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"Luckily it was in my arc, so I closed my eyes and had a little swing at it and it went over the rope. It was my day."
Luke Wright explains how he reached his century against the New Zealanders with a six
"Somebody must bowl."
Commentator Tony Cozier is bothered because of the delay caused by the confusion regarding the overs bowled by the Bangalore Royal Challengers' two Kumars - Vinay and Praveen - against the Kolkata Knight Riders
"Why hire a lawyer who reputedly charges £10,000 a day just to get you off a £60 fine?"
Times' journalist Ross Clark, in the paper's Thunderer column, questions the sense of Andrew Flintoff hiring the lawyer Nick Freeman, known as Mr Loophole, to get him out of a speeding fine
"The IPL has taken the game to virtually every house in the world."
Sachin Tendulkar holds forth on globalisation
"Once Shoaib sees the crowds, and of course the babes around, I think he will be able to perform."
Wasim Akram has a dig at Shoaib Akhtar
"I think there are a few people down there who are bitter about me leaving, but I'm not going to apologise for looking after No.1."
An unapologetic Simon Jones on life after leaving his home county Glamorgan
"To think of New Zealand cricket is to think of an afternoon in dullsville."
Journalist Stephen Brenkley can't wait for the international summer to get going
"What? Six weeks' razzle-dazzle enough to consign over a hundred years of Test cricket to the dump? You must be off your rocker."
David Gower makes his thoughts very clear in response to a journalist who asked if the IPL could help wipeout Test cricket
"I'm very, very happy now that Asia is running the game now. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job."
Former Australian allrounder Greg Matthews doesn't hold back punches
"As far as I am concerned, that was 20 runs too many, Why, perhaps even 47 runs too many."
Adam Gilchrist doesn't seem to have any regrets about finishing with a career average of 47.60
"If they want to talk about their life, they can, but not cricket."
Lalit Modi on the media gag imposed on IPL players, where they can only talk in pre- and post-match press conferences
"I left five minutes after the game. It was tight, but I understood there was always going be a flight. Our owners own the airport so things got through very quickly."
Daniel Vettori, now in England, had cut it tight, but all along he had his IPL franchise-owners to fall upon
"The ICC ... are in meltdown. This is an organisation with all the brains of a chocolate mouse."
Geoff Boycott with a clear message to those running the game
"The suggestion that the Indian Premier League is a runaway success has been completely manufactured. Even at this early stage, when the paint is still drying on the grounds, they are already giving away stacks of tickets."
Boycott again, this time not buying into the hype surrounding the IPL
"This is not cricket. This is the greatest divide between the rich and the poor. With that kind of money, you could have built another cement factory."
Jaswant Singh, leader of the Opposition, criticises the IPL in the Rajya Sabha
"It must seem like volunteer work to those who have drunk from the IPL's ruby-encrusted goblet."
Journalist Peter Lalor on what it will be like for the IPL set to return to international cricket
"Violence between players? Scantily clad cheerleaders? Toss in a rant by Charles Barkley and three minutes of commercials for every 45 seconds of actual game time and cricket may finally be ready for a mainstream American audience."
The Los Angeles Times warms to the idea of Twenty20 cricket after hearing about the IPL
"Can you, I was asked by a leading television executive, imagine cricket lovers rushing down St John's Wood Road to see a franchise called Vodafone Team London owned by an ageing rock star?"
ECB chairman Giles Clarke doesn't think a city-based Twenty20 competition would work in England
"The phrase 'he had it coming' has rarely been so close to everyone's lips."
A lack of sympathy for Sreesanth from journalist Lawrence Booth in his weekly newsletter
"What actually happened is a lot more serious than you guys think."
More questions than answers from match referee and Indian legend Farokh Engineer after the Harbhajan-Sreesanth slapping incident
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