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Jonathan Agnew
Jonathan Agnew
English Entertainer
Born: Apr 4, 1960
Any Cricket Game Good Time You
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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
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I think most cricket fans would accept that Dravid and Tendulkar are very different individuals but they are both great players. Jonathan Agnew
Great Fans Think Cricket Would Both Individuals Most Accept Very Different Players
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
You Travel Light Weather Preparation Consider Everything Batting About Bowling Comfortable Sounds Lots Heat Just Things
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
Great History You Mind Spring Holding Think Broad Stuart Shane Names Bowling Test Michael Figures
The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch. Jonathan Agnew
Art Freedom Responsibility Once Out Give Talent His Pitch Happens Coaching Player Bring
Tillakaratne Dilshan is innovative and scores quickly, while Upul Tharanga is neat and well organised - and left handed. Jonathan Agnew
Innovative Well Scores Left Handed Left-Handed Quickly While Organised Neat
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
You Energy See Some Look Any Going Against Captain Things Player
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
Hope You Game Will Men Situation Think More Seize Outside Likely Empowering Contest Just Themselves Moment Grown Grown Men Players Adapt
You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Jonathan Agnew
Adversity You Waiting Tell Someone Want Them Who
With new fast bowlers on the international circuit few and far between, it's always good to see someone new coming through. Jonathan Agnew
Good Few Circuit See Someone Through Between New Always Coming Far International Fast
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
Fault Word Circuit Perceived Particularly Bowling Around Spread Quickly Short Against International Player
Pietersen is an incredibly confident cricketer, almost brash. Jonathan Agnew
Incredibly Almost Brash Confident
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
Time You Long Long Time Stage Back Out Would Give Retired Know Lots Anything Us Playing
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
Luxury Pressure Too Does Leaving Get Many
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
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Archer has an incredible talent. He is one of those fast bowlers who makes it look easy. Jonathan Agnew
Incredible Those Easy He Talent Look Makes Who Fast
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate. Jonathan Agnew
You Earned Side One Thing Wins Seldom Equally Test Caution Err Handed Plate Thing
Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances. Jonathan Agnew
Cricket Respecting Circumstances About Test Opposition Conditions
When you are at the top, teams raise their game to play against you, breathing down your neck because they want what you have. Jonathan Agnew
You Game Down Top Because Want Against Breathing Your Teams Play Raise Neck
No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it. Jonathan Agnew
Drop Everyone No-One Done Means
There is no other job in major sport like a cricket captain. It is a huge job. Jonathan Agnew
Job Other Cricket Major Like Sport Huge Captain
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
Time You Game Own Difficult Starts Other Worries Pressures Because Decay Same Gets Same Time Your Captain
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
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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
Achievement Will Broad Way Would Stuart Take He Come Ball Nonetheless Test Did Wanted Fantastic Tom
Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist. Jonathan Agnew
Cricket Television Would Would-Be Without Poorer Coexist Two
We don't cover too many draws in Test cricket and its great: it means the cricket is more interesting, more exciting. Jonathan Agnew
Great Too Cricket Draws More Exciting Test Cover Interesting Means Many
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