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"Toit R strikes the first 100 of the 10th edition of BPL, what a knock he's played."
"He goes aerial, he's got hold of it, it will go all the way, first maximum of this innings."
"When you're in great form, you seem to find the gaps effortlessly."
"Magnificent batting from Shai Hope, wins it off of his own bat with another magnificent knock in his favorite format."
"Bangladesh have won the toss. What will you be doing and the reasons for it? I like to bowl first, looks a little moist on the wicket and expecting some swing."
"It's time to call it a day, being a fantastic day of test match cricket."
"He moves his left leg away, makes some room, and he really hit it well."
"Good use of the feet, got to the pitch of the delivery and went straight over the bowler's head."
"Absolutely brilliant, that's why he was there. What a catch!"
"That brings up the 50 for Arif, what an innings he is playing."
"You won't see a better catch, that was absolutely brilliant by Shumo."
"A confident shot from Anamul Haque Bijoy for four runs."
"He likes it, what a blow, what a strike by Parvez."
"Very pleased to be here...trying to play my best Cricket wherever I play."
"The roar out the [Music] banks onto the pads, nicely flicked away."
"Welcome runs, wide and four. Five welcome runs for Fortune Bor."
"That's a huge one, highly experienced. Good delivery, pitch on line, kept going."
"Comes down the wicket, goes aerial, and goes all the way. Amed Shazad is enjoying it in the middle, he's on fire."
"He's not thinking about singles... he's looking for boundaries."
"International cricket has returned to Pakistan, and internal tourism has witnessed a spike."
"The structure and the timing of domestic cricket needs a real overhaul. A blank piece of paper is needed."
"This catch leads India to win the World Cup, a high point in a country whose cricketing history has always mirrored India's emergence as a nation."
"That's a fantastic century any weekend in India. Evidence for the Indian love affair with cricket is everywhere."
"Some unbelievable catching and pieces of individual brilliance in the field."
"The skill of Jow's bat, the skill of Shubman Gill, Zak Crawley with the bat, or with the ball, Jimmy Anderson, 41 years of age, coming in and bowling the way he did, or Jasprit Bumrah, touched with genius."
"India coming back to level the series... I thought it was a great test match actually."
"Well, the India juggernaut rolls on, an unbelievable 17th consecutive series victory at home."
"He looked like he hadn't got a run for a year, he literally, a few days earlier, got 196 and got one of the great near double hundreds there has been."
"Test cricket will always remain because of the importance it brings to the game."
"Jimmy Anderson, all tribalism aside, is an absolute phenomenon."
"Spicy spicy week in the world of world cricket."
"I think there are guys like Josh Philippe, Josh Inglis. I still think Travis Head has got a Test match future."
"Learning lots of things I didn't know even after two years of doing cricket."
"Christopher Gayle has been one of our greatest batsmen ever in our time."
"His contribution to English Cricket especially Lancashire will always be remembered for his resilience and commitment to the game." - Tribute to Bob Ratcliffe
"He must have thought he was out caught behind."
"Maybe Australian cricket needed a heart replacement."
"The baggy green isn't a myth, it's a real symbol of exceptionalism."
"Your support of the great cricket has allowed it to be what it is."
"Virat Kohli is the best batsman on the planet, simple as that."
"The marketing of Cricket Australia could get better too."
"Australian cricket has got a chance to be great. But Cricket Australia has got to get their house in order. It starts at the top."
"Yeah, we needed to try and attract at least one England player, one of the best domestic England players in the country."
"If India win the world test Championship, do you think that would they would see some sort of increase in development of test Cricket generally speaking?"
"Test match cricket is alive and well all around the globe." - Joe Root
"Players on a cricket field are cricketers not Heroes."
"No one's a hero no one's a cheat everyone is just a cricketer in a cricket team."
"As sad as it is that it's gone tunnel up this has been an amazing two test matches."
"The true person will come out and show you who he is."
"Don't just blindly follow other individuals thinking that they know what they're talking about."
"At the end of the day, we're all going to stand in front of God."
"Look at New Zealand, you know, they play a terrific brand of cricket and they played in a great spirit. You don't have to be aggressive to win matches is, you know, my belief."
"The greatest determinant for dismissing somebody at anything below professional cricket is their own border or mental deficiencies."
"When you train in grade cricket you train in the nets for 10 minutes. I'll adventure that most innings in great cricket last between 10 and 20 minutes."
"I just feel like there's a window here because of the pink ball. No one really knows what's going to happen."
"Her Legacy will continue to inspire future generations of cricketers." - Tribute to Norma iard
"An onslaught has taken a liking to all the bowlers."
"Two of the most famous cricketers ever in the world - Sir Donald Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar."
"When the greatest batter in the modern game met the greatest of all time."
"There is no dispute about who was the greatest batsman ever and there is no dispute about who is the God of Cricket."
"We've seen Tendulkar and we should be very, very grateful for that."
"Nice movement straight back, check drive beautifully played."
"That's a cracking stroke, that's a goal gorgeous looking shot."
"Top notch, did the initially hard work, determination, great valuing his wicket."
