Quotes by Jonathan Agnew - Page 2

It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Cricket
Management
Nothing New
Afforded
Wrestle
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Leaving
Officials
Backing
Bowler
Umpire
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As a player, when things are going against you, you look to the captain to inject some energy but I don't see any of that from Amla.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Captain
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Delivery
Dug
Master
Nose
Runs
Scoring
Skill
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The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Change Your Me
Corner
Sympathise
Targets
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I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Rome
Smell
Wander
Corner
Street Corner
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As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Retired
Time Long Long Time
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Work Always Done
Exams
Happily
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Cricket
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No matter how bad your hotel is, take a deep breath, because if you can get through a night, it won't seem quite so bad the following morning.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Deep Breath
Hotel
Take A Deep Breath
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Word can spread quickly around the international circuit if a player is perceived to have a fault, particularly if it is against short bowling.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Bowling
Spread
Circuit
Fault
Perceived
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In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too many deliveries.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Luxury
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Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Authority
Maintaining
Bowler
Captain
Exercising
Overall
Sees
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I played in Sri Lanka, so I know how hard it is to come here and win. The weather is baking hot and the conditions are alien to English cricketers.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Baking
Conditions
Sri Lanka
Weather
Alien
Lanka
Sri
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When you think of the great eight-wicket bowling figures in Test history, the names of Michael Holding, Shane Warne and Stuart Broad spring to mind.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Bowling
Figures
Shane
Spring
Broad
Holding
Stuart
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Decay
Time Your Game
Captain
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Swings
Pitches
Quick
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Arena
Sociable
Village
Time Good Green
Long List
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I wish I'd done better for England. I only played three Tests and three One Day internationals. You have to take your chances and, for whatever reason, I didn't.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Done Your Better
Chances
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Fitness
Concentration
Discipline
Skill
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I played at school then signed up with Leicestershire when I was 18, for £20 per week. In those days cricket wasn't a full-time job; in the winter you had nothing to do.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Cricket
Winter
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Signed
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Time Dad Me
Encouraged
Farmer
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For me, Test cricket at its best is all about ebb and flow of initiative, and it's always a fascinating moment of the match for me when one sides snatches it from the other.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Cricket
Fascinating
Flow
Initiative
Sides
Best Moment Me
Best Moment Always
Ebb
Match
Test
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Bowling on English pitches is not rocket science. If you bowl a good length on off stump, the ball just has to do a fraction, up or down or side to side, and you get someone out.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Length
Rocket Science
Bowl
Fraction
Pitches
Rocket
Stump
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There's little that's subtle about Hardus Viljoen - he's a broad-chested, broad-shouldered fast bowler, who simply trundles up to the wicket and hurls it down as fast as possible.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Subtle
Bowler
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When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have to make sure that you don't give the bowlers any more advantages.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Batting
Technique
Tested
Advantages
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Achievement
Broad
Nonetheless
Stuart
Tom
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Preparation is not just about batting and bowling. You have to consider lots of things - the travel, the weather, the heat, the light, the sounds. You have to be comfortable with everything.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Batting
Bowling
Heat
Preparation
Weather
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On your debut, you just want to get into the game. I remember when I played my first Test, we bowled first and I went wicketless in the first innings. I felt like I was searching to make a contribution.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Contribution
Debut
Remember When
Innings
Searching
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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!
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Bloody
Notes
Preparing
Piles
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Opening the batting in Test cricket, facing up to fast bowlers looking to do their worst with a new, hard ball is incredibly tough. You have to be brave, single-minded and prepared to work very, very hard.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Batting
Brave
Cricket
Opening
Facing
Single-Minded
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This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Be Patient
Cricket
Entertaining
Far Away
Instinct
Patient
Reckless
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What we have learned is that Roland-Jones is a very promising prospect. Because of the way he bowls, he will not blow batsmen away, but is more likely to take wickets through accuracy and building pressure.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Accuracy
Blow
Bowls
Promising
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Indian fans probably warm to Tendulkar more, because he was their darling from a very young age and he is a class above anyone else in his team. But in any other generation Dravid would be there by himself.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Darling
Indian
Warm
Young Age
Above
Anyone Else
Generation
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By empowering players - not just players, but grown men - to think for themselves outside of the game, you hope that they will be more likely to adapt to a situation and seize the moment in a sporting contest.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Empowering
Adapt
Contest
Grown Men
Seize
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Rather than influence the media, I hope that my progress from player to correspondent shows that there is a role for former cricketers in the media, despite the intolerant views of some of my colleagues in the press box.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Colleagues
Despite
Former
Influence
Media
Player
Progress
Views
Box
Correspondent
Intolerant
Press
Role
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Acceptable
Banned
Hitting
Nonsense
Prancing
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Cricket
Lovely
Parks
Scenic
Streets
Underrated
Wide
Beaches
Terribly
Grounds
Nearby
Sprawling
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Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Bowling
Genuine
Pace
Release
Rhythm
Snaps
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A good commentator is someone who obviously people like listening to, who gets the blend between description, entertainment and accuracy of conveying the event right. If you can do that in an interesting way, you are a good commentator.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Accuracy
Conveying
Description
Good People Way
Blend
Commentator
Interesting Way
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Commentary
Cricket
Different Way
Flows
Slightly
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In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Belonged
Failed
Grab
Recalled
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The absolute key difference between television and radio is the ability of radio to communicate. With television you can watch the screen and your mind can be anywhere. On radio it requires a certain amount of discipline from the listener to follow what's being said.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Communicate
Discipline
Absolute
Listener
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Absent
Divorce
Fathers
Tough Time
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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.
Jonathan Agnew / Cricketer
Rhythm
Adjust
Great World Rest
Elite
Round
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