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"I hope the national selectors were watching."
Sourav Ganguly responding to Ramiz Raja's suggestion that he was like a school boy in the field during the Kolkata Knight Riders' stirring defence of a low total against the Delhi Daredevils
"I suppose you guys are doing us a favour in some ways."
New Zealand's Chris Martin is spurred on by the media expecting little from his side ahead of the first Test against England
"With due respect to Rahul Dravid's contribution to Indian and Karnataka cricket, I feel that it is high time that he took decisions on his own. While selecting a team there should be no friendship."
Dodda Ganesh, former Karnataka and India bowler, speaks out
"This is do or die. I will put myself in the Atlantic if we lose."
Afghanistan's coach Taj Malik Alam is keen for his side to qualify for the 2011 World Cup
"Find something else to do, lad. You'll never be good enough at cricket."
What Ryan Sidebottom was told by an unnamed coach when he was 14
"I don't give a damn what anyone says about that. What will be will be."
Michael Vaughan isn't listening to the comments about his poor batting putting his captaincy position under threat
"Luckily it was in my arc, so I closed my eyes and had a little swing at it and it went over the rope. It was my day."
Luke Wright explains how he reached his century against the New Zealanders with a six
"Somebody must bowl."
Commentator Tony Cozier is bothered because of the delay caused by the confusion regarding the overs bowled by the Bangalore Royal Challengers' two Kumars - Vinay and Praveen - against the Kolkata Knight Riders
"Why hire a lawyer who reputedly charges £10,000 a day just to get you off a £60 fine?"
Times' journalist Ross Clark questions the sense of Andrew Flintoff hiring the lawyer Nick Freeman, known as Mr Loophole, to get him out of a speeding fine
"The IPL has taken the game to virtually every house in the world."
Sachin Tendulkar holds forth on globalisation
"Once Shoaib sees the crowds, and of course the babes around, I think he will be able to perform."
Wasim Akram has a dig at Shoaib Akhtar
"I think there are a few people down there who are bitter about me leaving, but I'm not going to apologise for looking after No.1."
An unapologetic Simon Jones on life after leaving his home county Glamorgan
"To think of New Zealand cricket is to think of an afternoon in dullsville."
Journalist Stephen Brenkley can't wait for the international summer to get going
"Six weeks' razzle-dazzle enough to consign over a hundred years of Test cricket to the dump? You must be off your rocker."
David Gower makes his thoughts very clear in response to a journalist who asked if the IPL could help wipe out Test cricket
"I'm very, very happy now that Asia is running the game. The English had 100 years of it and did a pretty average job."
Former Australian allrounder Greg Matthews doesn't hold back punches
"As far as I am concerned, that was 20 runs too many, Why, perhaps even 47 runs too many."
Adam Gilchrist doesn't seem to have any regrets about finishing with a career average of 47.60
"If they want to talk about their life, they can, but not cricket."
Lalit Modi on the media gag imposed on IPL players, where they can only talk in pre- and post-match press conferences
"I left five minutes after the game. It was tight, but I understood there was always going be a flight. Our owners own the airport so things got through very quickly."
Daniel Vettori, now in England, had cut it tight, but all along he had his IPL franchise-owners to fall upon
"The ICC ... are in meltdown. This is an organisation with all the brains of a chocolate mouse."
Geoff Boycott with a clear message to those running the game
"The suggestion that the Indian Premier League is a runaway success has been completely manufactured. Even at this early stage, when the paint is still drying on the grounds, they are already giving away stacks of tickets."
Boycott again, this time not buying into the hype surrounding the IPL
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