"He's battered with a lot of control, composure, he left the ball well."
"A convincing performance with the ball for Sri Lanka, seers have taken all the 20 wickets."
"Now Cricket is hoping to break into the largest Sports Market in the world the US."
"Cricket has given everything to me, so I try to do something for them."
"Once I have that, the first eight years of my career... from then onwards, once I developed the doosra, I got about close to 700 wickets."
"I think it's gonna come to that stage now and uh I think it's going to be done together with England and Australia I do believe that because you want cricket to grow all over the world."
"Rohit has shown that he knows when to turn it up."
"If your results exceed your internal thermostat, you'll find a way to cool your life back down."
"India are crowned as champions of ICC Champions Trophy 2013."
"The last ball has been pumped by Bopara, he's gone really back into the crowd."
"The IPL... changed the game more than any other thing."
"Jimmy Anderson is England's greatest bowler."
"Fabulous batting from one of the greats of the game."
"When it truly comes to sport and the battle of sport and the elevation of cricket in community in India and Pakistan, literally cricket is a religion, so this becomes the holy grail of the sporting calendar literally."
"You know, I think the [ __ ] of world cricket is the sporting argument."
"Rahul Dravid is in line to take over the Indian top job of Indian coach."
"They've got the most powerful team in world cricket by distance."
"What's the future of Australian cricket? Kawaja scores 100. Does that mean he should captain Australia?"
"Unorthodoxy and improvisation in T20 cricket."
"This Indian side... I think it's the best one I've seen."
"That innings from Zach Crawley... was one of the best half centuries I've seen."
"He is by far the highest paid cricket player."
"He's basically trying to be the Michael Jordan of Indian cricket."
"Chris Morris came in and sealed it with a six, which is a cricketing version of a kiss."
"It took cricket to places where it doesn't normally get to. He was a one-off."
"Nicholas Pooran for me, world-class and number one pick for a reason."
"Box office cricket is guaranteed at the 100."
"Meg Lanning for me is a superstar cricketer."
"Beating India in India is a dream come true."
"It's the greatest ODI Innings of all time without question."
"Let's cut down cricket, get it down to a day, 20-20... That's what you want to see, high-intensity, high-action engaging sports to watch."
"Playing ashes cricket for me was the pinnacle."
"The relentlessness of the Indian bowlers was sensational."
"There'll be some incredible cricket, it'll be exciting."
"Makes me think that if all the Aussie players got to play in the Big Bash that competition would bang."
"Clark has hammered this down the ground that's high and high and six runs."
"If you play good cricket, you can win there."
"The IPL is literally the best players in the world in the most interesting format."
"The IPL should be the biggest competition in the world."
"The IPL has resumed. Rat Cole is going to step down as T20 captain."
"Lasith Malinga is no more in that he's still alive but he's not going to play cricket anymore."
"Pollard's innings, mate, it's goat stuff, one of the greatest IPL innings of all time."
"Australia are almost guaranteed a big score."
"It was one of those hours that only test cricket can give you."
"It was drama, it was brilliant, it was a great test match."
"For once someone threw a punch at a great bowling attack."
"That partnership with Stokes was so vital."
"I think he is one of our better batsmen and now he's got confidence."
"I've always thought that Johnny Bairstow is a very good keeper batsman for England."
"You can't just see this game through the lens of black and white statistics and figures."
"It's not just about statistics, this game."
"Cricket, even the word means fairness."
"We've got a chance, Root's one of the greatest players ever."
"We're doing a documentary on this wonderful island and the cricketers they've produced."
"The greatest skill for a player like me is to commit myself to try and hit a six and in case the ball is not what I thought it out to be, the ability to still find the boundary."
"The secrets to test cricket was to try and treat it as if you are the best player in the world and everyone else has to dance to your tune."
"I love playing with Monty. I'll always say he's got like a childlike innocence about him and just this love for cricket that is amazing."
"I just didn't see him as the finished article. He'd obviously been selected on raw talent and we could see that. But at that stage, we just wanted a spinner to hold an end up for Gough or Caddick or whatever and he didn't quite have that control."
"The only Indian test player to have died on the cricket field."
"He was the best leg spinner ever and changed the way that cricket has been viewed."
"He's once in a generation bowler for me."
"I love a T20 World Cup it is a short sharp quick tournament."
"He made slow bowling fashionable again; he made it cool."
"What a way to bring up three figures, Alastair Cook has done it."
"A century in his first ever test match and now a century in his last."
"Arms raised, a huge cheer from Matt Prior."
"Brilliant delivery from Harmison, a change of pace, surely it's all over now."
"T20 cricket is without question the hardest to guess or to predict what is going to happen."
"It's easy to criticize, but T20 cricket is so unpredictable."
"An onslaught on the bowling of Shane Warne."
"His best figures in Test match cricket."
"The Australians have pulled off one of the finest victories I've ever seen in Test cricket."
"What a stroke that is from Glenn Phillips."
"Do we play cricket in Australia? Do we play cricket? We're born playing cricket."
"A spinner versus a flipper, what a battle."
