Jonathan Agnew

“It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from the village green to the Test arena, it is a sociable sport.”

“Adelaide is terribly underrated. There are lovely wide streets, beautiful parks, one of the most scenic cricket grounds, wonderful beaches, and vineyards nearby. The food and the people are lovely, and it's not too big and sprawling.”

“Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy.”

“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.”

“I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.”

“It takes very little effort to make someone happy.”

“My dad was a keen cricketer - he played at school and club level - but it was hard for him to find time for it because he was a farmer, so he encouraged me and my brother.”

“Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He's not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.”

“Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.”

“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!”

“Anybody can have a dip in form.”

“Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.”

“It's an interesting education to listen to cricket commentary when you're not at the game. When you're there, which is most of the time for me, it flows over you. But when you're not there, you look at it in a slightly different way. You pick up things.”

“Pietersen is an incredibly confident cricketer, almost brash.”

“Virender Sehwag can tear any attack apart. He is audacious, takes risks and has fantastic hand/eye co-ordination.”

“Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.”

“The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.”

“The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.”

“I always wanted to be a professional cricketer, which meant I didn't work as much as I should have done at exams. But, happily, it came off.”

“We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined.”