"There used to be a bloke who gave himself out by walking when he'd hit the ball. The popularity of that within his team-mates may be shown by the fact that since his retirement, they no longer reply to any emails, phone calls or text messages."
Adam Gilchrist gives a tongue-in-cheek response to his own philosophy of 'walking'

Oct 12, 2008

"I'm not Jerry Maguire."
Stephen Fleming explains his new profession is much more than just being a sports agent

Oct 11, 2008

"I will definitely answer him after the series is over. He will get more than what he has asked for."
Dilip Vengsarkar gives Sourav Ganguly the silent treatment, for now

Oct 10, 2008

"Got no interest in going back to play cricket for Australia. None whatsoever."
At least one thing is for certain in Shane Warne's future plans

Oct 10, 2008

"This is a bizarre concept. I find it a strange one. I don't know quite what to make of it but I'm sure I could put the money to a good home if we win!"
Andrew Flintoff is quite amused by the Stanford 20/20 for 20 and the US$20 million on offer

Oct 10, 2008

"At night I'd lie there and go 'S***, when am I going to see my kids?' There were times I'd sit there and drink my mini bar until three in the morning just to get to sleep... I cried a fair bit when I was by myself.'"
Shane Warne talks of how he felt after his divorce in 2005

Oct 10, 2008

"I am God's favourite son, he has given me all."
Harbhajan Singh thinks he's truly blessed

Oct 10, 2008

"My name is Harbhajan Singh and I want to be addressed as Harbhajan Singh."
Harbhajan Singh makes it clear that he is not too fond of being called "Turbanator"

Oct 10, 2008

"The actual cricket is quite unimportant, apart from financially. Of course, money does talk and a lot of the players are excited about playing it but in terms of cricket, we know it's not that important."
Alastair Cook says what everyone pretty much knew ... that the Stanford 20/20 for 20 is little more than a means to make a quick buck

Oct 10, 2008

"By saying all these things, he has not helped himself and I don't think he has helped the harmony in the dressing room. All that he had to say, he could have said that after the series was over."
Sunil Gavaskar criticises the timing of Sourav Ganguly's outburst on the humiliation of being dropped

Oct 10, 2008

"They know what kind of skipper I am: no nonsense and no mediocrity."
Kevin Pietersen makes it clear he's here to stay as England captain

Oct 10, 2008

"I ask myself 'What am I?' I don't know what to say. So I end up putting 'businessman'. Sometimes I put 'ex-sportsman'. But 'businessman' seems to fit most of the time."
Shane Warne facing an identity crisis?

Oct 9, 2008

"The old BCCI site looks like it was banged together in an hour by a teenage slacker between puffs on a bong."
High praise for the design of the Indian board's old website on a Guardian blog

Oct 9, 2008

"There are some who have changed their hairstyle more than they have scored for India."
Sourav Ganguly isn't too impressed with some of the newcomers in the Indian team

Oct 9, 2008

"I was tired of being humiliated again and again. I don't want to play cricket at the mercy of others."
Sourav Ganguly unburdens himself to a Bengali newspaper in the wake of his retirement announcement

Oct 8, 2008

"The players know there won't be any open-top bus parades if we beat a Stanford team."
Kevin Pietersen admits that while the cash is good, the kudos is less impressive

Oct 8, 2008

"He wouldn't be Ganguly if I'd change anything."
Rahul Dravid pays a compliment to his team-mate

Oct 8, 2008

"It came as a surprise as he told us in the dressing room that he was quitting. It was towards the end of practice and I was surprised. I could not even talk to him since he had to rush to the press conference."
Sachin Tendulkar's reaction to Sourav Ganguly's decision to retire from international cricket

Oct 8, 2008

"One positive coming from that game was I could hear all this yelling and screaming coming from the background and it was Jason on the boundary."
Ricky Ponting on Jason Krejza's eagerness to have a bowl

Oct 8, 2008

"Every series has its charm and even India-Australia has such charm. But you can't really beat the rivalry that India-Pakistan has."
Anil Kumble strikes a different note ahead of the most hyped series of the year

Oct 8, 2008