crickinfo quotes
here's some crickinfo quotes i found hilarious:
1."How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?"
Rafael Benitez, manager of Liverpool FC, struggles to understand the great game.
2.It's much better than being a footballer - in that game half the nation hates you because you play for the wrong club. That must be hell."
Rachael Flintoff is delighted, like the rest of the nation, that Freddie chose cricket
3."If he wants to do another fitness test two days out from the fifth Test, I'll kick his bum because it's distracting everyone"
Former Australian batsman Dean Jones has had enough of Glenn McGrath's fitness worries and wants him to clear all uncertainty well before the final Test at The Oval
4."That Glenn McGrath ... what a bastard."
Cricket nut Mick Jagger profiles Australia's veteran seamer
5."Most teams, you know, only the next player to bat puts pads on. With Zimbabwe, everyone puts pads on."
A Zimbabwe supporter half-jokingly comments on his national team
6."Get a single down the other end and watch someone else play him."
Geoff Boycott when asked how best to tackle Glenn McGrath
7."Freddie is a big unit and likes to get very animated when he is appealing, which puts extra duress on the crotch area of his trousers."
Andrew Flintoff's trouser manufacturer explains why the big man needs a reinforced crotch
8."I just try to bore the batsmen out. It's pretty simple stuff but the complicated thing is to keep it simple"
Glenn McGrath reveals his formula, after marching into the exclusive 500 club
9."I wouldn't nick it."
Adam Gilchrist's response to whether he would walk if Australia were two short of victory in the final Test with one wicket at hand
10."Jason Gillespie is a 30-year-old in a 36-year-old body"
Former England captain Bob Willis fires away
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11."It took us so long to win a Test ourselves, and I don't feel qualified to make a statement on their cricket"
Stephen Fleming remembers New Zealand cricket's dark ages when asked to comment on the current Zimbabwe side
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