It’s all you hear on a cricket field – ‘Knock his head off, knock his head off.’ Cricket has gone too far. It shouldn’t be posturing, abusing. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
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 nastiness. It’s become accepted, and actually it’s not acceptable at all. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you’ve spent hours preparing all this stuff? You’re going to bloody well read it out. Boring! Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers’ trust, especially when it comes to fields. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
A bowler should be allowed to point out to an umpire that a batsman is backing up, leaving the officials to watch what is going on. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
The truly great players have this advantage over the rest of the international elite, gifted though those others are: they have the ability to slow down a ball travelling at 90mph, to move before others can, to make the world adjust to their rhythm rather than the other way round. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
When you are captain at the same time, that’s when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures. Jonathan Agnew Read Quote