"Bob Willis was quite simply one of England's greatest ever fast bowlers."
"He hit two sixes off the middle of the bat."
"Could you flip on Monday night cricket please?"
"He is an Indian cricketing superstar, he of 80 test matches, over 3,800 test runs, 11 test centuries, 151 poles at an average of 40."
"What is important in T20 format is to take the wicket. Doesn't matter if it's a full toss, a short pitch, or a slower one. You have to be a bowler who can take wickets."
"So, my test average and strike rate are better than Michael's T20 average and strike rate. So, you're better than him."
"The most famous cricketing trophy of all reclaimed after 16 long years."
"The Australian cricket team may have just found itself again."
"The highest Australian ODI score in World Cup history, a one-of-a-kind innings in every sense of the word."
"Rian Parag, first uncapped player to 400 runs in the IPL."
"A measured Australian start in the first 10 overs was smashed apart."
"He's got his hands through the ball on the offside. That's what they do. Batsmen today, they see a short ball, they just throw their bat at it."
"Root with the bat, root with the ball. The cunning plan's worked."
"An incredible session of cricket, ill-tempered at times, comes to an end."
"Beautiful timing! That's racing away to the boundary for four!"
"How did Chris Gayle stop that? That's remarkable."
"Stumped! Another one goes down, Lara takes the catch."
"West Indies winning the opening game of this World Cup."
"Outstanding day for Dwayne Smith."
"Confirmation of the result, West Indies defeating Pakistan by 54 runs."
"Man of the match award went to Dwayne Smith."
"I'd love Test cricket to be 5 days. I'd love it to have stayed what it was in the 80s and the '90s."
"No matter what side of the KP debate you are on, there can be no doubting that Kevin Peterson the batsman was an absolute genius."
"As a batsman, he was pure box office and arguably the most talented ever to pull on an England shirt."
"In the 2005 Ashes series, Kevin Peterson scored his maiden Test century for England."
"He would go on to play over a hundred Test matches, scoring almost 14,000 international runs."
"Crashing it away through the covers, there's a sweeper out there, he might get to it, he may not though."
"My dreams don't involve cricket. I can't afford to have a dream that's got cricket in it."
"Magnificent batting from a great cricketer."
"I always had the belief that no matter what, I have to start playing Cricket. I don't know at what capacity and what time frame, but at the same time, I knew that I'm going to be back."
"That's a great shot from Ricky Ponting, rock back and just smash that through midwicket."
"What a great shot, Australian move onto 392 for four."
"That's a very good shot from Ricky Ponting, just slightly short of the length and quickly onto the back foot."
"Lovely shot, it's been a trait of Steve Waugh today, the straight driving off both the front and the back foot."
"This will be four more, no one out square leg full toss, put away beautifully."
"There's no doubt he has left his mark on English cricket."
"He's a leading run scorer in T20 Internationals across both teams. 307 runs at an average of 43, strike rate of 195, one century, and two 50s."
"He's an extraordinary T20 cricketer. Fifty matches, strike rate of 151. He's an out-and-out game breaker."
"It's not easy facing world-class off-spinners."
"This team would do for the rest of this World Cup would come to define the next decade of international ODI Cricket."
"They were only two wins away from taking the World Cup back home, but first they had to face this same South Africa team once again in the semis, in what is arguably the greatest ODI ever played."
"Well, there are certain players in the world that when you do nick it as a batsman, you don't want it to go to them."
"You must make the bowlers work jolly hard for the wickets like Lara did on this sort of pitch."
"Watching Cricket in the Caribbean, just fantastic sense of occasion and fun."
"A wonderful innings played like Chanderpal gutsy determined lots of concentration and patience."
"That's a trademark Laxman shot, it wasn't all that bad a delivery."
"He's got the placement dead right."
"It's a good time to bowl, these conditions are a little more favorable."
"He's been hovering around 128-130 k's, and on this particular pitch here in Amribad, it just comes onto the blade very very nicely."
"Real comedy of errors there and tragedy for India."
"That will call for the covers. This will be the second time the rains interrupted, but India going at great guns, run rate of 8.81." - Commentator
"The opening partner magnificent shot coming down the wicket seeing the ball seeing the fielder within the circle and that goes over the fielder's head for a well struck four." - Commentator
"I wanted us to play cricket that opposition teams when they played against us would walk away and say how can we beat those guys we just can't beat them."
"You always knew when Warney was on the field. Yeah, it was compelling, wasn't it? You had to watch because he knew something special was going to happen every single time."
"Without any doubt in my mind, Australia's greatest ever cricketer."
"You don't win those games without Warnie. You do not win those games without Shane Warne."
"Shane Warne changed the game forever. He was a regular bloke turning spin bowling into an art form."
"There was never a cricketer who was more about fun than Shane Warne."
"Warnie showed there was another way. All of a sudden, in our midst is this figure, this unlikely rather shambling figure with this uncanny gift."
"...you know it was almost inevitable he was going to take the hat trick."
"...the great thing about Shane Warne as a cricketer was particularly with ball in hand when a few of us would actually doubt that we could win the game that seemed to galvanize Warne."