This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
I don't think cricket will ever have the same sort of money as football. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away,… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
On your debut, you just want to get into the game. I remember when I played my first Test, we bowled first and I… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
I love the individual characters that cricket produces and, more than most other sports, the unlikely heroes. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness,… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
