A biography for Jonathan Agnewhasn’t been written yet.
“I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players.”
“Cruising on the old rice boats in Kerala, southern India, with my wife was amazing.”
“There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away.”
“It is difficult to master the skill of scoring runs from a 90mph delivery that is dug into your armpit or is fizzing past your nose.”
“Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.”
“Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.”
“My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life.”
“With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through.”
“Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.”
“The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works.”
“I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.”
“You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life.”
“There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job.”
“I fly a light aircraft.”
“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.”
“The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.”
“Being a stepfather is a huge challenge.”
“I very rarely watch any television at all.”
“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.”
“If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true.”