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

Cricket. Come summer holidays here in Australia not a whole lot else seems to matter. It's good stuff... Some would even go as far as to say, marvellous.

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.

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

When a cricketer gets hit in the private parts, he hopes the pain will go away very soon but the swelling doesn't!

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’.

The key thing was to learn the value of economy with words and to never insult the viewer by telling them what they can already see.