From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Cricket has so many meanings to so many Australians. It’s become precisely that - an Australian way of life. And what a life it is. Some would even go as far as to say, ‘marvellous’.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms.

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.