“Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket corresp...” — Jonathan Agnew Quote

“Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves - it's not all laid-on luxury travel.”

“Roland-Jones is a good, old-fashioned English seamer. He's not especially quick, but he pitches the ball up and swings it away, which is always dangerous.”

“For me, Test cricket at its best is all about ebb and flow of initiative, and it's always a fascinating moment of the match for me when one sides snatches it from the other.”

“As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.”

“That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.”

“The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.”

“I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel.”

“The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.”

“People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.”

“And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.”

“I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.”

“When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.”