108 Quotes by Jonathan Agnew

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

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    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.

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  • Author Jonathan Agnew
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    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.

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    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.

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    Stuart Broad's 400th Test wicket did not come the way he would have wanted - Tom Latham chipped the ball to mid-wicket - but he will take it nonetheless. It is a fantastic achievement.

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

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