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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
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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
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
Good You Entertainment People Listening Way Someone Between Blend Like Obviously Commentator Accuracy Gets Interesting Conveying Interesting Way Who Description Event Right
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. Jonathan Agnew
Hope Game Crude Banal Commentary Itself Works
There are times when it's difficult to see your wife and her ex-husband sitting next to each other chatting away. Jonathan Agnew
Wife Difficult Other See Chatting Times Sitting Next Your Each Away Her
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
Work Exams Always Came Off Done Wanted Which Happily Much Should Meant Professional
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
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I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me. Jonathan Agnew
Me Living Broad Stuart He Road Since Known Up Child
If anyone ever accuses me of bias - on Twitter, say - they're blocked straight away. It simply isn't true. Jonathan Agnew
Me Twitter Say Simply True Bias Blocked Anyone Straight Away Ever
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
You Field Gone Too Cricket Head Knock Abuse Hear His Off Far
You can't now do county and international cricket and have a life. Jonathan Agnew
Life You Cricket County International Now
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
You Sit Young Down Spent Out Boring Some Stuff Hours Look Well Read Course Piles Bloody Going Notes Who Preparing
I'm not much of a reader; I'm more of a laptop person. I would never consider travelling without it. Jonathan Agnew
Consider Would More Never Reader Without Person Much Laptop Travelling
We go to Dubai quite a lot, so I've seen it being gradually ruined. Jonathan Agnew
Seen Dubai Ruined Go Lot Gradually Quite Quite A Lot Being
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel. Jonathan Agnew
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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
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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
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I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers. Jonathan Agnew
Three Cricket Summers Winters Did While Radio Playing
My relationship with my kids is the one sad area of my life. Jonathan Agnew
Sad Life Relationship My Life Kids Area
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