Mickey Arthur - TMTM (thinking man's thinking man)

"If we can get into five and six when the ball is new, that will be good."

You don't say, Mickey. Would getting into 9 and 10 be even better?


"Also, there will be a cloud over a[n England] bowler knowing that Andrew Flintoff is likely to be fit for the second Test. ... If you've got a class performer, a fantastic cricketer like him available to you, I think you'd be silly not to select him. He's got to come back - and he's got to come back for somebody. Somebody will be unlucky. ... Within the whole pressure cooker of Test cricket, there might be one or two little personal contests going on in the England side."

Slight suspicion of mind games there, Mickey?

"... There is a lot of respect for Kevin in our dressing room. Those personal issues between Kevin and Graeme, certainly for Graeme, are water under the bridge. ... It's finished and done and dusted."

Finished done and dusted water under the bridge? ~ For Mick's sake, we could save the bother of the Test matches and put you up for single combat in cliches with our very own Mickey!

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There's some tasty soundbites leading up to this series.

"Kevin and I would get on a lot better if he kept his mouth shut."

Graeme Smith aims the opening salvo at Kevin Pietersen

Other good stuff on cricinfo:

"We hope you die choking on your own **** that you speak."
Scott Styris texts former team-mate Mark Richardson to let him know exactly what he thought of a critical article Richardson wrote

That Styris quote was hilarious.

He's ugly and angry!

"How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me."
Shoaib Akhtar, the last of Pakistan's gems, foretells a grim future

The best one. Never been more FIGJAMish.

"Once Shoaib sees the crowds, and of course the babes around, I think he will be able to perform."

(Wasim Akram)

"I suck Moores and Vaughan cock. They don't return the favour. They just whip me with a belt, call me a bad, bad boy, and inform me i'm batting at six"

Paul Collingwood on the England team selection process.

Henry wrote:"I suck Moores and Vaughan cock. They don't return the favour. They just whip me with a belt, call me a bad, bad boy, and inform me i'm batting at six"

Paul Collingwood on the Englanad team selection process.
Trev's recurring wet dream.

Fixed.

Mickey Arthur - TMTM

Had to read this a few times to realise he wasn't the 5th Ninja Turtle.

He isn't?