

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I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.

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There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

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I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams.…

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Virender Sehwag can tear any attack apart. He is audacious, takes risks and has fantastic hand/eye co-ordination.

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It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed…

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As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

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We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting.

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The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.

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We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.

It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you…

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness,…

Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but…

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face…

There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

Call me traditional, but Test cricket is the most important thing.

When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have.