ashes quotes

[Ken Gargett]

from the sporting bet comp tip site - probably mean nothing to most no cricket fans.

"How anyone can spin a ball the width of Gatting boggles the mind."

Martin Johnson, in The Independent, on Shane Warne's ball of the century which bowled Mike Gatting in 1993

"If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him."

Graham Gooch joins the fun

"Hell, Gatt, move out of the way, I can't see the stumps."

Dennis Lillee, stopping in mid-run at Lilac Hill, opening match of England's 1994-95 Ashes tour

All the never-say-die qualities of a kamikaze pilot."

England's cricketers in the 1990s, as seen by an Australian journalist

"England have only three major problems. They can't bat, they can't bowl and they can't field."

Martin Johnson's famed assessment in The Independent at the start of England's tour of Australia 1986-7. England's recovery to win the Ashes later led Johnson to remark: "Right quote; wrong team." "With the possible exception of Rolf Harris, no other Australian has inflicted more pain and grief on Englishmen since Don Bradman."

The Daily Mirror's Mike Walters reflects on Steve Waugh's retirement

[Kangaroo495]

"If it had been a cheese roll, it would never have got past him."

Ha ha! Nice one!

I think that was Boon's tactics - envisage the ball as a can of VB. Was also his tactic while fielding I believe.

[bunburyist]

Ha ha - I like the cheese roll one.

Here's a few more, although inexplicably Aussie biased:

Ashes quotes

Might I bring your attention to Glenn McGrath's quote at no.7. That'll learn him.

Looks like the rain at Edgbaston might save you boys from going 2-0 down, but I wouldn't bet on it...